The Lunge: Pain is Just Temporary!

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Posted by Rose O'Donovan
Trainer at Fitness O2

This is my second tip to get the best out of your booty bootcamp experience with Fitness O2.  I’ll focus on the lunge, and the pain factor (relax, read on).

Lunge – another functional exercise we perform every day and so fantastic for our hips, bottoms (this is booty right) thighs and if performed correctly your core and posture take a nice part of the loading of this exercise however if performed incorrectly it can cause some problems later but my biggest problem is AND yours is that if you show up to bootcamp and are buckled after 10 lunges on each leg or hop around the grass like a swarm of wasps stung your thighs what’s going to happen if we do 2 or 4 or 6 sets of lunges and then go off for a short run – you may run out the gate! And I only like seeing you leave through the gate once the 1 hour session is over :)!

So what I am talking about is endurance – have some muscular endurance in your legs –please ladies! Be able to perform lunges with your shoulders over your hips, your knees over your ankles, the movement goes down – not forward so your thigh muscles and glutes take the load – imagine there is a long needle through you spine and stay tall - pain is temporary! 

Lunging legs are amazing – so come with the ability to lunge and I will teach you travelling lunges, lateral lunges, transverse lunges, static lunges, reserves lunges and power lunges – we can do these in 5’s, 10,s 20,s 100’s – the stage is yours as are the jeans you will slink back in to!

My 3rd tip will be coming shortly, covering Push-Ups, stay tuned ladies.  In case you missed my first post of this series, focusing on the squat, please read it here. 


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