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Monday Facetime. Lunges.
By MizFit | August 25, 2008
We’re a little less Blair Witch than last time.
**you may need to do this in the bathroom/in a hallway/ANYWHERE sans carpet.
or come over. you can always drop by the domicile & lunge up in herre.
(want more lungestuff? go check out Fitarella. Mightcould be more Miz than you want—–but you’ll have that, I guess.)
Topics: Monday Facetime |
August 25th, 2008 at 2:46 am
Look I KNOW I need to wipe down my kitchen floor, but you don’t have to trick me into it by telling me it’s exercise….
(good moves!)
TA x
August 25th, 2008 at 3:17 am
We live in an old house where none of the floors are completely level. This would make lunging just a wee bit tricker…
August 25th, 2008 at 3:24 am
I love me some lunges! : Good stuff!
August 25th, 2008 at 4:07 am
TA? it is all a ploy to get YOU on a plane to come to my house and wipe down *my* floors (it’s as fun as the Italian countryside!! Almost!!)
alas, you figured it out.
and Kim? THAT’S HALF THE FUN! (for you anyway. Im now thankful for my boring, not coolold flat floors)
extra core-stabilizing work for you…
Miz.
August 25th, 2008 at 4:08 am
I would substitute the towel for a Swiffer wet thingie and mop the floor while I lunged.
August 25th, 2008 at 4:17 am
I see the theme here in the comments - get a workout, clean the floors! Or, MizFit, maybe it’s just a hint that in addition to getting exercise, we need keep our kitchens in a little better condition!
Lunges - they can be a pain in the …, well, actually they can be a pain in a few spots. And that’s a good thing!
So, I’m off to clean the floor……..
August 25th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Hey It’s cheaper then the Valslide:)
BTW Nice legs!
August 25th, 2008 at 5:23 am
Pick a room, any room. I wonder if my son would think this is fun. If I could get him to do this in every room of the house…..
Have a nice day.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Trying this while making dinner tonight! Hopefully I don’t drop dinner on the floor haha
August 25th, 2008 at 5:27 am
I always loved the *promise* of the Valslides…and then I realized they loved the promise of my money.
anyone beg to differ?
Id love to hear!
(erica? we’ve established Im not picky. should you plop the food on floor fed ex to me. there’s a good chance it’s better (still!) than what Im offering up in herre.)
Miz.
August 25th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Living in a small apartment, I’m sadly lacking in floorspace (unless I ditch the coffee table or move it …)
But perhaps this is a reason to visit the Miz and clean her floors for her … I mean lunge in her kitchen!
August 25th, 2008 at 6:19 am
A “dish” towel!! What a great idea!
August 25th, 2008 at 6:19 am
Looks tough. Should do try it though. You don’t use weights on lunges, do you?
Back to work today…boo
August 25th, 2008 at 6:19 am
Gemfit? SisterFriend? that’s your weight training.
move coffee table (3 sets of 12 repmoves) and lunge until you drop.
then email me.
Ill summon 911.
Miz., who doesnt ever use weights with lunges. more a fear of injuring a 39 yo knee than anything else….
August 25th, 2008 at 6:23 am
For the carpet-bound, try paper plates! Or pieces of wax paper/freezer paper. Or the plastic tops of your tupperware. They all slide well across carpet, I’ve tried.
Unfortunately, they don’t clean the carpet, just make the dog and cat hair bunch up at both ends of the sliding area, making it even more obvious that you need to vacuum. Or is that just me?
August 25th, 2008 at 6:26 am
IMO, Gena, paper plates work the best (if by BEST you mean they gliiide smoothly over any bullmastiff hair w/out bunching/making me feel like a worse housecleaner than I already do——which I do).
Thanks for the tip!
Miz.
August 25th, 2008 at 6:34 am
I’m a fan of lunges and I love that you show ways to do stuff at home! I’ll definitely have to try that dishtowel trick when I can’t get to my gliding class
August 25th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Love the lunges! Thanks for the demo…
August 25th, 2008 at 7:00 am
how fun….sliding around in my kitchen! I think I may have 4 little recruits in my kitchen gym though! Happy Monday Miz
August 25th, 2008 at 7:01 am
i did lunges in Colorado this weekend and nearly passed out after 8 of them. My God, is that air thin!
