Cable hip abduction

Sets, reps and RIR

Machines and cables hold the path for you, so you can work closer to failure than with free weights.

RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.

Muscles worked

Primary: Abductors.

Secondary: Glutes.

Estimate your one-rep max

Epley's formula, from a set you have actually done. It is an estimate, and it drifts above eight reps, so keep the input between one and twelve.

What it is called elsewhere

• Norwegian Abduksjon (kabel)
• Swedish Abduktion (kabel)
• Danish Abduktion (kabel)
• German Abduktion (Kabelzug)
• Spanish Abducción de cadera (polea)
• Italian Abduzioni dell'anca ai cavi
• Portuguese Abdução de quadril (polia)
• Russian Отведение ноги в сторону на блоке
• French Abduction de hanche (poulie)

Related legs exercises

• Squat (barbell)
• Front squat
• Box squat
• Lunges (barbell)
• Hip thrust (barbell)
• Good morning

athlate logs this exercise, keeps the numbers, and tells you what you lifted last time.