About to max out on Hip Adduction machine

**scherzo** · 09-15-2006, 02:05 PM

I got back into weight training only a couple months ago. Everything is going well; I'm making progress on all my lifts and putting on some weight. Thing is, in these past few months I've managed to near just about the limit of the adduction machine. I'm squeezing 170lbs and the machine only has 180. Oh, and I only weigh 150lbs. So I'm really looking for advice here. I don't want freakishly large inner thighs. Do I lay off the adduction? Just keep going by adding plates after I've maxed the machine? Keep training them without increasing the weight? Add more reps? Thanks in advance.

**Rachel_n_SD** · 09-15-2006, 02:08 PM

dude, that machine is the biggest damn waste of time in the gym. and there is no possible way it could ever give you "freakishly large thighs" lol.

how about squatting and deadlifting? just a thought.

**rgreen** · 09-15-2006, 02:09 PM

Don't do hip adductions?

**pali012** · 09-15-2006, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by scherzo

I got back into weight training only a couple months ago. Everything is going well; I'm making progress on all my lifts and putting on some weight. Thing is, in these past few months I've managed to near just about the limit of the adduction machine. I'm squeezing 170lbs and the machine only has 180. Oh, and I only weigh 150lbs. So I'm really looking for advice here. I don't want freakishly large inner thighs. Do I lay off the adduction? Just keep going by adding plates after I've maxed the machine? Keep training them without increasing the weight? Add more reps? Thanks in advance.

Please do not post below this line

**Lencho** · 09-15-2006, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by rgreen

Don't do hip adductions?

Bingo.

**scherzo** · 09-15-2006, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by Rachel_n_SD

dude, that machine is the biggest damn waste of time in the gym. and there is no possible way it could ever give you "freakishly large thighs" lol.

how about squatting and deadlifting? just a thought.

I squat, but I don't see how squatting and adduction are the same motion. Yes, squatting will use the adductors as synergists and stabilizers.

And I definitely don't think it's a waste of time. Many years ago I tore my adductor in my right thigh pretty good while training at a kung fu school. For many years I had been easy on it because it was prone to injury again. Exerting a significant amount of stress on it would cause it to swell. Now, because I'm eating right and training it like my other muscles, I feel it's finally back in shape.

I just was curious what people did with their adductors. Nothing, something. Ya know?

**TheVirtualTaco** · 09-15-2006, 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by scherzo

I got back into weight training only a couple months ago. Everything is going well; I'm making progress on all my lifts and putting on some weight. Thing is, in these past few months I've managed to near just about the limit of the adduction machine. I'm squeezing 170lbs and the machine only has 180. Oh, and I only weigh 150lbs. So I'm really looking for advice here. I don't want freakishly large inner thighs. Do I lay off the adduction? Just keep going by adding plates after I've maxed the machine? Keep training them without increasing the weight? Add more reps? Thanks in advance.

How long have you had a vagina?

**scherzo** · 09-15-2006, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by TheVirtualTaco

How long have you had a vagina?

Oh, so I'm a girl because I want to train all the muscles on my body? Let's just say that I'm training my adductors so I can crush your skull the next time you to try to suck my dick, ***got.

**Ragnar13** · 09-15-2006, 02:43 PM

Wow, you got 9 posts and are already calling people names. Oh right, "they started it". Dude, I am confused, you make a quasi-statement question about the fact that your maxing out on the hip adduction machine and people tell you to move on and you get mad.

Look, if you rehabed and injury and are using 170lbs, chances are your torn adductor is healed and better than ever. It is safe to do other leg exersizes and seriously fatigue the hell out of your legs as a hole, then hit your precious adduction machine.

Don't want to build freakishly large inner thighs.....still laughing at that.

**Hunter86** · 09-15-2006, 02:46 PM

Those machines are for girls.

**scherzo** · 09-15-2006, 02:50 PM

I appreciate it when people tell me what they think. I don't get mad that most of you think adductions are useless. In fact, it makes me consider not doing them. But if some dude comes out and says I have a vagina, that's different. Here I am asking for help, admitting that I don't know everything.

**waywardryan** · 09-15-2006, 02:50 PM

Is that the Yes/No machine? If it is that is indeed for girls.

