Skip to main content
Also known as: Side-lying leg lifts.

​
Technique

  1. Lie on your side and cross your top leg over the bottom one, placing the foot on the floor.
  2. Lift your bottom leg straight off the ground as high as possible.
  3. Lower it with control and repeat.

​
Form tips

  • Keep the working leg fully extended.
Logging: Repetitions done on one side.

​
Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Hip adductors
Flexibility

Primary

  • Glutes

Secondary

  • Pelvis
  • Adductor longus
  • Adductor brevis
  • Adductor magnus
  • Gracilis

​
Equipment

Ground (hands or body)
Ground (hands or body)

​
Appears in

Strength
Flexibility
Joint movements
Hipadduction
trains stretches
e19p

Hip hike

Beginner
e165

Banded hip adduction

Beginner
e0e8

Sitting piriformis leg raise

Beginner
e0vn

Half cross-leg spinal twist

Beginner
e0x1

Sitting piriformis leg raise hold

Beginner
Want to log this exercise? Open it in Calistree. Text and images are used under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; the video plays from the original source.