space problem with walking lunges - suggestions?

[WRITER]

Although my space is pretty large, I can't seem to get in four walking lunges for the walking lunges on Drill Max -- even going diagonal. I don't want to make my lunges smaller, then I risk getting the knee over the ankle.

I tried doing two in one direction and then turning, but then I get completely off Cathe's beat.

Has anyone found a way to modify this move for space, keeping the same intensity and beat?

I actually love this move, including the shoulder raises --

 

[beth6395]

I have to line up with the door leading out of the room turn and come back I also have to do it with the agility drills as well as some of the step with grapevines off the side.

beth6395

 

[Boybert]

I have the same problem. I just have to turn for the last one. Just do the best you can to stay on beat. I know it's not the greatest solution but unless you knock down a wall, it'll have to do


Debbie


My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
--Ellen Degeneres

 

[kathryn]

I haven't done the 4 in Drill Max yet (I did the ones in Butts and Guts, and the cardio/upper body premix from Drill Max, which doesn't have them in), but if there are 4, I will have the same problem. I can do the 3 in B&G, but that takes all my sideways space. Could you do the ones in DM like the ones in B&G? (Three lunges forward, turn front for a pulsing squat, then three the other way?)

How about going two forward, and two backward (no turn)? (In an issue of Muscle and Fitness Hers, there was a short article on how backward movement (backward lunges, stepping backward off a step, etc) focus more on the glutes and hamstrings than does forward movement).

 

[dutchgirl]

I did four alternating front lunges and then just turned around. I didn't even need to make the turn, but did it anyway just to keep in line with Cathe's movements.

 

[kathryn]

I have been thinking about this, and I haven't tried this, but what about doing two walking lunges forward, then two static, plyo-lunge leg switches? Then turn around and start with the other leg (can't try this out right now, because I'm at the office!). The plyo lunges keep the intensity up, but don't take up any more forward room.

 

[andtckrtoo]

As they are lunge-step-lunge - I simply do them around my step (in a circle). And then back again. I get two, one and one, so I simply turn around and do them back to the starting point.

 

[aschendell]

I just kind of walk around the furniture in my family room!! I would imagine you could walk around in a kind of square and still get the job done..Good luck and happy lunging!


Debra

Bite off more than you can chew. Then chew it---Ella Williams

 

[kristieschultz]

same problem here. I just did two and a turn, two and a turn etc.

 

[WRITER]

These are all great ideas, thanks for the responses! I will try several of these and see which works best. Again, I appreciate all these suggestions -- I just couldn't get the creative possibilities going for some reason.

 

[Amy Steppe]

I love Drill Max, but my main problem with it is that it takes up entirely too much space to be executed the way it is choreographed.

I also have no free wall or door, so that part of Drill Max is a part I can't do.

I also have the same trouble with Butts and Guts -- those walking lunges, if done correctly, take up way too much space.

I am quite petite at 5'1" and have a short stride and I still find myself out of room.

So frustrating!x(

 

[Amy Steppe]

Kathryn,

That sounds like an excellent idea.

I am going to give it a try tomorrow (tonight's all cardio).

Thanks for the suggestion!