Building strong legs is essential for total-body fitness, athletic performance, and long-term health. This expert-backed ...

Building strong, muscular quads is best done with a combination of compound exercises—squats, lunges, leg presses—and isolation work, such as leg extensions. Tack on some powerful plyometric moves, ...

TRX is a suspension-training system developed by a Navy SEAL to support workouts in small spaces with minimal equipment. It leverages gravity and your body weight to help you build strength, increase ...

Set the TRX strap the mid-length. Stand facing the anchor. Keep elbows under your shoulders and palms facing each other. Center your working leg to an anchor point and extend your opposite leg in ...

Leg workouts lay the foundations of any good training plan, but which moves should you be focusing on for maximum results? We asked an expert personal trainer to design a short lower-body routine and ...

Full-body routines are great and all, but there’s just something special about leg day. A solid leg workout plan gives you a chance to challenge some of your biggest and strongest muscles. After all, ...

As one of the most effective compound exercises, squats will always have a place in any well-rounded training plan. They ...

How many of you include hamstring exercises in your leg workouts? And bum exercises? I’ll hedge my bets a lot more of you answered yes to the latter. While neither are anterior chain muscles (i.e., ...

Amber Sayer is a fitness, nutrition, and wellness writer and editor. She holds a master’s degree in exercise science and a master’s degree in prosthetics and orthotics. She is a NCSA-certified ...

When you think of leg day, you might automatically picture yourself profusely sweating as you drop into a squat, lower into a deadlift, or glide into a hip thrust. Just make sure you don’t sleep on ...