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2. Tone your calves with these 20 simple exercises - AOL

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   Learn calf muscle anatomy and the best calf exercises for your leg workout to improve strength, balance, stability and to run faster, according to a personal trainer. Tone your calves with these ...

3. The best exercises to tone your legs – no weights required

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   The legs and glutes are the largest muscles in the body, which means you should exercise them — at most — every other day. It’s essential to give leg muscles a 24-hour rest period at minimum ...

4. At 67, Denise Austin Demonstrates ‘Quickie’ Workout ... - AOL

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   Denise Austin started a hot leg series just in time for summer—in a new video, she shares simple moves to tone “sexy, strong” legs and boost metabolism. At 67, Denise Austin Demonstrates ...

5. Leg press - Wikipedia

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   The leg press is a compound weight training exercise in which the individual pushes a weight or resistance away from them using their legs. The term leg press machine refers to the apparatus used to perform this exercise. [1] The leg press can be used to evaluate an athlete's overall lower body strength (from the gluteus Maximus to the lower ...

6. Calf raises - Wikipedia

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   Bridging exercises are done with a flexed knee to lessen the stretch on the hamstring (a knee flexor) and focus the hip extension work on the gluteus maximus. In that same respect, the reduced knee flexion makes plantar flexion work comparable to a seated calf raise, due to the lessened stretch on the gastrocnemius (like the hamstring, also a knee flexor).

7. Lunge (exercise) - Wikipedia

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   Lunges are a good exercise for strengthening, sculpting and building several muscles/muscle groups, including the quadriceps (or thighs), the gluteus maximus (or buttocks) as well as the hamstrings. [5] A long lunge emphasizes the use of the gluteals whereas a short lunge emphasizes the quadriceps.