Lunge Sprint

QuadsMachineIntermediateCompound
Lunge Sprint — start position
Start
Lunge Sprint — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryQuads
SecondaryCalves, Glutes, Hamstrings

How to do it

  1. 01

    Adjust a bar in a Smith machine to an appropriate height. Position yourself under the bar, racking it across the back of your shoulders. Unrack the bar, and then split your feet, moving one foot forward and one foot back. This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    Lower your back knee nearly to the ground, flexing the knees and lowering your hips as you do so.

  3. 03

    At the bottom of the descent, immediately reverse direction. Explosively drive through the heel of your front foot with light pressure from your back foot. Jump up and reverse the position of your legs.

  4. 04

    Repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions.

In the app

Lunge Sprint appears when you own the machine and the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have the machine

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

With barbell
With bodyweight
With dumbbell

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