Tuesday, 19 January 2010 00:24

Side Lunges

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Side lunge, like any other lower body compound exercise (i.e., squats, leg presses, frontal or rear lunges) work the entire leg muscles. This would include the quadriceps and hamstrings, glutes, inner thigh muscles, and calves. The side lunge due to its lateral directional nature, particularly works the inner thighs very effectively strengthening and stretching at the same time. For these reasons the Side Lunge is an excellent lower body exercise to compliment other lower body exercises.

Depending on your goal, you can perform this exercise:

without weight for toning;
with moderate weight for body building;
with lots of weight for maximum strength development.

A special note for maximum strength development. Due to the lateral nature of the movement, the absolute weight that should be use will be relatively smaller than that of squats or leg presses. Extra care and caution should be taken to prevent severe injury.

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