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Lunges are a powerful exercise that target the quads, hamstrings, glutes, hips, and calves.
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They involve stepping forward, lowering your body toward the ground, and returning back to the starting position.
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Lunges can help you develop lower-body strength and endurance, and are a great beginner move.
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Benefits of lunges include weight loss, improved balance and stability, alignment and symmetry, and improved posture.
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Summary
Lunges are a powerful exercise that target the quads, hamstrings, glutes, hips, and calves. They are a unilateral exercise, meaning you work one side at a time, and there are many variations available to make it more accessible and advanced. Common mistakes to make when doing lunges include not keeping the knees straight, not using a stationary object, and not using the front or rear foot to move.
How to Do Lunges: Techniques, Benefits, Variations - Verywell Fit
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It involves stepping forward, lowering your body toward the ground, and returning back to the starting position. It’s the version most people will refer to when they say they’re “doing lunges.”
In the beginning of the exercise, your leg muscles have to control the impact of your foot’s landing.
Lunges: Muscles Worked, How-To, Variations, and More - Healthline
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A lunge is a single-leg bodyweight exercise that works your hips, glutes, quads, hamstrings, and core and the hard-to-reach muscles of your inner thighs.
Lunges can help you develop lower-body strength and endurance. They’re also a great beginner move.
Lunge: How to Do a Perfect Forward Lunge - Greatist
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Lunges have several benefits, including strengthening many of the major muscle groups in your lower body. You can build muscle in your glutes, quads, hamstrings, and calves by doing lunges …
How to Do Lunges Correctly | SELF
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Lunges are an easy and efficient exercise to help build strength in your quadriceps, glutes, hamstrings, calves, and core. They are also relatively safe to do as they have simple…
6 Ways to Do Lunges - wikiHow
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Dr. Laskowski: The lunge is a body resistance exercise that works the leg muscles. Specifically, the lunge targets the quadriceps and the hamstring muscles in the thigh, the gluteal muscles…
Video: Lunge exercise - Mayo Clinic
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