Many people perform the lateral band walk as exercise prior to training. It is intended to work the lateral hips, specifically the glute medius muscle (an important muscle in limiting problems like a knee collapse or hip shift).❌ . If you initiate your walk by kicking laterally, you’re not really performing this as efficiently as you could. You see many people are taught that the glute medius is an abductor of the hip (meaning it kicks the leg away) and while this is relatively correct, the near