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

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   The thighs do most of the work when you're biking or cycling indoors, but the calves do a lot of stabilizing, so higher resistance will make the calves work harder. Best calf exercises at home ...

3. 10 Best Exercises for Women Over 50 To Live Longer

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   We spoke with Rachel MacPherson, an ACE-certified personal trainer with Garage Gym Reviews, who shares a list of the 10 best exercises for women over 50 to live longer, more vibrant lives. 1 ...

4. 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).

5. Calisthenics - Wikipedia

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   A full body calisthenics workout that works abdominal muscles, chest, arms, legs, and several parts of the back. The subject squats down and quickly moves their arms and legs into a push-up position. Sometimes, people do a push up (not mandatory) before they finish their rep by tucking the legs in and jumping up. Chin-ups and pull-ups

6. List of weight training exercises - Wikipedia

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   Major variants: reverse ~ (curling the pelvis towards the shoulders), twisting ~ or side ~ (lifting one shoulder at a time; emphasis is on the obliques), cable ~ (pulling down on a cable machine while kneeling), sit-up ~ (have [chest] touch your knees), vertical crunch (propping up to dangle legs and pulling knees to the [ chest] or keeping ...

7. To Live Longer, Women Need Half as Much Exercise as Men

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   Women tend to have less muscle mass than men, Gulati explains, so “if they do the same amount of strengthening exercises, they may have greater benefits with smaller doses just based on the fact ...