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2. Can't Squat, Bench, or Deadlift? Try These Alternatives to ...

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   Exercises like the leg press, hack squat, lunges, and Smith machine squats are excellent for isolating and targeting your quads, especially if achieving optimal squat depth or maintaining control ...

3. This Simple 4-Move Dumbbell Workout Builds Stronger Legs - AOL

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   This dumbbell leg workouts skips out on the barbells and heavy weights to give you a different spin on squats, deadlifts, and lunges. This Simple 4-Move Dumbbell Workout Builds Stronger Legs Skip ...

4. 5 Best Leg Workouts for Women After 50 - AOL

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   Alternating reverse lunges are highly effective for cultivating single-leg strength and size. With each lunge, you engage key muscles in the lower body, including the quadriceps, hamstrings, and ...

5. List of weight training exercises - Wikipedia

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   Leg extension machine. The leg extension is performed while seated by raising a weight out in front of the body with the feet. It is an isolation exercise for the quadriceps. Overtraining can cause patellar tendinitis. [4] The legs extension serves to also strengthen the muscles around the knees and is an exercise that is preferred by physical ...

6. Good-morning - Wikipedia

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   A similar exercise and easier alternative for odd implements such as dumbbells would be doing stiff or straight legged deadlifts. This involves the arms hanging down rather than up at one's back, and the pressure is exerted on the back through being held in the hands and through one's supporting back musculature such as the lattismus dorsi ...

7. 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).