August 25th, 2008 at 7:12 am
annette? *four recruits*?!
What I wouldn’t give for a video of THAT lungestravaganza.
Miz.
August 25th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Hmmmmm, maybe this is a good way to trick my niece into cleaning my floors? I like the swifter idea
Giving this a try!
Susan
August 25th, 2008 at 7:17 am
It’s the val-slide!!! But without the ridiculous pricetag!
My other fave is to do the same thing (but I use plastic plates on carpet) to do push-ups. It takes me forever to feel a good burn on lunges or push-ups but add something slidy and I’m sore in 10! Thanks for keeping fitness real and doable for all of us.
August 25th, 2008 at 7:20 am
Okay, honestly? I’m not even kidding, I love this. Because I somehow injured my neck this weekend and can’t really do much with my upper body, yet I desperately NEED to clean my floors before the MIL shows up this week. So, you know, this is perfect. Total Lower Body Floor Cleaning.
S.L.A.P. to me.
V.
August 25th, 2008 at 7:21 am
What a neat new way to do lunges. Thanks!
August 25th, 2008 at 7:23 am
*kisses V full on the mouth for her utilization of the failed fraze S.L.A.P.*
August 25th, 2008 at 7:23 am
That is a clever variation on lunges, one I will have to give a try to, though not today since I lunged out my legs already at the gym this morning. ugh, lunges tend to be the bane of my existence but I DO like the visible results!
August 25th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Hey Miz,
I have been doing that a form of that lunge for years on my carpets. How, you might ask? Paper plates!
I also do a version where the leg with the plate not only travels back but on the way up I sweep through and lunge to the front as well. I keeps constant and varied tension on my glutes and really sets them on fire.
On another note I have been so busy with school lately that I have had no time to blog or even read blogs much. I have missed it.
Jenn
August 25th, 2008 at 7:37 am
No one else has commented yet on my favorite part of the video, which is where the lovely miz smacks her own glutes? Or is this a trademark move that I’ve somehow missed due to my relative newness to the site?
Maybe I’m just in a silly, good mood because today I will be trying these lunges and NOT push-ups. I could lunge all day if it meant not doing push-ups…
August 25th, 2008 at 7:38 am
I love lunges — I feel like they are one of those exercises that give me the most bang for my buck.
I saw some random show on Fit TV the other day where a personal trainer had her clients do lunges with her toe pressed up gagainst a pole in front of her. That way when she lunged back, her knee could not go over her toe — it would stop at the pole.
It was one of those moments when you go, why have I never though of something so sinmple and so brilliant?
August 25th, 2008 at 7:41 am
I love me some lunges! Can’t get enough of them! (and ironically I had a lunge post that was planned for today, but changed my mind at the last minute.) Great minds really do think alike!
August 25th, 2008 at 7:42 am
wait. I S.L.A.P. my own arse?
Now I need to rewatch and I just filmed this yesterday.
jenn? haley? LOVE your suggestions….
Miz.
August 25th, 2008 at 7:43 am
ooooh i love these! i’ll be trying out these slidey lunges today…
thanks miz!
August 25th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Hmmmm…I do lunges quite a bit, but have never tried a slide lunge! Unfortunately my kitchen is about the size of my desk, soooo….will have to head over your place!
I should send over Bad Cat to “help” you like he “helps” me when I exercise.
Maybe I can do these without falling over! Am I the most uncoordinated person in the world or what?
August 25th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Apparently I also have no time to spell check. Sorry! It should be “doing a form of that lunge” and “It keeps constant”
Jenn
August 25th, 2008 at 7:47 am
That looks like a fun lunge. I will give it a try. Hopefully, my tile floors will be slippy enough. (or if not, I guess it will be that much better!)
August 25th, 2008 at 7:48 am
This is a great idea. I’ve done the whole paper plate thing (works great on carpet!) with a side lunge (killer butt workout!), but somehow never thought of doing something similar on a regular lunge.
