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Sam Hopes

Forget lunges — sculpt your legs and glutes with these 5 exercises and 1 dumbbell

Man performing a single-arm dumbbell squat against a wall.

Lunges are a divisive lower body exercise to program on leg day; if you have knee issues, some people find even reverse lunges are off the table.

The leg exercise is brilliant at strengthening your glutes, quads, hamstrings and calf muscles while stretching your hip flexors. Still, if you’ve crossed lunges off the list, you only need these five lower-body exercises and one of the best adjustable dumbbells to activate your glutes and blow up your legs.

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