How to Do Reverse Lunges

Video Transcript

"Hello I'm Kyle Brayer and your next in home leg workout will be the reverse lunge so it's the opposite of the forward lunge. Kerry is going to turn to the side here and in order to focus on the hamstrings and the glutes, she's actually going to lunge behind her, keeping her hips and her shoulders in line. So with her right leg step back and then proceed down and then pause. You can go ahead and rest on the ground here Kerry. So again she wants to keep this front knee behind her toe. This is going to keep stress off the actual knee cap. You can brush the ground with your rear knee but you are trying not to rest typically. And then she is going to have a nice flexed foot on that back side so she is on her toe. Her torso is perfectly in line and her hands are on her hips to help her keep her balance. And she is looking forward and then she comes back up and then she will switch legs. Down and back up. Now the positive portion of this exercise, go down Kerry, is the difficult part so as she comes up she is exhaling and then she comes back to the front and then as she goes back down she is inhaling. So breathing is still very important on all these leg workouts. So you want to inhale to the easy part and exhale to the hard part. So the positive being the difficult part. And that is the reverse lunge. "