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Abduction Chop

The isotonic version of the Abduction hold, the Abduction Chop is a good way to develop greater capacity in the lateral (outside) of the hip, primarily the hip abductors like gluteus medius. This exercise has been vilified previously due to it's lack of shear loading however for specifically targeting the gluteus medius muscle, and developing the muscles capacity there are not many exercises that are better.

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