Squat Band Hip Abduction | Illustrated Exercise Guide

Primary muscles: Glutes, hips, outer thighs
Secondary muscles: Core, lower back, calves
Equipment: Resistance band

Squat Band Hip Abduction Instructions

1. Place a resistance band around both ankles, keep your feet shoulder-width apart, and squat.
2. As you stand up, switch your weight to the left leg and raise your right leg out to the side.
3. Return to the squat position and then repeat with the left leg.

Proper Form And Breathing Pattern

Engage your core and as you squat, keep your hips back and don’t let your knees extend beyond the toes. Exhale as you stand back up, raise your leg out to the side, and keep your spine aligned.

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Exercise Benefits

The squat band hip abduction is a dynamic exercise that helps tone and sculpts your glutes, hips, and outer thighs. This exercise also improves your balance, athletic performance and helps strengthen the hip abductors, which are crucial for stabilization and injury prevention.

Squat Band Hip Abduction Demonstration

Sets And Reps

Do 1 to 3, 60-second sets. To further engage your hips and outer thighs, pair the squat band hip abduction with the side plank hip abduction, the standing open the gate and the curtsy lunge.

Calories Burned

To calculate the number of calories burned doing the squat band hip abduction, enter your weight and the duration of the exercise:

Related Lower Body Exercises

Try these other lower body exercises to strengthen, sculpt and tone your thighs, hips, legs and glutes:
Good mornings
Hip external rotation
Lateral band walk
Lateral walk

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