Inner thigh exercises...what are yours?

[AdamKralic]

Title says it all...need a more solid horse stance plus the more important overall balance of the muscles.

I imagine doing more horse stance in and of itself would help...what else?

[BlackKnight]

What's make you think it's the inner thigh?

There are three components to stances.

1. Stamina

2. Strength

and

3. Flexibility.

To make them stable you need strength. Contrary to popular belief sitting in a particular stance for long periods of times isn't going to make then stronger. It will give you the stamina to stay in it and may make easier and more comfortable to get it in it, but not stronger.

The best thing for stances is a combination of strength training, i.e. weight training, in conjunction with stretching.

I like the standard leg weight training routines like squats, bench step ups, and/or weighted lunges. I also like some of the kettlebell routines.

Just work at it and good luck.

[bushido_man96]

Squats and lunges will probably help out that leg strength.

[AdamKralic]

Thanks guys.

One of Zach's trainers has them do squats on their heels (toes off floor) so as to make sure the center of balance/pressure is off the knees.

Also Zach does a lot of jumping type exercises that (I believe...please correct me if I am wrong) do more for the "outer" muscles of the thigh. Stuff like reaching for ceiling and jumping up n down in a rapid succession. Box Jumps. Feet together and jumping back and forth sideways.

We added lying on back with knees bent up while holding a medicine ball between knees and squeezing it. Will add some lunges. We did do squats with weights before...hmmm we stopped because my bench is in a different location from where we workout. I'll have to google dumbell squats.

[bushido_man96]

Google "goblet squats."

[sensei8]

I use a grappling dummy, and I squeeze it over and over while doing "sets" at different tensions and durations. Isometric tensioning drills against my inner as well.

[Hawkmoon]

It s an old thread but...inner thigh is an attack area because its hard to build up and so makes 'knocking' the other guy down really easy!

conditioning is much of what I/we do in Kyokushin.

have someone kick your inner thigh..not hard...grief no.

Have them kick softly and build after a few kicks you find a level a weight of kick that is just about ok.

Stay at that level for a while.

Also, consider leg lifts with a ball held between your ankles.....p.s. want to work faster make the ball a medicine ball!

Not seen them in ages, maybe they flopped in sales or moved on to some other design, but see if you can find it or what it became; get a 'bull' worker/bar.

Like the ones you get for your arms but this one was strapped to your knees!

enjoy!