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Banded Standing Hip Abduction form guide
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Banded Standing Hip Abduction

Works your glutes with help from obliques.

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How to do it

  1. 1Loop a mini band around your ankles and stand tall, holding something light for balance.
  2. 2Shift your weight onto one leg and keep that knee soft.
  3. 3Push the other leg straight out to the side, toes pointing forward.
  4. 4Bring it back slowly. Finish all reps, then switch legs.

Muscles worked

Front
Back
GlutesObliques

Get it right

  • Toes point forward, not up
  • Torso stays upright
  • Slow on the way back

Avoid this

  • Leaning the body to the opposite side
  • Turning the toes up so the hip flexor takes over
  • Swinging the leg