Lunge Tap 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. Everyone ones a firm butt muscles. Whether its for your swim suit, favorite pair of jeans, or just general health, working the glutes is something that many of us want to do. In this free video series, learn some simple glute and ab excerises to start toning your body. Our expert, Amy McCauley, is a personal trainer for Gold's Gym. She shares all kinds of exercises with you. Learn how to do squats, crunches, leg lifts, and more! So, what are you waiting for? Take the time to improve your health and fitness level today!

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm going to demonstrate how to do lunge taps, and what we really are going to focus on are the gluts, so you're going to drop down into a 90 degree angle, from your ankle, to your knee, to your hip. It's going to be a 90 degree angle,hands on the hips, shoulders back. You want the chest open, straight in line with the ceiling. We're drawing the toe to the opposite heel and then straight back. What we want to avoid is coming up, and dropping back down. Think about sinking down in that muscle, engage quadricep hamstring, and glute. Tap it straight up, and draw it straight back, so there's very little motion from the upper body to the head, to the shoulders, all the way down to your hips. Think about somebody sitting on your shoulders, and you don't want to drop them off. Tap, draw it back. This is a really good exercise for your glutes. The leg that is in the front, you're going to feel a little bit in your quad, but it''s more so working into your glute, so what you want to think about, drop down into that 90 degree angle. Get really deep, chest up, shoulders back, and tap. If you want to make this a little bit harder, get a step with about two to three risers, to elevate your foot up into that 90 degree angle. This really, really works those gluts. Lift that chest up. Touch and pull back, just make sure that your knee doesn't shoot over your toe, when you tap forward. Stay loaded, and this will really get in to those gluts. You want to do between 8-12 repetitions , 2-3 sets. Switch legs. Your heartbeat is going to come up, that's good. Burn some calories, and we're on to quadriceps and gluts together, so try those lunge taps and see what you think."