Re: Correct form for lunges?

[Guest guest]

Maggie,

You may just need to change things up a bit and try doing the lunges

with the Machine(yes it is possible). I do stationary lunges on

the Machine, that way you can increase the weight without your

fingers giving out. After doing those for 4 or so weeks then mabye

switch back to your dumbell lunges. This helps me when I start to not

feel the effects of a certain exercise, your body adapts quickly, so

change is good! Hope this helps!

~Stacey

[Guest guest]

Hi Maggie,

Have you tried changing the angle that you do them at? (ie instead of

straight forward try stepping out at an angle or sideways, or backwards).

Sometimes changing things up even a little can help. I had the same problem

as you with my grip stength and I started wearing gloves with a wrist

support in them. It helped a bit.

Laurie

Correct form for lunges?

Okay, I'm beginning to think that I'm not doing lunges correctly or

something because they NEVER seem to challenge me or cause soreness at

all, even when I slow down the reps and really tighten up my glutes

and leg muscles. I'm doing stiff-legged barbell deadlifts for

hamstrings for sets 1-5, and one set of dumbbell lunges to finish off

with 30 lbs dumbbells. I do feel the deadlifts, just not the lunges.

The only thing that gets worked when I do them (following the exercise

description in the BFL book and the ExRx.net page) is my grip! I

think I need to increase my weight to 35 lbs, but my wimpy fingers

can't hang onto the stupid dbells for a whole 12 reps at that weight.

Would it be better to stick with the lunges, switch to using a

machine for them (is that even possible?), or pack it in and use a leg

curl machine instead? My quads build up VERY fast without any

particular attention from me, but I don't want the hamstrings to lag

too far behind.

Maggie

[Guest guest]

I read an article recently about doing lunges in a clocklike manner

such as lunge out to 1:00, 2:00 and so on. I haven't tried this yet

but it could present more of a challenge than you are currently

getting.

Stasia

[Guest guest]

Thanks for all the suggestions! I will try the machine

stationary lunges on Monday and the angled lunges next Friday and see

how they go.

I really didn't want to lose the benefits of a compound exercise by

going to leg curls.

Maggie

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:47:24 -0000, Stasia Bachrach

<s_bachrach@...> wrote:

>

> I read an article recently about doing lunges in a clocklike manner

> such as lunge out to 1:00, 2:00 and so on. I haven't tried this yet

> but it could present more of a challenge than you are currently

> getting.

>

> Stasia

>

>

[Guest guest]

Oh - I recently read something in M & F Hers about doing walking lunges on a

treadmill. Talk about balance! But sounds like a killer - they suggested doing

them for something like 1-2 minutes. Ouch!

Re: Correct form for lunges?

Thanks for all the suggestions! I will try the machine

stationary lunges on Monday and the angled lunges next Friday and see

how they go.

I really didn't want to lose the benefits of a compound exercise by

going to leg curls.

Maggie

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:47:24 -0000, Stasia Bachrach

<s_bachrach@...> wrote:

>

> I read an article recently about doing lunges in a clocklike manner

> such as lunge out to 1:00, 2:00 and so on. I haven't tried this yet

> but it could present more of a challenge than you are currently

> getting.

>

> Stasia

>

>