Pectineus
Anatomy, function and the kettlebell exercises that train the pectineus.
- Body region
- Thigh (medial)
- Muscle group
- Adductors
What the pectineus does
Hip flexor and adductor, deep anterior-medial.
Kettlebell exercises that train the pectineus
25 exercises from our biomechanical library, ordered by how primarily they load this muscle.
- Sots Press with Supportstabilizer
- Ribbonsstabilizer
- Double Kettlebell Wide Stance Tucked Rowstabilizer
- Single Arm Stiff-Legged Flared Bent-Over Rowstabilizer
- Double Kettlebell Narrow Stance Tucked Rowstabilizer
- Double Kettlebell Narrow Stance Flared Rowstabilizer
- Double Arm Rowstabilizer
- Russian Twiststabilizer
- Gorilla Rowstabilizer
- Single Arm Bent-Over Rowstabilizer
- Double Kettlebell Sots Press with Rotationstabilizer
- Single Arm Dead Start Swingsnatchstabilizer
- Turkish Get-Upsecondary
- Double Kettlebell Reverse Ninety-Ninety Get-Upsecondary
- Double Kettlebell Ninety Ninety Get-Upsecondary
- Double Kettlebell Racked Curtsy Get-Upsecondary
- Single Arm Reverse Curtsy Get-Upsecondary
- Double Kettlebell Racked Surrendersecondary
- Gorilla Curlsecondary
- Ninety-Ninety Windmillsecondary
- Double Kettlebell Surrendersecondary
- Double Arm Static Squat Dead Curlsecondary
- Double Kettlebell Static Squat Dead Curlsecondary
- Single Arm Surrendersecondary
- Double Kettlebell Sumo Deadliftsecondary
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