“Adduction” refers to bringing parts of your body (in this case, your legs) toward your body’s midline. Think of adduction as “adding” a body part to your center. Your adductors consist of 5 muscles: ...

Why Should You Work Out Your Inner Thighs? It’s important for everyone to work out their inner thigh muscles. Exercises that strengthen your inner thighs also build muscle and help shape your legs.

Building inner thigh strength improves balance and helps prevent hip and back problems — plus more health tips from the One ...

Toning and strengthening the inner thigh is absolutely possible, and the best part is, it's about more than just aesthetics. Strong adductors (the muscles in this area) are key for the stability of ...

A lot of runners will be familiar with the dreaded groin strain: a tenderness around the groin area or inner thigh that can feel like a sharp, twinging pain. Although not a serious injury, groin ...

“Not only do the inner thighs help support stability, but these muscles are a big part of your hip flexion and extension,” Rees says. That means, during your gait, the inner thighs help you drive your ...

An inner thigh workout can benefit your whole body. This is because this area is so important in everyday movement. It’s cool how your muscles work together to help you move, right? When you work on ...

Weak adductors can lead to lower back pain, hip discomfort or knee problems. Dana Santas’ third in a five-part series explains why not to overlook your inner thighs.

On an episode of "Good Moves," Brian Spencer of East River Pilates demonstrates an 11-minute inner thigh workout based in Pilates. The inner thighs are not an easy muscle group to target and ...

Everyone deals with random aches and pains from time to time. But when it comes to a sharp pain in the front of your thigh, there are several possible causes. The pain may be due to muscle injury, ...

(CNN) — When most people think of training their legs, they focus on quads, hamstrings and calves. The inner thighs rarely get the same attention. Yet your adductors — the muscles along your inner ...