Seated Leg Adduction with an Exercise Ball

"ALICE MONSAERT: This exercise is going to target the adductor muscles which are the inner thigh. I'm going to show this in various positions. First is seated on the ball. The knees have to point down directly towards the ground, so you're tucking your toes behind you, and again working on your spine alignment, sitting up nice and tall, and the action is just squeezing the inner thighs together. Obviously, I have a large surface in the center here so I'm squeezing in on the ball, tightening the adductors and strengthening the inner thigh. A variation of this exercise would be lying in a supine position which is face up and take the stability ball, place it between the knees. You have to hold on so that it doesn't pop out but keep your feet on the floor and it's the same exercise, squeezing with the inner thigh. The knees are coming together on the ball. To advance this, make it a little bit harder, going to take my legs up in the air. And because I have a longer lever, it's going to make the resistance and intensity on the inner thighs a little bit more challenging. So it doesn't look like a lot's happening but as I'm pushing in, I'm creating that concentric contraction in the inner thighs and really strengthening those adductor muscles."