Beginner exercise

Bodyweight Walking Lunge

  • Muscle Growth
  • Calisthenics

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Bodyweight Walking Lunges

Technique

How to perform Bodyweight Walking Lunge

  1. Stand upright with your hands on your hips.
  2. Step forward and bend both knees to lower into a stable lunge.
  3. Keep the lead foot planted and let the lead knee track with the foot as the rear knee approaches the floor.
  4. Push through the lead foot to rise while keeping your torso controlled.
  5. Bring the rear leg forward into the next lunge on the opposite side.
  6. Continue alternating without returning backward between steps.

Programming relevance

Muscles involved

Primary targets: Gluteus Maximus, Vastus Lateralis, Vastus Medialis.

MuscleScoreRole
Gluteus Maximus0.9Target, Mover
Vastus Lateralis0.9Target, Mover
Vastus Medialis0.9Target, Mover
Gluteus Medius0.5Stabilizer
Soleus0.4Mover

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Progression relationships

These relationships describe graph position, not personal readiness.

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