Overview

The short groin stretch targets the inner thighs. The inner thighs work to adduct (bring together) the legs. The adductors include the pectineus, adductor brevis and adductor longus and the gracilis and adductor magnus. The inner thigh muscles are used in many sports such as, sprinting, playing football, and horse riding. The short groin stretch target the short adductors which go from the pelvis to the thigh bone.

Description

• Sit with the bottom of your feet placed against each other, knees out to the sides
• Keeping your back straight, lean as far as you can forward at the hips

Mistakes

• Rounding the back
• Not keeping the knee out and down