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

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   The thighs do most of the work when you're biking or cycling indoors, but the calves do a lot of stabilizing, so higher resistance will make the calves work harder. Best calf exercises at home

3. 14 plyometric exercises that burn fat and calories - AOL

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   Plyometric exercises boost metabolism, burn calories, burn fat and promote weight loss. ... As you jump, extend your legs out to about shoulder-width apart or larger. At the same time, extend your ...

4. The 10 Best Exercises for Stronger Thighs - AOL

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   Lunges are fantastic for building stronger thighs because they're single-leg movements (i.e. you target one leg at a time). That way, you strengthen your quads and the inside and outside of your ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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).

7. 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'.