{"id":638269,"date":"2026-08-15T07:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/638269\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T07:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:25:20","slug":"this-coach-swapped-traditional-cardio-for-daily-walking-lunges-heres-why-he-calls-them-a-cheat-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/638269\/","title":{"rendered":"This Coach Swapped Traditional Cardio for Daily Walking Lunges \u2013 Here’s Why He Calls Them a ‘Cheat Code’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Training legs every day isn’t for everyone \u2013 but coach Cory Gregory reckons routinely performing walking lunges<\/a> offers enough benefits to make you reconsider.<\/p>\n

Gregory isn’t a fan of running or traditional cardio, so instead he uses extended bouts of walking lunges to work on his conditioning. He first started the habit a decade ago and is currently more than 120 consecutive days into his latest streak, regularly covering between 400 and 800 metres.<\/p>\n

‘Walking lunges as your conditioning each day are a cheat code,’ Gregory says<\/a>. ‘It helps with strengthening your lower body, helps with your balance, helps with your endurance, lactic acid threshold, overall body awareness, and you can do it anywhere.’<\/p>\n

And because spending that much time lunging could become fairly monotonous, Gregory has found a way to kill two birds with one stone. He calls it ‘lunge and learn’: listening to an audiobook or podcast while completing his reps.<\/p>\n

‘I found a magic between the conditioning and the learning especially after lifting weights that has made me a way better smarter wiser person because I study life everyday in some capacity,’ he adds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How to Try the Walking Lunge Challenge<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Gregory doesn’t suggest jumping straight into 800 metres of lunges.<\/p>\n

Instead, he recommends starting with just one minute on your first day, then gradually adding an extra minute each day. The first few sessions will be tough, but Gregory says your body should begin adapting to the workload, allowing you to progressively increase the duration.<\/p>\n

He claims it takes around 12 days to become accustomed to the effort, describing the habit as ‘super rewarding’ and saying it ‘helps you build an absolute machine of a body’.<\/p>\n

His rules are simple: don’t take an additional step between lunges and make sure your back knee touches the ground on every rep. If you’ve ever tackled lunges in Hyrox<\/a>, the movement standard will feel familiar.<\/p>\n

You certainly don’t need to lunge every day to benefit from the exercise, but gradually building your volume could offer a very different conditioning challenge from another session on the treadmill.<\/p>\n

How to Do Walking Lunges<\/p>\n