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Illustration of the Bodyweight Walking Lunge: Hands on the hips, big steps, control the back knee to an inch off the floor.
compound · Lunge

Bodyweight Walking Lunge

Bodyweight Walking Lunge is a compound lunge movement for quads, using no equipment. It also works glutes and hamstrings. 3 sets of 16-24, 1 min rest.

Primary muscle
Quads
Equipment
None — bodyweight
Difficulty
Beginner
Sets and reps
3 × 16-24
Rest
60s
Force
push

How to do it

  1. 1
    Set up

    Clear stretch of floor, feet hip width to start.

  2. 2
    The cue that matters

    Hands on the hips, big steps, control the back knee to an inch off the floor.

  3. 3
    Work it

    3 sets of 16-24, resting about 1 minute between them. Both sides, same number of reps.

Muscles worked

Quads does most of the work. Glutes and hamstrings take the rest.

Quads exercisesgluteshamstrings