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

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   The legs are made up of the glutes, quads, hamstrings, hips, adductors, abductors and calves. These are the best leg exercises for strength using bodyweight. The best exercises to tone your legs ...

3. Denise Austin Shares Move to ‘Tone and Tighten’ the ‘Thighs’

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   Denise Austin, 67, shared an exercise for “toning and tightening" the legs, glutes, and core. Here’s how to perform the lower body move that targets “thighs.” Denise Austin Shares Move to ...

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

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   This dumbbell leg workout will strengthen your lower body, ... 10 dumbbell exercises to strengthen and tone your legs. Stephanie Mansour. August 27, 2024 at 5:17 PM.

5. Muscle hypertrophy - Wikipedia

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   The best approach to specifically achieve muscle growth remains controversial (as opposed to focusing on gaining strength, power, or endurance); it was generally considered that consistent anaerobic strength training will produce hypertrophy over the long term, in addition to its effects on muscular strength and endurance.

6. Electrical muscle stimulation - Wikipedia

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   In medicine, EMS is used for rehabilitation purposes, for instance in physical therapy in the prevention muscle atrophy due to inactivity or neuromuscular imbalance, which can occur for example after musculoskeletal injuries (damage to bones, joints, muscles, ligaments and tendons).

7. 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.

8. 5 basic workout moves to tone your whole body

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   Holding hand weights and standing with your legs slightly apart, do a bicep curl. Then, extend the weights over your head. Bring them back down to your shoulders, then back to your sides.

9. Muscle tone - Wikipedia

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   Both the extensor and flexor muscles are involved in the maintenance of a constant tone while at rest. In skeletal muscles, this helps maintain a normal posture. Resting muscle tone varies along a bell-shaped curve. Low tone is perceived as "lax, flabby, floppy, mushy, dead weight" and high tone is perceived as "tight, light, strong".