Paige Spiranac

Tennis players wear sleeveless tops and skirts with spandex shorts so that they can hit, reach, and lunge for the ball effectively. Similarly, in order to perform at the optimal level, golfers need to be able to rotate, extend, crouch, and bend, often in extreme weather conditions for up to five or six hours at a time.

American Athlete

Ann Voskamp

In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.

Canadian Author

I can't always get to the gym, but I make a gym wherever I am: on the floor or on a yoga mat with bodyweight-bearing exercises like sit-ups and crunches, push-ups, lunges, squats.

American Musician

Martina McBride

I'm not fond of crunches or lunges, but I do them anyway because I do see results. For me it's about being fit and staying healthy more than anything else.

Rahul Dev

My fitness approach and philosophy are based on day-to-day functionalities. These functions are bending, lifting, lunging, pulling, pushing and squatting.

Indian Actor

Gunnar Peterson

I have nothing against tricep kickbacks, but I'd rather have you do a skater's lunge with a kickback and get a lower body workout.

American Businessman

LeSean McCoy

Being explosive, quick, elusive and fast helps my game, so I do tons of lunges, leg press and different explosion type of runs.

American Football Player

Joe Root

I do a lot of free weights in the gym, with lots of squats, lunges and push-pull exercises to help develop strength and power.

English Athlete

Richard Simmons

Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.

American Celebrity

Denise Austin

American Author

Describes a brisk movement towards something, often with the intent to grab or catch.

Physical Action

Can refer to any quick attempt or initiative, not just physical ones.

Metaphorical Use

Often implies a sudden, possibly aggressive, move towards someone or something.

Aggressive Implication

Using 'lunge' emphasizes a deliberate and sudden action taken by someone.

Intentional Action

When lunging, the direction is often specified, like 'forward', 'at', or 'towards'.

Directionality

In martial arts or combat, to 'lunge' means to thrust forward to attack.

Combat Connection

This type of 'lunge' is a fitness exercise meant to strengthen the legs.

Strength Exercise

Good form in lunges involves keeping the back straight and not letting your knee go past your toes.

Proper Form

There are different types of lunges, such as side lunges or walking lunges, to work different muscles.

Variations Available

 tiger suddenly lunged from the forest you needed quit fight-or-flight and I take this Tiger what do I run from this tiger but he did to be instantaneous almost like a reflex so I think fear is tapped into that we all know that and we all have felt afraid in our lives and it's a feeling that in many ways you

Jason Silva on Fear PIPE...

 is, fear is a bad advisor. We lunge towards the extremes when we aren't operating and trying to, again, calibrate our relationship to the world around us. Fourth and final he somehow, because he was working in all the world's worst places and all lesser evils, had a humility, of course,

Samantha Power: Shaking...

 and I did what a firefighter was supposed to I lunged forward, opened up the water and I tackled the fire myself. The explosion had been caused by a water heater, so nobody was hurt, and ultimately it was not a big deal, but later Skip came up to me and said,

To raise brave girls,...

 dive we came back the next day and boom a bigger leopard seal starts lunging at us and that's why you don and I said we could be done this projects over and if you're on wasn't his experience as he is here's sorry this is this is the special part of

Paul Nicklen: Emperors...

 In many ways, the sheer size of krill seems to have driven the evolution of the blue whale. See, krill are so small but are found in dense patches. For increased efficiency, blue whales have evolved to use a feeding strategy called lunge feeding.

Why are blue whales so...

 turn against strangers and sometimes the very people who are trying to help her at the shelter Vivian constantly growled and lunged at her caregivers making her dangerous to handle the group she was with had told us that you know she was pretty

Katrina Dogs PIPE National...

 with my machine gun ready. He lunges for his Luger. I knock it out of his hand. He lunges for his cyanide pill. I knock that out of his hand. He snarls, comes at me with otherworldly strength. We grapple, we fight, I manage to pin him down

The biology of our best...

 Lunging into the possum's nest looks suicidal, yet the monitor seems hardly to notice the possum's bite.

Monitor Lizard Fights...

 The rest follow in formation. Each takes exactly the same position in every lunge.

Whales' Bubble Net...

 now it's life-saving time he lunges at me my instincts took over

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