This exercise targets hip abduction, adduction and flexion while ... They also engage stabilizing muscles around the hip joint while moving through a functional range of motion.

Abduction – movement away from the midline ... like using a screw driver. This occurs in the hip joint in golf while performing a drive shot or the shoulder joint when playing a topspin forehand ...

This occurs when the angle of a joint increases, for example, at the elbow when putting a shot. Abduction – movement away from the midline of the body. This occurs at the hip and shoulder joints ...