Strength · Lunge · Bodyweight

Bodyweight Lunges

Bodyweight Lunges is a strength exercise with your bodyweight that mainly works the quads, with help from the glutes and adductors.

Animation of Bodyweight Lunges

How to do it

  1. Long stance, front foot flat, back heel up
  2. Lower straight down, torso tall
  3. Back knee towards the floor, front knee over the foot
  4. Push through the front foot to stand up

In Sets Ahead

Sets Ahead starts you on 3 sets of 8–12 reps with 2:00 rest. When every set reaches 12 reps, add 2.5 kg, or 5 lb if you train in pounds of extra weight, or keep adding reps.

Muscles worked

Mainly

  • Quads

Also

  • Glutes
  • Adductors

Joints it loads

  • Knee a lot
  • Hip some
  • Ankle some

With an injury here, the app warns you before this exercise.

Log it in Sets Ahead

Sets Ahead works out your next set of bodyweight lunges, and every other lift, from your own numbers.

Test it before release

Similar exercises

The same movement, done another way: what the app suggests when you swap.

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