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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.

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

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   The leg muscles are some of the largest in the body, so in order to have a strong foundation, you need to work the hamstrings, quads, adductors, abductors and calves.

4. You Can Strengthen Your Calves Without Even Standing Up - AOL

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   If the goal is to strengthen your calf muscles, include soleus pushups as part of your lower body training two to three times per week, along with other calf targeting exercises, says Vasquez ...

5. Squat (exercise) - Wikipedia

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   Squat is a large muscle-mass resistance exercise. [35] As such, squats acutely produces increases in testosterone (especially in men) and growth hormone (especially in women). [ 35 ] Although insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) is not raised acutely by squat exercise, resistance-trained men and women have higher resting IGF-1. [ 35 ]

6. Leg raise - Wikipedia

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   The leg raise is a strength training exercise which targets the iliopsoas (the anterior hip flexors).Because the abdominal muscles are used isometrically to stabilize the body during the motion, leg raises are also often used to strengthen the rectus abdominis muscle and the internal and external oblique muscles.

7. Bodyweight exercise - Wikipedia

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   Exercises focusing on the legs and abdomen such as squats, lunges, and step ups are recommended to increase leg and core strength, in doing so, reduce the risk of falling. [9] Bodyweight exercises provide multi-directional movement that mimics daily activities, and as such can be preferable to using weight machines.