**dbcb314** · 09-15-2006, 02:53 PM

some of you idiots need to quit parroting ****

since he mentioned "squeezing" i am gonna assume he means the "no" machine.

this is one of the only ways to train your inner thighs... seriously... you wont huge and complete legs? you are probably gonna need this machine.

dont believe me... go look at DC... he advocates this machine FOR ADVANCED bb'ers that compete.

should this dude be doing this machine? probablyl not. but it certaining is NOT a worthless peice of **** like some of you stupid parrots keep saying. why dont you try reading at other, more advanced sights for once. some of you are ****ing retarded.

**Rachel_n_SD** · 09-15-2006, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by dbcb314

some of you idiots need to quit parroting ****

since he mentioned "squeezing" i am gonna assume he means the "no" machine.

this is one of the only ways to train your inner thighs... seriously... you wont huge and complete legs? you are probably gonna need this machine.

dont believe me... go look at DC... he advocates this machine FOR ADVANCED bb'ers that compete.

should this dude be doing this machine? probablyl not. but it certaining is NOT a worthless peice of **** like some of you stupid parrots keep saying. why dont you try reading at other, more advanced sights for once. some of you are ****ing retarded.

i'm not parroting anything, that **** really is useless.

i'm a girl, i did that bull**** for years, i maxed out on the stack easily and never saw any development in my thighs until i started using freeweights.

**tarun_s** · 09-15-2006, 02:56 PM

hmm...i use that machine. i've got extremely weak adductors and thats one of the machines i use to strengthen it...

anyway. its pretty flippin hard. with a fraction of the weight i use to squat too.

**TheVirtualTaco** · 09-15-2006, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by scherzo

I want to train all the muscles on my body... so I can... suck my dick

So, you like to train all the muscles of your body? How do you like to work your anal sphincter muscle? Judging from your comments above and obvious homosexual proclivities, I'm guessing it's through repeated anal penetration.

Seriously, if you're hell bent on continuing this exercise, see if your gym has the rectangular weights that you can stack on top of the normal weight stack. That may be good for 10-20 lbs.

Insults and information. Welcome to bb.com.

**Lencho** · 09-15-2006, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by dbcb314

but it certaining is NOT a worthless peice of **** like some of you stupid parrots keep saying. why dont you try reading at other, more advanced sights for once. some of you are ****ing retarded.

Hmm? Advanced bodybuilders use the adduction machine, so it's not worthless. But advanced bodybuilders do flyes, and somehow those are worthless? Interesting.

**TheVirtualTaco** · 09-15-2006, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by dbcb314

why dont you try reading at other, more advanced sights for once. some of you are ****ing retarded.

You should take some of your own advice so, when you offer up gems like:

Originally Posted by dbcb314

db rows are crap

you can actually back up your argument with sound reasoning.

**dbcb314** · 09-15-2006, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by Lencho

Hmm? Advanced bodybuilders use the adduction machine, so it's not worthless. But advanced bodybuilders do flyes, and somehow those are worthless? Interesting.

no one on here said (except rachel) "abductor machine is worthless for me" they just said "it is worthless"

it does have a use for SOME use advanced bodybuilders to build inner thighs

flyes were worthless FOR ME... that thread asked for YOUR opinion... that was MY opinion. this thread did not ask for OUR opinoin on this machine.

**dbcb314** · 09-15-2006, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by TheVirtualTaco

You should take some of your own advice so, when you offer up gems like:

you can actually back up your argument with sound reasoning.

I got up to 105lbs for sets of 8 with db rows with good form (the coaches sat there and watched our form bc it was easy to cheat)

my back was not big, my back was not strong

therefore, i have concluded they are crap. if you like them, fine, do them, i dont care. they didnt work for me, therefore they are crap for me.

**TheVirtualTaco** · 09-15-2006, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by dbcb314

I got up to 105lbs for sets of 8 with db rows with good form (the coaches sat there and watched our form bc it was easy to cheat)

my back was not big, my back was not strong

therefore, i have concluded they are crap. if you like them, fine, do them, i dont care. they didnt work for me, therefore they are crap for me.

That is a much better argument. Now people know the reasoning behind your opinion.

**pali012** · 09-15-2006, 03:39 PM

No offense to the poster, but if you are 150 lbs and can max out a a machine, you are either an EXTREMLEY strong dude, or, more likely, the machine is built like crap.

**JCVP** · 09-15-2006, 04:04 PM

Originally Posted by scherzo

I got back into weight training only a couple months ago. Everything is going well; I'm making progress on all my lifts and putting on some weight. Thing is, in these past few months I've managed to near just about the limit of the adduction machine. I'm squeezing 170lbs and the machine only has 180. Oh, and I only weigh 150lbs. So I'm really looking for advice here. I don't want freakishly large inner thighs. Do I lay off the adduction? Just keep going by adding plates after I've maxed the machine? Keep training them without increasing the weight? Add more reps? Thanks in advance.

