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Technique

  1. Start on all fours with a flat back.
  2. Keeping your knee on the ground, rotate your lower leg outward to create internal rotation at the hip.
  3. Return to center and repeat.

Form tips

  • Do not let your hips shift to the side.
Logging: Repetitions done on one side.

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Glutes

Secondary

  • Pelvis
  • Hamstrings
  • Gluteus minimus
  • Gluteus medius

Equipment

Appears in

Joint movements
trains stretches
e10c

Reverse clamshell

Beginner
e0i9

Active 90-90

Novice
e17s

Standing hip axial rotation

Beginner
e0q7

Corkscrew squat

Intermediate
e0q6

Butterfly squat

Advanced
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