How To Do Diagonal Lunges Video

Gain muscle strength and flexibility with diagonal lunges. Learn about dumbbell exercises to promote fitness in this weightlifting video.

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Maintain balance
Keep back leg straight
Increase difficulty by adding dumbbells

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Michelle is a personal trainer at a gym in NC and has been a personal trainer for several years. She is certified through ACE and is a certified aerobics instructor as well. Her Specialty is weight lifting and she enjoys training aspiring female body builders as she is one herself. She focuses on helping her clients stronger, healthier, and sending them out feeling better for it. The best part of her job is when she see people living a better life as a result of the physical training. She was also a Marine physical trainer before she was employed at the gym.

MICHELLE TRAPP: Now I'm going to show you how to do the diagonal lunge, great exercise, requires balance. Hands on hips. I don't want arms for balance, you're going to use your core here, feet start together. What you're going to do is you're actually take a step out to the side and end up in a lunge. I'm driving back up through this heel to get me back to center. What we're working here, quads, my glutes are catching in, and we're getting in our thigh here too. This back leg stays straight, my body up and tall, my shoulder's back; again, I'm not using my arms to help me, I'm using this right here, down and up. These are great high-rep exercises, you want to increase the intensity and kick it up a notch? You can grab a set of dumbbells right here; this is going to make the balancing a little bit harder too. We're going to step out to the side, drive up through that heel, back to start. Down to the side, back up to start. Again, I like three to four sets, high reps guys, 20 reps, get your legs burning and back up. That's the diagonal lunge, remember, back legs stay straight, shoulders back, core tight, from this position, driving off the heel, get you back to center. It's the diagonal lunge.

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