Muscle coverage ranking · derived analysis

Most Documented Abductors Exercises

Free Exercise DB ranking: Abductors exercises sorted by numbered instruction steps and text length, catalog coverage, not training advice.

Catalog leader for this muscle

Thigh Abductor carries the longest numbered instruction list among 8 ranked abductors primary-target records shown here (4 steps, 615 characters in the upstream text).

#1
4 steps · Thigh Abductor
43
tagged inventory total
8
primary-target rows ranked

Step count ranks documentation depth in the Free Exercise DB extract, not exercise quality or safety.

Ranked by instruction step count

Sorted by json_array_length(instructions_json) on exercises whose primary muscle is abductors.

Rank Exercise Steps Chars Variations
1 Thigh Abductor 4 615 0
2 Lying Crossover 4 525 0
3 Standing Hip Circles 4 315 0
4 Iliotibial Tract-SMR 3 476 0
5 Hip Circles (prone) 3 358 0
6 Windmills 3 343 0
7 Monster Walk 3 317 0
8 IT Band and Glute Stretch 2 350 0

How to read this ranking

This page lists only exercises whose primary muscle field names abductors. Tagged-inventory counts on the muscle hub can be higher because secondary tags count too. Derived ranks are labeled as our analysis; raw source counts live on each exercise record.

Where the upstream file omits a field, the exercise page says so, we do not estimate missing values. See the corrections process to report a mismatch.

Source: Free Exercise DB (CC0). Ranking computed at render from the PlainExercise database (2026-07-10).

Every figure on PlainExercise is compiled from public exercise-science and biomechanics references, no number is typed in by an editor. Muscle step-count ranks are computed from live SQL on the exercise table, no editor typed the order. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology & changelog, or report a data error.