Lateral Lunges...You're Doing It WRONG

We had a lot of requests for this episode, ask and you shall receive! Lateral lunges performed incorrectly can put a ton of unnecessary stress onto the tissues of the knee, and they can actually be quite difficult to teach and perform. Here we will breakdown some of the most common mistakes in the lateral lunge, and I’ll show you how I teach this exercise to my athletes for safer and more effective training. #RaisingTheBar

[heri.sanchez]

I havent even start but he saying im Doing it wrong

[anothersimone]

These cues are spot on. I could NOT keep my feet pointed forward doing a lateral lunge until I made that adjustment to step forward just a bit with the lunging leg. And I really liked the explanation that the cue that is often given "chest up" doesn't mean totally vertical (which never made sense to me). Now the movement feels natural and strong. Thank you!

[lauriebasicpm]

This is such a difficult exercise for me and it has never felt right. Your tip on the toe to instep fixed most of problem I had. It's still a very hard movement for me (which means I need to do it more), but now I'm more confident in my form. Thanks for the great video!

[peejuu]

Best breakdown of this particular excercise!

[AJ-lbtu]

wish i watched this earlier. now already hurt my hip and IT Band. really had to research all workouts before performing each one of them. thks for this tutorial.

[cjcpresentswanda]

I've been looking for a good explanation on this. Thanks Paul Ryan

[laurelanneclark]

Thank you - this improved my lateral lunge a lot. I was very awkward with my dumb bells!

[leeerickson]

Oh man! This helped me so much in my side lunges

[ciaranohagan]

My coach recently gave me this exercise and taught it as per your video.

I’ve been having some knee issues (could be tracking wrong). This post has helped me visualise exercise correctly.

Have subscribed and thanks for sharing…

[BaroqueEnjoyer]

I've read about doing these to address glute activation and anterior femoral glide syndrome, characterized by sharp/pinching hip pain when coming out of the bottom of the squat. Great tip on sitting back into the hips, rather than shifting the bodyweight forward onto the knee.

[dishakerkar]

Only sound quality of video can improve rest everyting good

[Demerrisk]

Thank you so much for this. This has to be the most awkward move I've attempted thus far, and I feel like I do it differently AND wrong every single time.

[lynnseto]

Did these yesterday (2nd time ever) and did it wrong. Yep ... made all 3 mistakes. Appreciate this video!!!

[jamsea]

This exercise often appears on my gym's app routines. And everytime I'm like "OK, maybe I'll feel like it's worth it this time". It makes me sweat as part of the workout as a whole but I just knew I was doing it wrong even though I was following the app's video and instructions because it just didn't feel like it was a worthy move.

[bspi]

Thanks for clarifying some technique questions I had. Appreciate the detail 👍

[crys]

Thank you for this demonstration I've wanted to know the right way to do this exercise and you have explained it so well in detail 👍

[tyreetyson]

Great technique pointers on lateral lunges. Going to incorporate this exercise into my training in a while to better grow my quads, and these tips are very helpful

[artistadavide]

Note, the instructor does it correctly.

[joelolson]

This video should have been called "Audio Recording Quality... We're not doing it right"😂

[kierraking]

I just did it and it feels so different and I felt it in my glutes too. 🎉