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A woman doing lunges on the beach. Photo Credit jodiejohnson/iStock/Getty Images. Lunges are a compound exercise, which articulate your knee and hip joints and activate over 10 different muscles in your lower body. The primary muscles used in lunges are your quadriceps. Each quadricep muscle comprises four smaller muscle segments, which attach to different parts of lower body skeletal structures. Take shorter lunge strides to maximize quadriceps activation while performing lunges.
Work several muscle groups with lunges. Lunges are are generally performed to strengthen and sculpt the thighs and buttocks. While they may be considered a body weight exercise -- that is, an exercise that uses your body weight as resistance -- they can also be done while holding weights to increase the difficulty.ips. All three of the hip, or gluteal muscles, are worked out during lunges. The gluteus maximus is the primary muscle worked and is used extensively to extend the hips. You can target this muscle more intensely during the exercise by using very large steps.