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

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   Calf raises in a “V” position Stand tall with both feet shoulder-width apart and turn your toes outward so your feet create the letter "V." Place your hands on your hips.

3. 11 Exercises Women Should Do Every Day to Lose Weight

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   "In order for women to lose weight, they would need a healthy combination of strength workouts and cardio workouts," Sydney Yeomans, certified personal trainer and director of fitness for BODY20 ...

4. 10 dumbbell exercises to strengthen and tone your legs - AOL

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   Lunge. Stand with your feet hip-width apart. Hold a dumbbell in each hand and let your arms hang down at your sides. Step the right foot back into a lunge position. Brace your core and lower down ...

5. 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).

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. 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.