Side bridge hip abduction
Abductors Bodyweight
How to do it
- 1Lie on your side with legs stacked.
- 2Support yourself on your forearm, keeping the elbow directly under the shoulder.
- 3Engage your core and lift your hips off the floor, forming a straight line from head to feet.
- 4Keeping the core tight, lift the top leg as high as possible without rotating the hips.
- 5Pause briefly at the top, then lower the leg back down.
- 6Repeat for the desired number of reps, then switch sides.
More abductors exercises
- Straight leg outer hip abductorBodyweight
- Lever seated hip abductionLeverage machine
- Resistance band seated hip abductionResistance band
- Side hip abductionBodyweight
See it moving
In the app every exercise comes with its animation and the muscle marked on the body, with the set timer and the rests counted.
See NiudThis page is for information and doesn’t replace a professional. If you have an injury or a medical condition, ask first. Data from the open catalogue hasaneyldrm/exercises-dataset, MIT licence.

