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2. You Can Strengthen Your Calves Without Even Standing Up - AOL

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   If the goal is to strengthen your calf muscles, include soleus pushups as part of your lower body training two to three times per week, along with other calf targeting exercises, says Vasquez ...

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

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   Squeeze the calf muscle of the standing leg, lifting your heel until you are on your toes. Hold at the top, maintaining good upright posture, and then lower your heel back to the floor with ...

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

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   Lift your left leg straight back while you contract the glute, raising it to about a 45-degree angle from the standing leg. Slowly lower the leg back down and perform 10 reps on this side.

5. Calf raises - Wikipedia

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   The gastrocnemius is made up of fast-twitch muscle fibres, which benefit more from heavy loads and low reps on the standing calf raise, while the soleus is a slow-twitch muscle and benefits from higher reps and lower loads on the seated calf raise. [3] [4]

6. Gastrocnemius muscle - Wikipedia

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   Along with the soleus muscle, the gastrocnemius forms half of the calf muscle. Its function is plantar flexing the foot at the ankle joint and flexing the leg at the knee joint. The gastrocnemius is primarily involved in running, jumping and other "fast" movements of leg, and to a lesser degree in walking and standing.

7. Complications of prolonged standing - Wikipedia

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   The basic physiological change that occurs in the body during prolonged standing or sudden stand from supine position is that there will be increased pooling of blood in the legs. This decreases the venous return, and so there will be decreased cardiac output, which ultimately causes systolic blood pressure to fall (hypotension).