chico1st

Okay for lunges do you bend your knee past your ankle? or do you just go until your thigh is parrallel to the floor.

Im a fencer and thats a big thing in fencing, you lunge but you are taught not to put your knee past your ankle or you will blow out your knee. I see people with bad form blow out thier knees all the time. Is the weight lifting lunge different somehow? ARe you supposed bend past parrallel?

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Spud

I do it so that the front knee is at aproximately 90 degrees, and the back knee is just about touching the ground.

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i did them yesterday and i can barely walk today lmao

CowPimp

Your knee can shift forward a little bit, but try not to let it migrate excessively. Not going past the toes is the general recommendation with a lunge. I lunge until my back knee is within a couple inches of touching floor, so I use and recommend a full ROM. I see no reason not to.

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vince20

which do u guys do more lunges with the bb behind ur neck or db holding them to ur side

kenwood

i like using a barbell

wilwn

the lunge as an exercise is different from the lunge employed in fencing, since in the former, the actual lunge is the negative portion of the lift. in fencing, the lunge is the concentric, so to speak. i hope that made sense...

Gazhole

I used to do barbell, but i found my back suffering from it so i was concentrating more from that instead of the actual lift, so ive switched to dbs and i like it much better.

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motiv8ed

I have the same problem... when i lunge forward my right knee hurts. So i just gave up on it. I, from the best of my ability to understand english, I word for fucking word folowed the ExRx form for lunges, but still pains my right knee. Heres their step by step...

<-- exrx along with a vid.

and what the shit do these actually _MEAN_ ?
1.) Lower body by flexing knee and hip of front leg
2.) extending the hip and knee of the forward leg

alwaysbelieve1

They mean make sure that when you lunge your front leg bears the weight. Then when you "extend the hip" it is sort of like a shift of the hip(as in the snatch) to take the load and power up forward, but always with control and not very explosive.

The way I train my clients on the lunge is pretty basic and has been mentioned already in previous posts of this thread. CowPimp is right on. I mainly use a forward walking lunge since this diminishes a majority of knee issues. In Place Front Lunges(pushing off and back with the front leg/knee in place) can cause significant knee issues especially in individuals prone to it.

Walking Lunge Form: Take a "soft"(using core to stabilize instead of slamming the foot down) step forward onto the front foot's heel. When the foot is planted make sure the front knee does NOT pass over the front toes. Also keep your weight balanced between the front AND rear legs. This will eliminate much of the knee pain that can be caused by lunges. Now with the back leg lower the knee straight down- without any lean forward, and bring that knee about 2-3 inches from the floor. While pushing off with only the back leg- use a little hip power- and step up to follow through with the back leg moving forward.

I love performing lunges and they are probably my favorite leg exercise. I also, for the most part, primarily use body weight with my clients as well as myself to do them. You say: "That will be easy then!" Right it is except I lunge distances. On average we lunge quarter miles and have my elite clients lunging half to mile long lunges sessions. Keep in mind that we still do other things during that same session too.

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