When the knee is better, I’ll give it a whirl.
August 25th, 2008 at 7:50 am
I know I was missing something. I used to watch my kids clean up a spill using the same method and all the time I thought they were lazy. Now I see that they were just showing how to do proper lunges.
Another great video for the vault.
August 25th, 2008 at 7:55 am
I too love lunges… legs exercises in general… and your legs Mizfit, rrrrrrrr!
August 25th, 2008 at 7:57 am
My butt hurts just watching that video. Or it may be from the squats I did at the gym this morning. I’m glad someone mentioned paper plates. I’m in apartment living cheap carpet hell up in here!
August 25th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Dang. You make exercising look so easy, the Bag Lady is actually tempted to try it sometimes!
Then she comes to her senses. Wonder how long it would take her to clean her 3000-sq-ft house this way? Pretty sure she’d play out before she got out of the bathroom……
August 25th, 2008 at 8:05 am
I’m another lunge lover (or any lower body exercise for that matter). That move looks like it really gets the core as well when you’re sliding back forward.
I love all of MizFits creative moves:)!!
August 25th, 2008 at 8:10 am
definitely off do some of those right now
Good way to get me off my duff !!
August 25th, 2008 at 8:23 am
did some lunges at the playground while my boys played yesterday…..SORE today!
i like the towel, gliding idea…looks much smoother and easier on the joints than my wobbly regular lunges.
off to clean my wood floors of st. bernard hair!:)
August 25th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Looove lunges - never tried ‘em with a towel!! Good plan!
August 25th, 2008 at 8:54 am
OMG! Is there anything you don’t come up with? Get your own show please.
Thanks for the comment yesterday….
August 25th, 2008 at 8:57 am
I’m with those above. I could these as moving lunges and actually clean the floor! Couldn’t I?
But not today. Adam the trainer is torturing me today. I see lots of work with the graviton, tons of triceps, and lunges!
August 25th, 2008 at 8:57 am
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Miz., who is desperate this morning for an AdamTrainer of her own.
August 25th, 2008 at 9:06 am
I would get one heck of a workout if I did that around my house because my entire house is tile.
So what was that about the comment on my blog? hehe
August 25th, 2008 at 9:33 am
MizFit…sorry I don’t have time to read through all the posts so I apologize if anyone’s mentioned this…
Have you tried gliding? I taught it for a while and while it didn’t work for a whole class (wasn’t very popular), it’s very much like that, you can either use towels or paper plates for the same think. Lots of things you can do in a plank with them. And damn do my muscles hurt the next day!
August 25th, 2008 at 9:34 am
I think this is brilliant… combining cleaning with a real workout. That would make a great idea for a book… hmmmn….
August 25th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Do you have concrete floors??? If so, I am jealous.
August 25th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Ooo, I never would have thought about sliding lunges! I’m definitely trying these soon, the regular ones I do are getting mighty boring, and I’ve been needing something to switch it up! Thanks!
August 25th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Do you have concrete floors???
if by (fingerquote) concrete (unFQ) you mean dirty wood then YES!!
Miz.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Wow that looks like a challenge! Take that infomercial exercise gear!
You have uh-maze-ing biceps/triceps, by the way.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Miz - I just realised that I had never visited your site before now! So sorry! Love it and love you! Going to add you to my llive-it journey blog roll. Will be back often
August 25th, 2008 at 10:37 am
In the kitchen, I usually just lunge for a cookie, but this looks kind of fun!
August 25th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I love to do leg exercise, my problem is that my flat a** seem to never catch-up with my thighs and legs…
August 25th, 2008 at 11:26 am
I can never see the videos anymore…must be some blocking issues on my work computer
August 25th, 2008 at 11:54 am
I love lunges and never thought to do them in the kitchen with a dish towel. Love it! Thank you!
August 25th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
You must have seriously clean floors as well as seriously muscular legs!
August 25th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I am loving those sliding lunges and that you aren’t wearing shoes. I never want to wear shoes when lunging, squatting, etc.
