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Barbell curtsy lunge

A compound exercise for the glutes and adductors, with help from the quads. Equipment: barbell and squat rack.

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How to do it

  1. Setup: Bar on your upper back, feet hip width.
  2. Step back and across behind the front leg
  3. Lower with control and drive back up

Muscles worked

Barbell curtsy lunge: 3D figure mid-rep with the glutes and adductors highlighted

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