Add plates. Most machines have a black bar that juts out on the opposite side of the plate stack. Take a weight from your weight area, put it on the black bar that juts out, and now you'll have 180 + 25 = 205, for example.

Worry though. Some of these machines do have cable restriction limits. Who knows? Maybe the hip adduction machine will abduct your hips at this current rate. Hehe.

**scherzo** · 09-15-2006, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by pali012

No offense to the poster, but if you are 150 lbs and can max out a a machine, you are either an EXTREMLEY strong dude, or, more likely, the machine is built like crap.

I dunno, maybe it is built like crap, but I just yesterday I did 160x10. Nice controlled movements too. I don't think it's this particular machine. Years ago I would get relatively high on similar machines, but I didn't have a pro-anabolic diet like I do now. So I think that why I tended to reinjure it and in general make very little gains elsewhere on my body.

See, I'm a programmer and sit down all day. A few months ago I got on the scale and couldn't believe I weighed 140. I immediately started eating a lot more and going to the gym. Now I'm supplementing 100 grams whey and 5 grams creatine daily and eating every 3 hours or so. I'm determined to get bigger. By next summer I want be 165 and greatly improve my strength. Oh, I'm 5'10".

I've been reading up on gaining for a while now and I think I have my routine pretty much down.

**KopyKat** · 09-15-2006, 04:43 PM

Interesting thread, and i dunno what to make of it since ive only tried this machine once ever last year. Im not sure why since at that time i never really trained legs too often or anything but i was able to do the full stack of 250lbs on that thing with minimal problems for a few reps! Useless for me thats for sure if im already doing the stack for a couple reps.

Maybe its the machine and its one of the easy ones but 250lbs is a good amount and i weighed like only 165ish at the time.

Or maybe i just have the biggest vagina of all using the logic of one of the previous posters LMAO!!!

I found that it wasn't useful for me but since i did have a slight adductor strain a couple months ago, maybe i should use that damn machine just to reinforce that area for future prevention of injurys, but i also feel better than ever right now so im not really too concerned with the area.

Well thats my experience with it for what its worth.

**AnaerobicAndrew** · 09-15-2006, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by scherzo

Oh, so I'm a girl because I want to train all the muscles on my body? Let's just say that I'm training my adductors so I can crush your skull the next time you to try to suck my dick, ***got.

No, youre a retard for trying to max 1) on a machine, and 2) the friggin hip adductor machine!!

**scherzo** · 09-15-2006, 07:02 PM

Alright, alright. I get it. Well at least I learned that the majority of you don't do this exercise. I'll just eliminate it which means more nutrition for the rest of my muscles.

So that leaves for my leg day:
Squat
Calf
Leg Curl

I bet everyone would start laughing again if I said I did hip abduction... the "YES". Geez. Such dogma here.

**Tyrbolift** · 09-15-2006, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by scherzo

Alright, alright. I get it. Well at least I learned that the majority of you don't do this exercise. I'll just eliminate it which means more nutrition for the rest of my muscles.

So that leaves for my leg day:
Squat
Calf
Leg Curl

I bet everyone would start laughing again if I said I did hip abduction... the "YES". Geez. Such dogma here.

I actually like the adduction--yes/no machine, it only takes a few minutes on leg day, and it really does work. The abducction, no/yes, don't care much for it.

**I dont work at Ballys** · 09-16-2006, 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by scherzo

I got back into weight training only a couple months ago. Everything is going well; I'm making progress on all my lifts and putting on some weight. Thing is, in these past few months I've managed to near just about the limit of the adduction machine. I'm squeezing 170lbs and the machine only has 180. Oh, and I only weigh 150lbs. So I'm really looking for advice here. I don't want freakishly large inner thighs. Do I lay off the adduction? Just keep going by adding plates after I've maxed the machine? Keep training them without increasing the weight? Add more reps? Thanks in advance.

add more reps.

**momotheglutton** · 09-16-2006, 01:00 AM

Eh, it's not a great machine, but it has its place. I started to feel very sore in that area when I did very heavy deadlifts so I threw it in the mix to strengthen that area. I think the key is to use it when you need it. Also, those things certainly don't have enough resistance. I was piling lots of plates on it...

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