How To Do Lunges With Tubing Video

Add resistance to standard lunge exercises with tubing. Learn how to work out the lower body with lunges using tubing in this exercise video from a physical fitness trainer.

Take Action

Keep knees stacked with ankle
Put tubing in arch of shoe
Place weight on front leg
Move straight down & up

About this Author

Carol Childers has been a physical fitness trainer for twenty three years. She is experienced in yoga, pilates, sports conditioning, core strength training and nutrition. She currently works with clients all over the country.

We're going to work today with perfecting a lunge with tubing. So as always, you've got your form down with just your basic lunge without any resistance. And then if you're ready to step it up to a next level, we'll add in some resistance here with the elastic tubing. Everybody can use one of these. It's variable resistance depending on the color. It will depend on the thickness and the amount of resistance you're going to get. Lunge is just basically what? A one-legged squat. Everybody's distance is going to vary depending on the length of their levers, so you want to take your feet apart and make sure you got your knees stacked with your ankle behind the toe, just like any lower body movement. And then what we can do is anchor this right underneath. It's going to be in the arch of your shoe. I don't want to say foot because you shouldn't be able to feel it. And then we're going to put our weight in the front heel. Misnomer about lunges, we think our workload is on the back. It's actually going to be in the back of the front leg, workload in the glute and then everything else is going to fire up. A big inhale down and then exhale up. Inhale down and exhale up. Noting that I'm going straight down, straight up, leaving the chest tall. Inhale, exhale, pushing with the weight in the heel. If you force yourself to push your weight in the heel, then you're automatically anatomically going to keep your knee behind your toe. And you want to work in the 12 to 15 rep range depending on the, again, the thickness of the tubing. You may fatigue earlier if you have a thicker tube with more resistance.

How to Do Lunges With Tubing Video

Take Action

About this Author

Member Comments