It’s easy to make fun of the hip abductor machine.
It involves sitting down, pressing your knees against the pad, and pushing the legs apart. It’s the ultimate “don’t you dare maintain eye contact” kind of exercise. There is no barbell bending, no plates crashing, and that is enough for some to label it a fluff exercise and move on.
Then there is the “functional” crowd. Critics argue the machine has little carryover to anything that matters. Then the hip abductor machine gets pushed into the same corner as its relative, the hip adduction machine.
But muscles don’t care about looking cool or athletic. They care about getting stronger. The hip…
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