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This exercise can help expose an imbalance as well as help restore even tensions between sides. 

If the portion of the sling containing the abdominal obliques is weak or slack, other sections of the line need to take up that slack.

Think of these muscles like a brake controller.  The opposing tension helps create space easing the joint into place as it moves.

The position of the femur (thigh bone), being the bone resting on top of the tibia transferring load down the chain will affect the tibia.

Loading one leg at a time maximizes the use of the muscles we are targeting.

It is an easy exercise to get lazy with and perform incorrectly stealing away its benefits.

The positioning allows you to incorporate core, glute and hamstring activation working on full body engagement and muscle sequencing.

This video explains a simple 4 position exercise sequence that will hit all the varying actions of this muscle group.

If you don’t have healthy adductors, you won’t have healthy glutes and you’ll probably suffer from back pain.

Our hips/core region of the body is a central intersection that everything else connects with in some way shape or form.