🔥 Feeling lunges working Quads or Glutes?
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We are not a fan of isolation graphics.But here is why they can be useful.👌🏽🔭 G E N E R A L T O S P E C I F I C . . . 🔬A lunge involves pretty much the entire body. The lower body handles the majority of the load, while the midsection and torso stabilize the body. However we have a big factor that determines whether the stress/load goes to your POSTERIOR chain (back of your body) or your ANTERIOR chain (front of your body), and that is…📐 T H E T O R S O - L E G S A N G L E 🧐The angle of your torso in relationship to your lower body determines which muscle groups you’ll be putting more emphasis in.🎯 Q U A D S & H I P F LE X O R S 🎯 𝘾𝙪𝙚: 𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙤 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡.This will keep your hip open, lengthening the hip flexors and contracting them to stabilize yourself in the lowering phase.It will also bias the quads to take the majority of the load as they are getting stretched as well.🎯 G L U T E S & H A M M I E S 🎯
𝘾𝙪𝙚 : 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙤 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙.You know that feeling of stretching the hamstring when trying to touch your toes? That’s what happens when you close your hips, taking away the stretch from the front of the body (as we saw when keeping torso vertical) and sending that stretch towards the back of the body (glutes and hamstrings).By putting them into a stretch, they will need to work harder to push yourself back to the top.🧠 R E M E M B E R T H I S By putting your muscle into a stretch/lengthened position and demand it to contract, you are putting it into a mechanical disadvantage.Meaning that it will need to work harder to accomplish the task.
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