Lateral lunge
Category: Strength
Level: 1
6-8 reps each side
Carla van den Berg
- Knee stacked over ankle
- Bodyweight over bent knee
- Sit back into the hips
- 'Back' leg straight
- Toes of both feet pointing forward
- Both feet flat on floor
- Knee collapsing inward
- Cue "Look down: Can you see the inside of your front foot?"
- Cue “Push knee out toward pinky toe”
- Outside edge of foot lifting off the floor
- Cue "Feet flat and sticky"
- Toes pointing outward
- Cue "Point toes straight ahead"
- Excessive forward lean
- Cue "Sit back into hips"
- Knee control
- Glute and quad activation & strength
- Movement in frontal plane (sideways)