The full text from your training manual is below in case you’d like a deep dive, but here is an overview:

• The adductors are basically your inner thigh muscles (Pectineus, Adductor magnus, Adductor brevis, Adductor longus, Gracilis). 
• A trick to help you differentiate between adductors and abductors: think of abductors as “abducting” your leg away from your midline (outer thigh muscles). The adductors pull your leg in toward your midline. 
• We engage the muscles during any ball squeezes, plie sweeps, and the inward motion of glute dives. Anything that moves your legs toward each other.  
• These muscles help to stabilize the hips and pelvis.

How to incorporate information about these into class:

• Muscle group: In these ball squeezes during power base, you are using your adductors to press in on the ball. These are your inner thigh muscles, opposing the outer thigh/hip muscles, the abductors. When you squeeze the ball, you’re not only strengthening the hip adductors, which stabilizes your hip and pelvis, but you’re strengthening all the way into your pelvic floor and abdominals. 
• Section: We spend the majority of leg work in small range movements, which fires the slow twitch muscle fibers to build lean muscle. These are your endurance muscles.You’ll notice a burst here and there of large range movements, which increases your heart rate and fires your fast twitch muscle fibers. These are your power muscles. We balance working the quads and hamstrings with the abductors and adductors, which are your inner and outer thighs. Each movement is intentional to provide a balanced workout that will strengthen all parts of your leg. 

Pectineus, Adductor magnus, Adductor brevis, Adductor longus, Gracilis (hip adductors)

Function:

• Adduct, inward/outwardly rotate hip (pectineus helps flex hip)
  • Includes groin, stabilizes leg when weight bearing

Postures used in class:

• Plie Sweeps
• Leg Circles
• Ball Squeezes
• Inside motion of Hip Abductors and Glute Dives

Stretches used in class:

• Happy baby, Straddle stretch, Garland pose/wide low crouch

Cues / “True40 Truths”:

• “Pull through your inner thighs to draw legs back to your midline.”
• “These are strong stabilizers of the leg and pelvis.”