";s:4:"text";s:1269:" Drive through the heel of your front foot and push yourself back up to your starting position. Too easy? I find my patients either: Push through the pain and keep going with them, ending up with an injury or. Shake things up and add these 5 lunge variations to your routine.
Descend until your rear knee almost touches the floor and the front knee is stacked directly above the ankle, creating 90° bend in both knees.
Knee pain while performing lunges is very common and every day in the clinic I hear people say that performing lunges aggravates their knees..
Some lunge variations, like jump lunges and curtsy lunges, may be too advanced for where you’re at right now. Stop doing them altogether and miss out on the many benefits lunges can bring..
Step back into a reverse lunge by lowering your knee to the floor or as far as comfortable. “Choose a [lunge] variation that is comfortable to you and don’t feel pressure to enter into more advanced forms that require more stability, balance or range of motion that is beyond what you can perform without pain or discomfort,” Nelson says.