Are you lunging to avoid injury? In this trainer’s guide, PT Ashley Capewell from Performance Ground Gym demonstrates how to lunge
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for heaps of full length free workout videos
The lunge is a lower body compound movement that primarily works the hamstrings, quadriceps and glutes.
How to lunge:
- Establish foot position – Stand with feet underneath the hips
- Take one step forward with right foot and one step back with left foot
- Once you are here you have found now found the centre of your stance
- Lower the left knee to the ground and come back up
- Coming into the lunge you need to find the same foot position
- Start by picking the knee up and step into your lunge
- Keep torso upright and try not to flex from the hips
- Do not let the knee travel past the toes
- As you come back up drive through the heel of the front foot
Would you like to train Performance Ground gym? Click here to book your consultation
More Gym Basics:
How to do a barbell bench press – trainer’s guide
How to squat properly – the PT’s guide
How to do a pull up – the trainer’s guide
How to do a hip thrust – the trainer’s guide
Relevant Healthista content:
Want to learn to box? This video series shot at Anthony Joshua’s gym will help
5 fat loss supplements proven by science
9 healthy diet myths making you fat
18 best plus size workout clothes
Healthista content you might also like:
8 best tasting kombucha drinks
4 ways stress is showing on your skin and exactly how to cope
The dairy-free probiotic drink that fixed my bloating
3 breathing techniques this Instagram super yogi swears by
Like this article? Sign up to our newsletter to get more articles like this delivered straight to your inbox.
