How to Do Reverse Curtsy Lunges

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"ALICE MONSAERT: This exercise is a reverse curtsey lunge and we're going to start from the top of the bench. Again, it's an advanced exercise. You're going to start with your legs wide, toes pointing forward but actually slightly turned out. You're going to take one leg and step back so you're crossing behind the supporting leg and then out to the side. So, step back, crossing back and out to the side. You could do this just on one side only first, which is what we call a "unilateral movement." But however many repetitions you do on one side, you would certainly want to do at least that many on the other side, although you'll find out that you have one stronger leg than the other. So you might be able to do 10 on one side and only 8 on the other before you fatigue. Once you've mastered the movement of any lunge or leg exercise, to increase the intensity, increase the height of the bench and/or add your external resistance, which, in this case, would be dumbbells, or perhaps if you have a body bar that would work as well. So you're crossing behind and, again, you're just tweaking that exercise a little bit to activate the muscle fibers a little bit differently than you normally do in your regular lunges, kind of tricking the muscles into looking and you feeling a whole lot better about your hot legs."