How To - Abductor Raises (Lying & Standing)

Lateral or abductor raises can be done lying or standing. It's going to target the outside of the hip a lot. You start with some lightweight, pulling that toe up toward you the entire time. This bottom leg can, you can have a straight under you. I like to put it out in front of me to give me some more stability.

The side body. You want to keep your obliques active. You're not, you're not relaxed here. You're staying nice and active, lifting your body off the side, keeping your core nice and tense. We're going to isolate this movement to the hip. So I'm not looking for you to completely crunch down the side of the body here.

You keep it nice and stable, lifting that leg as high as you can, keeping it all in the hip and then back down slowly. You can also play with different rotations here. You can turn your your knee outward. So you're going to hit more of the back side of the hip, a little bit of the quad, or you can turn it inward.

Hit the outside of the hip. TFL right here, the tensor fascia lot. Now when standing, same thing, you want to get yourself nice and stable, core neutral. Not, you're not arched like this, core is neutral. You're going to lift that leg out to the side as far as you can without crunching down the side body.

None of this. Keep it nice and upright, reaching that head up to the ceiling. Out to the side, you can rotate from the hip, so I'm rotating that knee outward. That's going to hit a lot more of the quad. Good stuff. Outer hip and turning it inward. It's going to hit a lot more of the TFL. So neutral, rotate in, rotate out, have fun with this start light.

If you notice all these videos, this is an eight pounder. You don't need a lot of weight for this stuff when you're doing it correctly. And you're not, you're not just getting things moving. We're not kipping the movement. We're keeping it isolated to the joint.