Adductor mobility can be crucial for preventing injury if you play certain sports.
Unfortunately, training these muscles often gets overlooked. Add in this one simple, closed-chain move to your routine to improve adductor mobility, improve adductor strength, and keep you playing pain-free.
Any other Mortal Kombat fans out there? If you also grew up on the game, the adductor move I’ll teach you today might give you a little nostalgia.
Remember how Liu Kang would throw the flying dropkick across the screen? That’s basically the setup and inspiration for this move. I didn’t realize as a kid playing the game that Liu Kang must have been really training his adductor mobility to pull off these moves.
The unfortunate truth is adductors are usually neglected - that is, until they get injured. Adductor strains are common injuries, particularly in sports like hockey, soccer, rugby… anything where you’ve got to maintain stability as you sprint and cut to change directions quickly. These sports place big eccentric demands on the adductors.
In eccentric motions, the muscle has to contract while lengthening. If you never focus on training your adductor strength or mobility, it’s all too easy to injure them in these situations.
Pay especially close attention to the descent or eccentric portion of this exercise. Because eccentric motions are where most injuries occur, it’s well worth your time to make sure you’re strong and stable in these kinds of movements.
This exercise will help build serious resilience in your adductors and help prevent injury. And maybe even help you throw some sick kicks like Liu Kang if martial arts is your thing.
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