Legs · Foam Roller · Isolation · Intermediate
Iliotibial Tract-SMR
Primary
- Main muscles
- Abductors
How to do it
- Lay on your side, with the bottom leg placed onto a foam roller between the hip and the knee. The other leg can be crossed in front of you.
- Place as much of your weight as is tolerable onto your bottom leg; there is no need to keep your bottom leg in contact with the ground. Be sure to relax the muscles of the leg you are stretching.
- Roll your leg over the foam from you hip to your knee, pausing for 10-30 seconds at points of tension. Repeat with the opposite leg.
Swaps on other equipment
Each has the abductors as its main muscle, on a different piece of equipment.
Other abductor exercises
- Hip Circles (prone) · Bodyweight
- IT Band and Glute Stretch · Other
- Lying Crossover · Bodyweight
- Monster Walk · Bands
- Standing Hip Circles · Bodyweight
- Thigh Abductor · Machine
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