Rear Lunge from Deficit

Cómo hacer el Rear Lunge from Deficit

1. 1Stand tall on an elevated surface such as a weight plate or low step, with your feet hip-width apart and your arms at your sides or hands on your hips for balance.
2. 2Engage your core and fix your gaze on a point straight ahead to help maintain balance throughout the movement.
3. 3Step one foot back and down off the elevated surface, placing the ball of that foot on the floor behind you.
4. 4Lower your back knee toward the floor in a controlled descent, allowing your front knee to track directly over your front foot.
5. 5Sink until your front thigh is parallel to the floor — or as deep as your hip mobility comfortably allows — feeling a stretch through the hip flexor of the trailing leg and the glutes of the front leg.
6. 6Keep your torso upright and your front heel firmly pressed into the elevated surface throughout the descent.
7. 7Drive through your front heel to push yourself back up to the starting position, bringing your rear foot back onto the elevated surface.
8. 8Complete all reps on one side before switching legs, or alternate legs each rep.

Consejos de técnica

• Press your front heel firmly into the elevated surface at the bottom of the movement — this shifts emphasis onto the glutes and keeps your knee tracking correctly.
• Keep your torso tall and avoid leaning forward at the hips; a slight forward lean is acceptable, but excessive lean reduces glute activation and stresses the lower back.
• Control the descent rather than dropping quickly — the increased range of motion makes this variation more demanding on the joints, so slow and deliberate reps are safer and more effective.
• Start with a small deficit (a single weight plate) and progress to a higher elevation only once you can maintain full control and upright posture at the bottom.
• If balance is challenging, hold a wall or rack lightly with one hand until you build the coordination required for the freestanding version.

Errores comunes

• Letting the front knee cave inward (valgus collapse), which stresses the knee joint and reduces glute activation — actively push the knee out in line with the second toe.
• Allowing the front heel to rise off the elevated surface at the bottom, which shifts load onto the knee and away from the glutes and takes away the deficit advantage.
• Leaning the torso excessively forward, which reduces the range of motion benefit of the deficit and overloads the lower back instead of the target muscles.
• Using too high an elevation before building the necessary hip mobility, causing the pelvis to tuck under and the lower back to round at the bottom.
• Rushing through reps and losing balance, which shortens the effective range of motion and increases fall risk — control the pace on both the descent and ascent.

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