The lunge works three of your largest muscles in the body. The hamstrings, quads, and glutes. It is another great exercises as it is one of the best compound exercises and does not need any external equipment. You need to contract you abdominal muscles during this exercise to keep help keep you balance and hold form.
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Start standing strait legs 5cm apart looking strait ahead take a large step forward so finished with one foot forward.
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Back foot heal will come off the ground but ball of foot and and toes stay on ground
Hips square , shoulders square back normal curve. looking forward |
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Drop back knee towards floor going strait down . do not lean forward front knee should not come forward of the toes. Back should keep strait.
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Drop back knee to it is about 2cm off ground
Push up back to starting position putting pressure on ball of back foot and heal of the front foot.
Ensure that your shoulders are square and in line with your hips through out the entire movement. To keep strait core will need to be turned on( abs drawn towards your spine.)
To increase the degree of difficulty of this exercise hold hand weights to increase resistance. |
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