For skiing & snowboarding
For skiing & snowboarding, Cossack squat rates higher on our research criteria: more carry-over to skiing & snowboarding.
Hip adduction machine is easier to learn and fit in.
Both are good choices that build different things for skiing & snowboarding, so a plan can use both.
The research score comes from these, scored by hand from the studies. Lifter scores appear once an exercise has 10 ratings. How scores work
For combat sports, hip adduction machine rates higher on our research criteria: easier to learn and fit in.
For skiing & snowboarding, Cossack squat rates higher on our research criteria: more carry-over to skiing & snowboarding. Hip adduction machine is easier to learn and fit in. Both are good choices that build different things for skiing & snowboarding, so a plan can use both.
Hip adduction machine is easier: it’s easy to learn, while Cossack squat takes some practice.
Cossack squat needs no equipment, so you can do it anywhere. Hip adduction machine needs a machine, so for most people it’s a gym exercise.
About the same: both rate Good for injury protection in our research rubric.