One of the key components to an elite Irish dancer's performance is crossover. As a dancer, you’ve probably heard your dance teachers encourage you to “cross!” or have seen on your adjudicator comment sheet from a feis, “knees open”, “crossover”, or “tighten knees”. And you work tirelessly at home in front of the mirror to get one knee in front of the other. But you could be missing a key component to enhancing your crossover - strengthening your adductors! Your adductors

Strength and conditioning programs have primarily been associated with sports for hundreds of years. But when it comes to dance, it is not commonly seen as a necessary component. However, recent research shows that “training outside the dance technique class is not only beneficial, but perhaps essential to furthering strength and power in highly-developed dancers.”1 Strength training programs teach dancers efficient ways to improve technique by increasing the quality of ef