Lunges with dumbbells

Lunges with dumbbells — technique exercises:

1. Become straight, one in each hand grab a dumbbell. This will be your initial position.
2. Make right leg step forward, left foot remains in place. On the inhale sit without bending at the waist and keeping your back straight. Hint: don’t let the knee of the leg which is to come, to go forward. It must remain on the same parallel with your feet. The Shin of the leg that is to come, must be perpendicular to the floor.
3. Rebounding from the floor of the feet, on the exhale, lift and return to starting position.
4. Complete the required number of repetitions, then change legs.

Note: this exercise requires good balance. If you perform this exercise for the first time or has problems with balance, try the exercise without weights, using as weights only its own weight.

Variations: there are several variations of this exercise.

1. You can do lunges alternating right and left foot.
2. The starting position may be such in which one leg is already ahead. In this case, you only need to perform the movement up and down, sinking and rising with weight.
3. Complicated option exercises are steps lunge. Instead after a lunge you take a step back and return to its original position, you again make a step forward, alternating thus legs.
4. Lunges can be performed using a barbell on the shoulders.

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