Dumbbell Walking Lunge
oec:dumbbell-walking-lunge
A dynamic lower-body exercise where you step forward into alternating lunges while holding dumbbells at your sides.
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Also called: Walking Dumbbell Lunge, Dumbbell Walking Lunges, Walking Lunge with Dumbbells, Walking Lunges, Dumbbell Lunges Walking
How to do it
Setup
- Stand tall with feet hip-width apart, holding a dumbbell in each hand with arms hanging naturally at your sides.
- Engage your core, pull your shoulders back and down, and ensure a clear, unobstructed path ahead.
Movement
- Take a controlled step forward with one leg, landing heel-to-midfoot.
- Lower your body under control until the back knee lightly taps or hovers just above the floor, with both knees bent to roughly ninety degrees.
- Push forcefully through the front midfoot and heel, extending the hip and knee to drive your body upward and forward.
- Bring the trailing leg through in a continuous motion to step directly into the next lunge, or pause briefly with feet together if balance requires.
- Repeat alternating legs for the desired number of repetitions.
Breathing
Inhale as you step forward and lower into the lunge; exhale forcefully as you drive up out of the bottom position.
Cues
- Stay tall through the torso.
- Step on train tracks, not a tightrope.
- Drive through the whole front foot.
- Control the descent; don't slam the trailing knee.
Common faults
- Stepping with feet directly in line, leading to loss of lateral balance.
- Maintain hip-width spacing between feet as you step forward.
- Slamming the rear knee forcefully onto the floor.
- Decelerate smoothly and stop just short of floor contact or let the knee tap gently.
- Excessive forward torso collapse and rounding of the spine.
- Brace the abdominals and keep the chest proud throughout the stride.
Safety
- Clear ample floor space of stray equipment before beginning.
- If you lose balance, drop the dumbbells to your sides away from your feet rather than twisting.
Muscles
Joints
- Hip: Flexion, Extension
- Knee: Flexion, Extension
- Ankle: Dorsiflexion, Plantarflexion
- Lumbar spine: Isometric stabilization
Details
- Movement
- Lunge, Gait
- Modality
- Strength, Hypertrophy
- Mechanics
- compound
- Force
- push
- Laterality
- alternating
- Kinetic chain
- closed
- Level
- intermediate
- Equipment
- Dumbbell
- Record
- Repetitions and Load
- Load
- external, per implement
Related
- variation of Dumbbell Lunge
- regression of Barbell Walking Lunge
- substitute for Barbell Walking Lunge
- substitute for Dumbbell Lunge
- substitute for Dumbbell Reverse Lunge
- progression of Forward Lunge
- progression of Bodyweight Forward Lunge
Sources
- wger: Dumbbell Lunges Walking, by wger.de (CC-BY-SA-3.0)
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