How Do You Do A Front Lunge Lower Body Exercise?
“This next group of exercises is the lunge group where, basically, one leg is always going to be in front of the other. Many people know lunges from Yoga. We’re doing kind of the weight training lunges here, the strength training lunges. One important difference between the lunges we’re going to do here and the Yoga lunges, Yoga lunges are done typically with the back foot turned in at about 45 degrees or more and the heel stays on the ground. This is not what we’re doing here. We want both feet straight ahead. Ball of the back foot on the ground, heel off the ground. Front leg, far enough forward so that the shin stays vertical when we are at the bottom position. This will be the base bottom position of all of our lunges. We don’t want to crack the knee into the ground, we want the knee to come just short of the ground. There’s no point in banging your patella up against the ground. Front lunges, lunges going to the front. Now, if you have knee problems you may not want to start with
