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

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   Squeezing your calf muscles, slowly raise your body, lifting your heels until you’re on your toes. Make sure to stand tall and straight. Then lower your heels back to the floor with control. Repeat.

3. Doing these 20 exercises now can prevent low-back pain later

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   Exercises that strengthen the low back are crucial for maintaining a healthy back and spine — and avoiding pain and discomfort in this area. The lower back, or lumbar region, plays a key role in ...

4. 10 Bodyweight Exercises To Melt Lower Back Fat - AOL

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   Photo: Shutterstock. Design: Eat This, Not That!Excess fat around the lower back area not only affects your appearance but can also lead to discomfort and lower back pain. While spot reduction is ...

5. Williams Flexion Exercises - Wikipedia

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   The goals of performing these exercises were to reduce pain and provide lower trunk stability by actively developing the "abdominal, gluteus maximus, and hamstring muscles as well as..." passively stretching the hip flexors and lower back (sacrospinalis) muscles. Williams said: "The exercises outlined will accomplish a proper balance between ...

6. Calisthenics - Wikipedia

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   An easier version of this exercise consists of placing the hands on a wall and then bending and straightening the arms. Sit-ups; A person lies on their back with their legs bent. They bend at the waist and move their head and torso towards their legs. They then lower themselves back down to the start position.

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).