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2. 12 Squat Variations for Better Leg Day Workouts - AOL

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   Squats are a compound exercise, which means you'll use multiple large muscle groups when you add them to your workout plan. When you squat, you'll engage the biggest muscle groups in your legs ...

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

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   Squat Stand with your feet as wide as your shoulders, toes pointing forward. Pull your navel in toward your spine, and then sit back by bending at your knees and reaching your glutes back as if ...

4. Squat (exercise) - Wikipedia

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   The barbell back squat Bodyweight squat. A squat is a strength exercise in which the trainee lowers their hips from a standing position and then stands back up. During the descent, the hip and knee joints flex while the ankle joint dorsiflexes; conversely the hip and knee joints extend and the ankle joint plantarflexes when standing up.

5. Calf raises - Wikipedia

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   The exercise is performed from a seated position while the weight rests on the upper leg, just above the knee. The person engaged in this exercise lifts the weight by pushing down on the balls of the feet. [1] Due to the discomfort of higher weights on a bar, barbells used for seated calf raises are frequently padded or wrapped in a towel.

6. List of weight training exercises - Wikipedia

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   If a weight is used, then it rests upon the shoulders, or is held in the hand(s). This is an isolation exercise for the calves; it particularly emphasises the gastrocnemius muscle, and recruits the soleus muscle. [6] Equipment Body weight, dumbbells, barbell, Smith machine or standing calf raise machine. Major variants

7. Bodyweight exercise - Wikipedia

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   A bodyweight squat exercise requires little space and no equipment. After squatting down an individual returns to standing while moving their arms back to their sides. The height of the squat can be adjusted higher or lower depending on individual requirements (i.e., someone unaccustomed to exercise may instead perform half or quarter squats).