Plate Overhead Walking Lunges
- Stand holding a weight plate. Before lifting, contract your abdominal muscles and put a slight bend in the elbows. Lift the plate above your head, maintaining the bend in the elbows.
- Contract the core as you step forward with the left leg. Simultaneously, lower the right knee near the ground.
- Pause, feel the contraction in your left leg then step forward with the right, returning to the starting position.
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Plate overhead walking lunges is a gym work out exercise that targets hamstrings and quadriceps and shoulders and also involves abs and biceps and calves and glutes & hip flexors and triceps. Refer to the illustration diagram and instructions above for how to perform this exercise correctly. Barbell clean and press / jerk / overhead press, standing quad stretch and standing arm circles are related exercise that target the same muscle groups as plate overhead walking lunges. Visit our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises to try in your workouts.
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