12/03/2023
It never gets easier, you just get stronger...
Ever tried walking lunges??
Walking lunges function as an excellent exercise to target all the major muscle groups of your lower body while simultaneously improving your balance and core strength. This movement is familiar to most people—it involves taking wide forward steps, bending both knees, and lowering your back knee to the floor while keeping your torso upright and tall.
Walking lunges are a strength-training exercise for the lower body and should be included in strength training routines. Because they engage multiple muscle groups and joints when walking lunges are performed for high reps or time, they can also send your heart rate soaring. This makes them an excellent option to incorporate into circuit training or high-intensity interval training routines designed to do double-duty for strength and cardiovascular benefits.
Benefits:
Walking lunges challenge your entire lower body and core, making them an excellent movement to incorporate into any workout, from warm-up to strength training routines. Specifically, you can expect to "feel the burn" in your quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes, and calves while also feeling engagement through your abdominals and low back.
Any compound exercise that simultaneously works multiple muscle groups is considered a functional exercise that mimics movements of everyday life, making you stronger and better for the types of movements basic living requires.
Common mistakes:
1. Having improper front knee alignment
2. Taking steps too long
3. Leaning forward from the hips
4. Putting feet too close together while stepping
Incorporate this move and make your workout interesting and effective.
