Adductors · Body weight · Beginner
How to do Side Lying Hip Adduction
The side lying hip adduction (male) is a bodyweight exercise targeting the adductors, performed while lying on your side and lifting the top leg upward.
- Primary muscle
- Adductors
- Also works
- Glutes and Hamstrings
- Equipment
- Body weight
- Level
- Beginner
- Category
- Legs
How to do Side Lying Hip Adduction, step by step
- Lie on your side with your legs straight and stacked on top of each other.
- Place your bottom arm under your head for support.
- Engage your adductors and lift your top leg as high as possible without rotating your hips or leaning backward.
- Pause for a moment at the top, then slowly lower your leg back down to the starting position.
- Repeat for the desired number of repetitions, then switch sides.
Muscles worked
Side Lying Hip Adduction works your adductors as the main mover, with help from your glutes and hamstrings.
Track Side Lying Hip Adduction in SPLYT
Side Lying Hip Adduction is already in SPLYT’s exercise library. Log your sets, reps and weight on iPhone or Apple Watch, with last time’s weights already filled in.
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