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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.
Done in this manner, the barbell lunge, similarly to a proper barbell squat engages all the muscles of the leg â glutes (butt), quads (front of the upper leg) and hamstrings (back of the upper leg). Most people do lunges mainly as a quad exercise. This is a huge mistake.