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

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   The calves support a lot of the load from the lower body, and propel you forward when doing activities like walking and running. The calf muscles also help you flex your feet and rotate your ...

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. 10 ‘Kinetic Chain’ Exercises To Build Stronger, Bigger Muscles

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   Exercise #9: Leg Press (Open Chain) Shutterstock The leg press is an excellent exercise for targeting the quads, hamstrings, glutes, and calves, focusing on overall lower-body strength and ...

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. 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.

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'.