Dumbbell Curtsy Lunge

Target Area: Lower Body

Equipment: 2 x Dumbbells 

  1. Start with your feet hip width apart with the dumbbells in your hands on either side of your body. 
  2. Keeping your upper body straight, take a step backward crossing your leg behind your front leg as if about to do a curtsy. Lower your hips until the front knee is bent at about a 90 degree angle.
  3. Keeping the weight in your heel, push back up to the starting position. Perform for the number of prescribed repetitions.

INTENSITY

Increase

Increase the weight of the dumbbells or number of repetitions.

Decrease

Master a Curtsy Lunge first.

ALTERNATIVE

Dumbbell Walking Lunge