Outdoor Lunge Exercises

Series Summary

Many people want to lose weight, and despite claims for quick fat burning pills and powders, the best way to lose weight is still through proper diet and exercise. Exercise does more than just maintain physical fitness though. Working out can also help build healthy bone density, muscle strength, and joint mobility. It can also reduce your general health risks, boost the immune system, and help with depression and insomnia. Whether your reason for exercising is to lose weight, or improve muscle mass, working out is always a good idea to help promote the health of your body and mind.

So, you want to workout and get in shape with good exercises, but you don't have a gym membership or access to exercise equipment. What do you do? Exercise outdoors! In this free video series, a personal trainer will teach you a number of exercises to do outdoors to workout all of your muscles and increase stamina and flexibility. You'll learn everything from lunges, shuttles, and tricep dips to push ups, squats, and hill running exercises. Forget about spending your money on equipment or a gym and do all of your training in the fresh air of the outdoors!

Video Transcript

"Today we're going to do lunges. First, I'm going to show you walking lunges. What's great about these is you can do them anywhere, and of course you can enjoy some outside scenery, as well as work your quads, hamstrings, and your glutes. Now, if you're inside watching this, I'm going to show you stationary lunges. I want you to turn, clear off some space, and then step as if you're standing on a railroad track. So, you want the legs about shoulder width apart, pop up on that back leg, bring the knee down, but don't touch the floor and come back up. Inhale down, exhale up. Your abs are tight, shoulders are back. Working that full lower body. Male or female we need nice strong legs to carry us through the day. Do about two more with me. Inhale down, exhale up. One more. And now, I'm going to flip you to the other side so we can do pump lunges. So, this is your third option. Pump lunges you sort of pop up on the back foot. Abs are tight, shoulders back. You go down and you just pump. So you're going to feel that burn a little bit quicker. You can do about eight more. 7...breathe. 6...5...work through the burn...4...3...2...and 1. You should feel that. That's your lunges for today."