Lower Body: Lunge With Quad Extension Video

A lunge with a quad extension works the lower body by beginning with a lunge, adding a knee lift and ending with a full leg extension to the front. Work the lower body with lunges, adding weights to increase the difficulty level, with instruction from a certified fitness trainer in this video on lower body workouts.

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Combination lower body strength move
Primary muscles: Gluteals & quads
Vary reps & sets for cross training
Add weights for variation
Set can be repeated 2-3X a week

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Keith Irace has been a certified trainer for 16 years. He is currently the regional group fitness manager for Equinox Fitness Clubs in southern California and a trainer for iTRAIN.com is your own "Hollywood personal trainer right in your pocket." Each audio and video workout consists of an elite Hollywood Trainer or World Champion Athlete mixed with original music to satisfy your workout needs. iTRAIN provides more than 275 workouts in its library ranging from treadmill to elliptical, cycling, strength training, and many more.

Hi I'm Keith Irace and welcome to lower body. Today's exercise is lunge with a quad extension so we are going to get set up on our step with our weight so go ahead and pick up any set of weights that you want to work with today and this is going to be one strong dynamic move. You are going to take your right leg and step back to the floor, push with the strength in your left leg and keep right up to a balance on one leg, extend out through your heel and pull it back out and set it down. Let's try that altogether now. So here we go, step, lift, press, release, step, lift, press, release, balance up and press and release, step, lift, press, release, you've got it. You can do this very same exercise with no weights if you like. If the stability throws you off and you don't want that extra weight just do it with your body weight, it might be tough enough, let's go, five, up, press release, and four, up press, release, three, up press release, two more, two up press release, one more one, up press release. Good, step it up and shake your legs out a little bit and we are going to that other side, opposite leg. Let's do it slowly first so we step back. Open that hip flexor a little, pull up, find the balance, press forward with your heel, come on back and place it down. Here we go, to tempo. Up, lift, press, release, yes, extend, release. I want you to pretend that you are putting your foot on a wall in front of you, you go up, push, foot print in, push foot print in, you've got it, step, push out, up, out give me four more, four, powerful breath through it you can do this, three, up push, two more, up push, last one, come on, one, up push good. Good work. Thanks for joining me today for lower body. I'm Keith Irace and I will see you at the gym.

Lower Body: Lunge With Quad Extension Video

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