Abductor Squats

Professional Rationale
A complex closed chain exercise that engages all major muscle groups in the lower extremity. When done correctly it promotes the proper neuromuscular firing patterns especially for walking and running. It helps to promote proper glut engagement of the stance leg.

Client Rationale
This is an exercise used to help strengthen your quadriceps and gluteus muscles. It also helps to strengthen your hip abductors, and adductors, making it a very functional exercise. It helps all the muscles in the your hips and legs to communicate with one another.



Instructions

• Start with feet no more than hip distance apart.
• Place ball just above your knee.
• Push you knee into the ball as if you are trying to rotate it outwards.
• Maintain that pressure as you complete a 1/4 squat with the opposite leg.
• Return slowly.
• Do not allow the ball leg to rotate out.
• Do not bend your knee more than 25-30 degrees.

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