Variations on basic leg exercises can help you target different muscles for better gains. Fitness pros swear by movements like goblet squats and hack squats for a well-rounded lower body. Deep squats ...

Hip flexor exercises are essential for improving leg stability, which is essential for a number of activities, from running ...

Leg day doesn't have to consist of copious sets of squats at the gym. You can target this major muscle group and feel the burn in the pool, too. Whether you're using a kickboard or simply kicking on ...

Build stronger legs after 55 with 4 chair exercises that target your quads, hamstrings, and glutes without painful squats.

If you are looking for a relatively easy leg day, with more than half of the volume made up of cardiovascular training rather than actual leg exercises, this is a good one to use as a stepladder to ...

This is designed to warm up the legs with light, full-range-of-motion movements combined with cardio, stretching and/or foam rolling.

For many people over 50, traditional squats can feel challenging or even uncomfortable. Joint stiffness, balance concerns, ...

If you're looking for fresh inspiration for your next home workout, look no further than the best Pilates exercises for legs, which instructors have assured us are the one of the best ways to upgrade ...

You don't necessarily need to do a ton of high-impact moves in your workouts. Case in point: isometric exercises, or static holds, that recruit your muscles with time under tension. These can look ...

Often, the way we work out, it’s almost as if it could have an invisible meridian dividing the upper and lower halves (you know: arm day! leg day!). But central, quite literally, to everything is the ...

The leg press exercise and machine are such good inventions that it would be foolish to use them only in their most conventional forms. The basic leg press is done with the feet hip-width apart, ...

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