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2. 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.

3. How to do a squat to tone your backside (without knee pain) - AOL

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   Squat exercise benefits. Squats are meant to work your quadriceps, hamstrings and glutes, while engaging your core. They improve your strength and stabilization, and have been shown to increase ...

4. 12 Squat Variations for Better Leg Day Workouts - AOL

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   Squats are a compound exercise, which means you'll use multiple large muscle groups when you add them to your workout plan. When you squat, you'll engage the biggest muscle groups in your legs ...

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

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   Squat Stand with your feet as wide as your shoulders, toes pointing forward. Pull your navel in toward your spine, and then sit back by bending at your knees and reaching your glutes back as if ...

6. List of weight training exercises - Wikipedia

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   If a weight is used, then it rests upon the shoulders, or is held in the hand(s). This is an isolation exercise for the calves; it particularly emphasises the gastrocnemius muscle, and recruits the soleus muscle. [6] Equipment Body weight, dumbbells, barbell, Smith machine or standing calf raise machine. Major variants

7. Calf raises - Wikipedia

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   The exercise is performed from a seated position while the weight rests on the upper leg, just above the knee. The person engaged in this exercise lifts the weight by pushing down on the balls of the feet. [1] Due to the discomfort of higher weights on a bar, barbells used for seated calf raises are frequently padded or wrapped in a towel.