How to do the DB Walking Lunge, step by step
- Hold the dumbbells at your sides or rest them on your shoulders.
- Take a big step forward.
- Lower until your back knee lightly touches the floor.
- Stand up through your front foot and bring your back leg forward.
- Keep going with the other leg, torso upright.
Common mistakes and how to fix them
- Knee slamming into the floorlower under control
- Front knee caving inkeep your knee over your foot
- Steps too shorttake a longer stride
How to scale the DB Walking Lunge
If you can't do the movement cleanly yet or the workout is too heavy, use one of these variations:
- No weight
- Reverse Lunge in place
- Lighter dumbbells
Also known as
Db lunge · Dbwl
Benchmarks with DB Walking Lunge
- Open 17.212 min AMRAP: 15 m DB Walking Lunge (2 × 22.5 kg), 16 Toes-to-Bar, 8 DB Power Cleans; every 2 rounds, swap Toes-to-Bar for 16 Bar Muscle-ups
- Open 25.115 min AMRAP: 3 Lateral Burpees over the dumbbell, 3 DB Hang Clean-to-Overhead 22.5 kg, 9 m Walking Lunge (2 × 4.5 m); +3 Burpees and +3 Hang Clean-to-Overhead each round. Score: reps
These descriptions are general guidance and don't replace a coach. Have someone at your box show you new movements, and stop if anything hurts.