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The Adductor Magnus Contributes to Hip Extension
If you're lifting your legs higher than that and Shala boss, it's not coming from that pure hip extension or hyper extension, you're getting some lumbar extension as well. Like a bat like a backband and the spine is probably adding in if if the legs are higher than really it's like an inch a couple of few inches. For pure hip extension. It's not a lot. Right. Yeah. As we talked about in our episode on the glutes, we kind of detailed back quite a bit what the glutes do,. The posterior fibers of gluteus medius and maybe minimus also contribute to hip extension. And more so with the knee flexed
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