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

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   The calf muscles also help you flex your feet and rotate your ankles. The stronger your calves, the higher you can jump, the faster you can run, and the less likely you’ll get injured. Calf ...

3. 10 dumbbell exercises to strengthen and tone your legs - AOL

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   And adding weight is an effective way to make them an even better cardio workout, improving your cardiovascular health. Dumbell leg exercises Add a dumbell to your lower-body workout with these 10 ...

4. 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.

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. 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.

7. List of weight training exercises - Wikipedia

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   This is a compound exercise that also involves the triceps and the front deltoids, also recruits the upper and lower back muscles, and traps. The bench press is the king of all upper body exercises and is one of the most popular chest exercises in the world. It is the final exercise in 'The big 3'.