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2. 7 Least Effective Exercises for Building Bigger Leg Muscles ...

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   While the leg press can build leg strength, it doesn't engage the core or stabilizing muscles as effectively as free-weight exercises, limiting functional strength and muscle growth.

3. 11 Best Exercises To Grow Your Glutes, Not Your Thighs - AOL

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   Perform three sets of 15 to 20 reps per leg. RELATED: The 5 Best Exercises to ... Reverse hyperextensions target the glutes and lower back while minimizing thigh engagement. This exercise is ...

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. Trainers Call This 'The Most Effective Exercise You Can Do ...

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   Take a big step back with left leg, crossing it behind right side. Bend knees and lower hips until right thigh is nearly parallel to the floor. Keep torso upright and hips and shoulders as square ...

6. 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'.

7. 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 ...