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

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   Squeezing your calf muscles, slowly raise your body, lifting your heels until you’re on your toes. Make sure to stand tall and straight. Then lower your heels back to the floor with control. Repeat.

3. 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.

4. Over 50? These 10 Weight-Training Exercises Are Crucial as ...

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   Slowly lower the weight back down to the starting position with control, bending your knees. Perform three sets of 10 to 12 reps, focusing on maintaining a smooth and controlled motion. 10. Calf ...

5. 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.

6. Leg extension - Wikipedia

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   The leg extension is a good exercise for isolating muscular contraction in the quadriceps, [14] but as with all isolation exercises, should be included in a holistic resistance training program working all muscles, especially antagonistic muscle pairs (such as the quadriceps, hamstrings, and gluteal muscles), to avoid muscular imbalances, which ...

7. Leg press - Wikipedia

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   The leg press can be used to evaluate an athlete's overall lower body strength (from the gluteus Maximus to the lower leg muscles). It can help to build squat strength. [ 2 ] If performed correctly, the inclined leg press can help build knees that can handle heavier free weights, [ 3 ] on the other hand, it also carries a risk of serious damage ...