What Muscles Do Side Leg Raises Work?
The simple side leg raise exercise builds hip and glute muscles. It can be done lying down or standing.
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How to Balance Your Hamstring and Quadriceps
Unbalanced quadriceps and hamstrings can be remedied by choosing isolation exercises that work the muscle that is weak.
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What Causes Soreness 3 Days After a Leg Workout
DOMS is the part of the healing process that you have to blame for the pain, specifically a process called inflammatory response cascade.
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Do Calf Raises Make My Calves Bigger?
The calf raise is a good exercise if you crave bigger calves to add symmetry to your legs. Use ample weight and multiple sets to get results.
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What Muscles Do Lunges Target?
When done properly, lunges work the majority of your leg muscles, as well as your hips and core, to build muscle.
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Exercises to Target Each Section of the Glutes
You glutes are actually three separate muscles that each have their on function. Strengthening exercises target each of these muscles to tone your backside.
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How to Lose Pounds With a Stair Stepper
Once the darling new star of the gym, stair steppers may have lost ground to the newer design of elliptical machines. Still, you can usually find at least a couple of them gathering dust in the corner.
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Stretches for Tight Quads
Tight quads could be a result of overtraining or from being sedentary. Either way, stretches will help the tightness release.
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How to Check for Weak Hamstrings
Test the strength of your hamstrings with a partner-assisted manual muscle test or by yourself with a single-leg bridge test.
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Stretches That Improve Jumping Ability
Doing dynamic stretches before jumping and static stretches after your workout will help you jump higher and farther.
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Leg Strengthening Exercises for the Elderly
Strong legs not only make daily activities easier, but they can reduce your risk of falls. Perform exercises at home to build the muscles.
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How to Slim Down Your Lower Body
Eat less and exercise more -- that's how you'll slim down your lower body. Combine regular cardio and strength training with a healthy diet.
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Exercises to Stop Your Legs From Clotting on Airline Flights
Deep vein thrombosis is a concern for people at risk on long flights. Getting up and walking around and doing exercises in your seat can prevent complications.
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Quad & Hamstring Stretches
Stretch your quads and hamstrings to keep them loose and prevent injuries. You can stretch either after a workout or when you have down time.
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10 Workout Moves You're Probably Doing Wrong (And How to Fix Them)
You don’t have to hire a personal trainer to start a new exercise program, but it’s important to know that there's a science to each of your favorite strength-training moves. As a trainer, I see many people rely on their own knowledge make common mistakes.
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2 No-Excuses Workouts for When You're Stuck Indoors
Blame it on the polar vortex, the first big rainstorm of the season or just plain laziness, but sometimes you just can’t leave your house to work out.
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10 No-Gym Plyometric Moves for Explosive Strength
Watch any sprinter explode off the starting line and you’re bound to be impressed by her toned glutes and chiseled legs as she blazes down the track to victory. The key training technique to such explosion, power and speed is plyometrics.
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12 Exercise Swaps to Help You Break Through a Plateau
You know the routine: squats, lunges, leg curls, pushups, etc. You don’t realize you’re on autopilot until halfway through your workout when you find yourself checking your phone, oblivious to the person waiting for you to finish your set. Not only are you bored, but so are your muscles.
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21 Sit-Ups You Won't Totally Hate
Crunches and sit-ups can be monotonous, and they probably remind you of elementary-school gym class. But they don’t have to be so boring. There are plenty of variations you can incorporate into your strength-training routine that target the muscles that make up your abs.
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The 7 Most Dreaded Exercises and Why You Should Do Them
Getting fit can be a bit of a love-hate situation. You love the [results](http://www.livestrong.com/slideshow/558506-12-tips-from-real-people-who-succeeded-at-losing-weight/), but the process can often be less than fun.
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