Preventing Imbalances From Sports Kicking?

Bigger Stronger Leaner Injuries and Rehab
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Hello all,

I hope this is the right forum for this, I’m kind of new here so please forgive me if it’s not. After a quick google search on the forums, I couldn’t find anything related, so I figured I’d start something new.

Basically, I want to up my kicking practice for rugby and have visions of having a massive set of quads on my dominant leg and having a massive glute and set of hamstrings on my non-dominant leg (planting leg). I read an article by Bret Contreras called, “How to Fix Glute Imbalances” and got a few great ideas about firing up the glutes, so now I’m just wondering what ideas people have for maintaining/developing balance in the quads?

Have any soccer, football, or rugby players rehabbed or prehabbed this kind of stuff?

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The quads on your nonkicking leg will get plenty of work holding your plant leg straight while you kick with the other, so I wouldn’t worry so much about that. I’d focus on activating the glutes of your kicking leg.

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Thanks Mike, that sounds like a good plan