If you want legs that command attention, you have to balance strength and size. Squats and deadlifts will crush your glutes and hamstrings, helping you to pack on serious power. But if you want quads ...

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, ...

Sometimes during a yoga class, there’s an exercise you do that involves standing on one of the best yoga mats, drawing one knee to hip height, then extending the leg out in front of you. It’s killer ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. Ready for leg day?

Lower-body strength doesn’t disappear overnight in your 40s, but it can gradually decline if your legs aren’t challenged ...

Strong legs form the foundation of a healthy, functional body – and you don’t need complex routines to build them effectively. Research shows you’ll achieve optimal results by keeping your leg ...

My doctor and personal trainer tell me to avoid the leg extension exercises because they are bad for my knees. I saw your KGW segment where you demonstrated the leg extension exercise with an older ...

Stop risking your knees with deep squats; fitness experts reveal how a standard chair can unlock elite leg strength and total ...

We use the same lower body exercise sequence to organize our leg routine. The exercise sequence remains the same each time our players train the hips and legs. To create variety our players can ...

There really isn’t many things we do that our core and abdominals aren’t involved. Our core is our back’s biggest support system and helps balance our bodies in everything we do. So, aside from ...