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

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   The legs are made up of the glutes, quads, hamstrings, hips, adductors, abductors and calves. These are the best leg exercises for strength using bodyweight.

3. 10 dumbbell exercises to strengthen and tone your legs - AOL

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   This dumbbell leg workout will strengthen your lower body, improve balance and boost heart health with dumbbell exercises like lunges, squats and deadlifts.

4. How to get a full-body workout at home without any equipment

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   Research shows that whether you decide to do all of your strength training in one day, or split up the workouts into lower body or legs one day and upper body or arms another day, your results ...

5. List of weight training exercises - Wikipedia

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   The position is held as long as possible. The exercise is used to strengthen the quadriceps. Contrary to previous advice in this section, this exercise is NOT good for people with knee problems because the knees bear most of the load, especially when they are held at right angles (90 degrees). [citation needed] Equipment

6. Leg raise - Wikipedia

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   The leg raise is a strength training exercise which targets the iliopsoas (the anterior hip flexors).Because the abdominal muscles are used isometrically to stabilize the body during the motion, leg raises are also often used to strengthen the rectus abdominis muscle and the internal and external oblique muscles.

7. 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.

8. What standing on 1 leg says about your health - AOL

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   But if balance is your main concern, Kirsch suggests trying these exercises to strengthen your core and legs, and to improve your coordination. “Perform exercises near a sturdy object, like a ...

9. 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.