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

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   Soleus pushups can increase blood circulation and boost metabolism, per new research. ... Squat To Heel Raise. ... any exercise alone completed for 3 to 5 sets in a 12 to 20 rep range ...

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

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   The soleus muscle helps stabilize the ankles while gastrocnemius helps stabilize the knees. Squats. Any squat can become a great calf workout if you lift the heels — this is called a plié squat ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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.

6. List of weight training exercises - Wikipedia

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   The freeweight squat is one of the three powerlifting competition exercises, along with the deadlift and the bench press. [2] Equipment Squats can be performed using only the practitioner's body weight. For weighted squats, a barbell is typically used, although the practitioner may instead hold dumbbells, kettlebells, or other

7. Closed kinetic chain exercises - Wikipedia

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   Closed chain exercises are often compound movements, that generally incur compressive forces, while open-chain exercises are often isolation movements that promote more shearing forces. [ 1 ] CKC exercises involve more than one muscle group and joint simultaneously rather than concentrating solely on one, as many OKC exercises do (single-joint ...