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Smitch Machine Lunges

Stand inside a Smith machine with the bar across your upper back. Step one leg forward or backward and lower your body until your back knee nearly touches the ground. Press through your front heel to return. Keep your torso upright.

GLUTES · LOWER BODY

Smitch Machine Lunges: how the movement is executed

How it is executed

  1. Stand inside a Smith machine with the bar across your upper back.
  2. Step one leg forward or backward and lower your body until your back knee nearly touches the ground.
  3. Press through your front heel to return.
  4. Keep your torso upright.
Muscles worked
Glutes
Primary muscle
Gluteus maximus
Equipment
Smith machine
Movement pattern
Lower body
Difficulty
Intermediate
What it is for
StrengthHypertrophyStability

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