teh barbell lunge: effective?

[binö]

discuss

 

[UA_Iron]

for chicks? yeah probably.

 

[Smurfy]

yeah if you can do it without falling over

 

[binö]

for chicks? yeah probably.

luckily nobody sees me do them
but i'm sore as fug

 

[Smurfy]

luckily nobody sees me do them
but i'm sore as fug

hell yeah. you get a great stretch of the muscle doing lunges

 

[binö]

hell yeah. you get a great stretch of the muscle doing lunges

smith machine, so i don't fall over or trip

 

[lartinos]

never did them, i feel awkward doing them. I'm a little tall too so it makes it harder to do I think.

 

[Jocques Straap]

Effective at what?

Building mass, no not really.

But very effective for enhancing unilateral stability, improving mobility, function and correcting imbalance. Once you get better at them they can become an effective strength exercise as well, or endurance exercise.

 

[SaiBoT]

If you mean walking lunges with a barbell I have to say yes, if you say side lunges yes, if you say jumping lunges it's yes too! Those are good for functional hypertrophy, the kind of of strength you can actually use for something like kicking some smartasses...

 

[FunFun]

For bodybuilding I would say that lunges have a high risk to benefit ratio.

They often produce DOM due to the extreme eccentric (negative) nature of the movement. Basically you're braking an accelerated load. I think a lot of guys confuse this DOM with actual mass building benefit.

Definitely avoid this movement if you have any sign of weakness in the knee.