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Welcome to our weekly Move of the Week series. Every Monday, we’ll be sharing with you one of our favourite exercises – how to do them, what muscles they work and why they should be a regular part of your workout regime. This week: reverse lunge.
Runners require two things from strength training: balance and power. We need to ensure that our leg muscles are balanced on each side (imbalance causes injury) and we want to be able to exert power from in our powerhouse muscles for sprinting and intervals.
Lunge variations are some of the best exercises that we can do because they work on both of those elements. They mirror the movement of running, requiring one leg at a time to take the weight, while stabilising with the other foot. Reverse lunges are excellent because we rarely move backward so we get an even better opportunity to work on balance and coordination.
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