Isometric & Multidirectional Lunge Strength & Conditioning Exercises

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Corey Beasley, I’m the owner of DNA fitness. I’m going to walk you through a lunge or a split squat. I’m also going to do an isometric lunge and then we’re going to do a multidirectional lunge. We’re going to start off initially with the isometric lunge. You’re going to want to split your feet apart, chest up, and you’re going to come down to the back knees, just above the ground and you are going to hold that position. Your goal is two minutes at that point. Obviously, when you’re starting, if all you can do is 10 seconds that’s great. You’re just going to want to progress from there. From the side again, feet split, body weight down, knee hovers above, chest up, hands off your legs, and you are holding that position. That’s number one. Number two is the regular lunge. Again, your feet split and then you’re just moving down and back up. You want most of that weight on that front heel coming down and back up. Again, from the side, chest up, weights on that front heel coming down; about 90 degrees here and 90 degrees on that back leg pushing straight up. Just down back up. Now, at the multidirectional lunge, what you’re going to do is you’re going to start; you’re going to step forward and back up. Then you’re going to step out about 45 degrees and back up, and then you can alternate legs. What I want you to do is as you’re going, you’re just stepping on at different angles. What that is going to do is it’s going to hit your leg, your joints, your knees, your hips at all different angles and strengthen your body all the way around. That’s three variations of a lunge."