Walking Lunge (Dumbbell)
Trains the quadriceps, with help from the glutes and hamstrings. You need a dumbbell. None of our programs use it yet, but you can add it to any session you build.
Free to use. The app works out every weight and times your rest.
In the programs
None of our programs use the Walking Lunge (Dumbbell)
It is in the app, so you can add it to any session and log it like anything else. It is just not written into one of our 50 free programs. If you want a quadriceps exercise that is, there are 16 on the Quadriceps page.
Muscles worked
What Walking Lunge (Dumbbell) trains
Technique
How to do the Walking Lunge (Dumbbell)
- Stand tall with your feet hip-width apart, holding a dumbbell in each hand at your sides with your palms facing your body.
- Step forward with your right leg and lower your body until your right thigh is parallel to the floor and your left knee hovers just above the floor.
- Push through your right heel and bring your left leg forward, stepping directly into the next lunge on the left side.
- Continue alternating legs, walking forward with each lunge, for the desired number of repetitions.
Form cues
Getting it right
- Keep the dumbbells hanging at your sides and your shoulders back; avoid letting the weights pull you forward.
- Keep your front knee aligned over your ankle to protect your knee joint.
- Take your time between steps to stay balanced under the added load.
- Exhale as you drive up out of each lunge and inhale as you lower down.
Substitutes
Swap Walking Lunge (Dumbbell) for
The app's swap picker ranks these the same way: same muscles, similar movement, similar equipment.
Let the app run the Walking Lunge (Dumbbell) for you
Durata picks the weight, times your rest and adds load when you earn it. That works on any of our 50 free programs, or on a session you put together yourself.