If there’s a muscle that often gets overlooked during leg day, it’s the calf muscles and, if you do remember to train them, more often than not, it usually includes quickly smashing out a dozen calf ...

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The warm summer months inspire us to embrace our bodies by not covering them up. Our legs should be no different. While we recently spoke to you about developing your thighs over the summer months, ...

Even if you aren’t training for anything in particular, it never hurts to give your calves a little extra love. The calf muscles, located on the back of the lower leg, are actually made up of three ...

Tone your calves after 55 with four simple moves that boost balance, support your joints, and work better than treadmill ...

If you want defined calf muscles, try a plié squat, says personal trainer Nadya Fairweather (u-shape.co.uk). Stand with your feet wider than your hips, toes pointing out. Squat, keeping shoulders over ...

Limited ankle dorsiflexion can lead to injury, but you can assess and improve ankle dorsiflexion mobility at home with easy and effective exercises.

Specific foot exercises that activate calf muscles have proven to speed healing of venous leg ulcers and diabetic foot ulcers. Wounds Advisory Board member Laura Bolton, Ph.D., called for the routine ...

It has been about a month + 1 week after my car accident and I finally got my leg out of the hard cast yesterday. They gave me an aircast/splint to use, but at least I have more freedom than before.

The gold-standard treatment for Achilles tendinopathy is a progressive series of calf-strengthening exercises. Yet even with ...