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Stand on one leg and lean your upper body slightly forward while keeping your back straight. Extend the free leg behind you so that your torso and leg form roughly one line. Slowly open your hip to the side by rotating your pelvis and upper body in a controlled way. Then close the hip again and return to the starting position.
The movement should mainly come from the hip. Keep your standing foot stable and avoid letting your knee collapse inward.
Muscles
Primary muscles
- Glutes
Secondary muscles
- Hamstrings
- Calves (gastrocnemius)
- Soleus
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Description and images from the open wger exercise database, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (authors: wger.de, TobiasFalk). Translations by Calix are shared under the same license. Muscle diagrams: wger project (AGPL-3.0).