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

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    If the goal is to strengthen your calf muscles, include soleus pushups as part of your lower body training two to three times per week, along with other calf targeting exercises, says Vasquez ...

  4. Build Massive Calf Muscles With These Exercises - AOL

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    Must-Do Exercises for Your Calf Muscles Standing Calf Raise. 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 ...

  5. List of weight training exercises - Wikipedia

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    The deadlift is a very effective compound exercise for strengthening the lower back, but also exercises many other major muscle groups, including quads, hamstrings and abdominals. It is a challenging exercise, as poor form or execution can cause serious injury. [ 8 ]

  6. Triceps surae muscle - Wikipedia

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    A calf strain refers to damage to a muscle or its attaching tendons. [3] [4] A premature return before recovery is achieved will result in a prolonged recovery or incomplete return to baseline prior to injury. [1] Stretches such as alternating calf raises can improve flexibility as well as mobilize legs before running. [4]

  7. 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).

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

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    The leg muscles are some of the largest in the body, so in order to have a strong foundation, you need to work the hamstrings, quads, adductors, abductors and calves.

  9. Squat (exercise) - Wikipedia

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    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. Squats also help the hip muscles.

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