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

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   Muscle strain is a common cause of calf injury, which can happen from activities like running or jumping without a proper warmup. Overuse like excessive exercise without enough time for recovery ...

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

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   The legs and glutes are the largest muscles in the body, which means you should exercise them — at most — every other day. It’s essential to give leg muscles a 24-hour rest period at minimum ...

4. Build Massive Calf Muscles With These Exercises - AOL

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   Why: This classic exercise is the go-to for guys who want to build their calf muscle—and for good reason. You'll be able to work the muscles through a full range of motion, and you don't need a ...

5. 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).

6. Benefits of physical activity - Wikipedia

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   Physical exercise results in numerous health benefits and is an important tool to combat obesity and its co-morbidities, including cardiovascular diseases. Exercise prevents both the onset and development of cardiovascular disease and is an important therapeutic tool to improve outcomes for patients with cardiovascular disease.

7. Muscle tone - Wikipedia

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   In skeletal muscles, this helps maintain a normal posture. Resting muscle tone varies along a bell-shaped curve. Low tone is perceived as "lax, flabby, floppy, mushy, dead weight" and high tone is perceived as "tight, light, strong". Muscles with high tone are not necessarily strong and muscles with low tone are not necessarily weak.