Adductors: The Missing Link in Team Sport Performance

With MShorts Plus, Myontec now makes it possible to monitor not only quads, hams, and glutes but also adductor muscles in real time or post-exercise.

Based on the latest science, that’s a game-changer.

Team sports are built on:

• Sprinting

• Cutting

• Kicking

• Accelerating

• Decelerating

• Changing direction

All of these actions heavily load the adductors together with big leg muscles.

Research shows:

• Groin injuries are increasing accounting up to 10-19% of all injuries in football 

• Low adductor strength significantly increases injury risk

• Strength imbalances between adductors and abductors are key predictors of injury

👉 If adductors are weak, fatigued, or overloaded → injury risk rises.

What Makes Adductors Important (but often overlooked)

Adductors are not just “inner thigh muscles.” They are:

1. Stabilizers during cutting and change of direction

They control the leg when the athlete plants and pushes off.

2. Key contributors to sprinting and acceleration

They assist in force transfer between legs and trunk.

3. Critical for kicking mechanics

Especially in football and in american football with high load, high velocity, high repetition, changing intensity.

4. Part of the core sling system

They connect with the abdominal and trunk muscles to stabilize the pelvis

👉 This means adductors influence both performance AND injury risk.

What MShorts Plus Adds: Full Lower-Body Visibility

Until now, most monitoring systems ignore adductors completely or estimate load indirectly.

But research shows:

• Adductor-related groin pain is one of the most common injuries in multidirectional sports

• Injury risk increases with strength deficits and asymmetry

👉 Yet coaches often don’t see the problem until:

• The athlete reports pain

• Performance drops

• Or injury happens

With MShorts Plus, coaches can now monitor:

• Quadriceps

• Hamstrings

• Glutes

• Adductors

👉 All in one system, during real training or post-exercise. You decide.

This means you can finally see:

• How much load adductors are taking

• Whether left–right balance or muscle distribution (compensation rate) is normal

• How fatigue builds during sessions

• How high load and intensity is changing muscle load distribution and compensation

• How exercises actually target the muscles you intend

Why This Matters

1. Better load management

   - Not all drills are equal.

   - Now you can see which ones overload the adductors even if GPS looks “easy”.

2. Injury prevention

   - Increasing muscle compensation in high intensity or high load

   - Weak or fatigued adductors = higher groin injury risk

   - Strengthening reduces injuries

   
   

   With EMG:

   👉 You don’t guess - you monitor.

   
   

3. Smarter rehab and return-to-play

   Adductor injuries are:

   - Slow to recover

   - Highly recurrent

Now you can:

• Track real activation

• Ensure both sides are balanced

• Monitor muscle distribution and compensation when load and intensity is increasing

• Confirm readiness before return2play

4. More effective strength training

Different exercises load adductors differently:

• Copenhagen → highest adductor force but it's isometric

• Squats/deadlifts → different portions of the muscle

• Find the best dynamic and sport specific exercise

• Optimize and individualize training

• Know exactly how training is loading athlete → from quesswork to precision coaching

MShorts Plus kit

€1,039.00

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With MShorts Plus, Myontec gives coaches what they've been missing:

A complete picture of lower-body muscle load, including the adductors.

Combine MShorts Plus with MSleeves and get full lower body load accurately monitoring 14 different leg muscles.

MSleeve

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