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

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   Learn calf muscle anatomy and the best calf exercises for your leg workout to improve strength, balance, stability and to run faster, according to a personal trainer. Tone your calves with these ...

3. Build Massive Calf Muscles With These Exercises - AOL

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   Must-Do Exercises for Your Calf Muscles Standing Calf Raise. Why: This classic exercise is the go-to for guys who want to build their calf muscle—and for good reason. You'll be able to work the ...

4. 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).

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

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

6. Gastrocnemius muscle - Wikipedia

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   The gastrocnemius muscle (plural gastrocnemii) is a superficial two-headed muscle that is in the back part of the lower leg of humans. It is located superficial to the soleus in the posterior (back) compartment of the leg .

7. Calf (leg) - Wikipedia

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   The calf (pl.: calves; Latin: sura) is the back portion of the lower leg in human anatomy. [1] The muscles within the calf correspond to the posterior compartment of the leg. The two largest muscles within this compartment are known together as the calf muscle and attach to the heel via the Achilles tendon.

8. Isolation Exercises Are Essential to Maximize Your Workout Gains

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   Isolation exercises, or single-joint movements that focus on just one muscle at a time, ... These include training staples like the calf raise, biceps curl, triceps extension, and leg curl. ...

9. 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.