Heather
August 25th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
An old dishtowel and some floor cleaner *with* the lunge would make the world a cleaner place to be.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Woohoo! So next time my son spills some of his milk on the floor, which is often, I’ll just mop it up with some lunges. I want to see the look on his face the first time I try this technique! Mommy is nutty.
August 25th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Thanks for a great new way to do lunges! looks like a great way to get the floor clean, too!
August 25th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
You are in kick ass shape! Thanks for the great take on lunges!
mom of 4
August 25th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Very cool!! I’m totally going to have to try this!
August 25th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I think I am re-entering the world of having time to comment on blogs and I was so happy that I could start it off with some mizfit face time!
Now if only you could heal my knee so I could actually do lunges!!
sweets&sweats.wordpress.com
August 25th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Love the kitchen workout! I will be trying these for sure. Thanks, MizFit!
August 25th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
laughing that it never occurred to me to CLEAN THE FLOOR before taping this.
that people might actually look.
duly noted
Miz.
August 25th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Cathe Friedrich had us doing some lunges like this and going other directions with our rags (she had little red rags for us in her gym) at her Road Trip. I think she’s going to have some of that in her next big weights series, so I’d better start practicing now….
August 25th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Interesting!
I’m normally suspicious of new exercises, but I just might give this a try.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I actually think that kinda looks like fun. But I am probably fooling myself and were I to try it, would find that it would kill me. Either because it was hard work, or because I would slip on the towel (very likely knowing me).
August 25th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
My quads suck! Even when I was working out with a trainer on a regular basis, I could never get them stretched and strong. You know the little quad stretch you did at the end? I could never do it - even at my peak.
I might have to try your recommendation, to see if it helps. Thanks!
PS - Has anybody told you lately that you rock?? Seriously - thanks for the time you take do post all this good stuff.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
pattie? THANK
YOU.
(And JavaChick? I guess that depends on one’s definition of ‘fun’….please to make me a list of your other fun thangs. Mine? Wine, movies, Ren Man, dancing with the Toddler Torando——nary a lunge on the list ;))
August 25th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
You rock those lunges, MizFit!
August 25th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
B-R-I-L-L-A-N-T….love them, love them, love them. Maybe I’ll also spray a little Pledge on the rag and clean up dog prints all over my wood floors!
August 25th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
i could use that as a way to clean our kitchen floor, but our floor is way too nasty to do so. i get enough of an arm workout scrubbing the crap off the floor.
and i know lunges. walking lunges, stationary lunges, side lunges, diagonal lunges, backward lunges off a step … lungelungelunge.
that being said, they’re awesome of course.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Thanks I love the demo. Once again, your legs look amazing.. Actually everything on you looks amazing. Do you do any of those body builder competitions? You should lady! I love to be able to do new things at home so I don’t look like a newbie freak out in public! BTW, big shocker but I have those same Nike running shorts…in pink too :).
August 25th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Lunges used to be my most favorite workout for my lower body - until I had to have bilateral knee surgery and they cause extreme pain! I’m jealous that you can do those!
August 25th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Hee. I keep having visions of my back leg sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiding all the way out until, WHAM! I end up falling over. *giggle* I’m not sure if it would be more painful than fun, or more fun than painful.
Hey, what do you do if you have bad knees?
August 25th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I havn’t done anything like that since I was severn
August 26th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Neat, Mizfit! Me thinks these lunges will help us marathon runners to stretch the sore quads after a long run as well. Thanks!
August 26th, 2008 at 3:56 am
here’s MY chant:
BAD KNEES? DONT DO THESE!
BAD KNEES? PASS ON THESE!
Id do other things with clients (and lots of water running) but never lunges in that instance…
Miz.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Hey Miz, I usually look at your blog Via my iPod Touch and For some reason the video wasn’t there??? so decided to get on my computer tonight and check it out. I’ve actually thought of starting to do lunges for the last few weeks. I am doing 3 sets of 15 reps each. i have a ? for u? do you recommend doing them daily or so many times a week? I usually do mine at work. do you recommend doing them all at once or how about one set as you find time.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
I have a bad knee.
I guess I will have to pass on this one. Too bad because my whole house is hardwood floors. It would have been easy to do these.
August 31st, 2008 at 9:13 am
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