How to Do Traveling Lunges

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 general health risks, boost the immune system, and help with depression and insomnia. Whether trying to lose weight, or improve muscle mass, working out is always a good idea to help promote a healthy body and mind. In this free video series on lower body exercises, a fitness trainer, Les Whitley, demonstrates several exercises for working the muscles in the lower body. Whitley immediately begins demonstrating a variety of exercises. He'll discuss traveling lunges, toe raises, toning the inner thighs, building leg muscles, toning the legs and how to get rid of flabby outer thighs. All of these exercises are great for working the muscle sin the lower body. Watch these free videos and strengthen the lower body today.

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Les Whitley. Today I'd like to talk to you about one of the most exciting exercises for lower body in the lunge. The traveling lunge is most effective because it's moving your body through space. When we train the legs we train them as a whole trying to emphasize as much of the muscle mass as we possibly can. The traveling lunge begins with you in a good neutral position, pick a line to walk, ideally looking for ten to fifteen up to twenty steps per leg for good balance. Begin by initiating the movement and stepping forward in a comfortable step, you don't want to over extend and put your self in a position where it's going to limit your flexibility but also too, you want to step far enough out that you are getting a good range of motion, dropping the body down, stepping up, and all the way through the motion, hands can either be on the hips or out to the sides which ever is more comfortable. Again traveling through, keeping your body in a good upright position. And these can be done in a variety of different ways by stepping out, together, then out again or stepping all the way through to the next repetition. The second variety requires a little more control, a little more stability and it could be something you work into. The emphasis here is full hip extension when you are standing upright and not bending over at the waist. Maintain that good upright position, it activates the glutes and the rear of the thighs for maximum muscle stimulation."