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How to Perform Single-Arm Dumbbell Slideboard Reverse Lunges

ByMike Collins

Fitness fans, ready to take your training to heroic heights? Try the single-arm dumbbell slideboard reverse lunge. This full-body exercise engages glutes, quads, hamstrings and core for a sculpted posterior chain that'll turn heads faster than Clark Kent in a phone booth. All you need is a dumbbell and slideboard. Start with 3 sets of 8 reps on each side; increase weight as muscles strengthen. Not just for gym rats – this movement has sports carryover too! Plus it helps prevent injury and improve balance due to its single-arm challenge. Endless variations keep workouts fresh – so grab your cape and gear up!

Instructions

  1. If you want to get strong, but remain graceful, try dangling a dumbbell like a cape on the same side as your trailing leg.
  2. Lower with your weight on your forward heel – as if you have an invisible string connecting your foot and the ground below it – and keep your back in check with tight abs and slight rib pull-down. Don't let yourself arch or open up at the bottom: stay squared forward!
  3. When you drive upward, imagine the floor is heated lava and you must leap from one safe spot to the next without looking down or getting burned – keep your knee tracked straight ahead over your toes for maximum safety!
  4. Now, feel the power of Proteus has given you: with each move, get closer and closer to defying gravity itself with strength AND poise until you stand tall again at peak position!
  5. You can do this, you are strong! Time to soar again – let's go!

This full-body exercise engages glutes, quads, hamstrings and core for a sculpted posterior chain that'll turn heads faster than Clark Kent in a phone booth. All you need is a dumbbell and slideboard. Start with 3 sets of 8 reps on each side; increase weight as muscles strengthen. Not just for gym rats – this movement has sports carryover too! Plus it helps prevent injury and improve balance due to its single-arm challenge. Endless variations keep workouts fresh – so grab your cape and gear up!