Ready for leg day? I’ve already shared my favorite exercises for hamstrings and for your glutes (a.k.a. your butt). It’s time to tackle the main muscle group we think of when we think of legs: the ...

The best quad exercises are those that strengthen your upper leg muscles and create a steady foundation for your whole body. Quads are an extremely important group of muscles that help you raise your ...

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, ...

Long-term lifters understand the real importance of leg day (despite how gruelling it may be). Stronger quads help to stabilise our body, power everyday movements, like walking, running and hiking, ...

Whether you realize it or not, your quads work hard all day, every day. So, your quads deserve some extra attention to keep them functioning at peak performance, and no leg day is complete without ...

Strengthen and tone your thighs with this powerful quad-focused yoga pose! Perfect for building lean muscle, boosting leg ...

Not that quad exercises are only good for aesthetics. A study published in the Journal of Physical Therapy Science found that ...

For training in the lengthened position, she recommends the Romanian deadlift. ‘Unlike the hip thrust, the RDL loads the hinge in the lengthened range,’ she says, adding that, for good technique, ...

The longest bones in your body are your femurs, which are located within your upper legs. Connected to your femurs are your quadriceps, which are behind practically every movement that you do. This is ...

The quads are one of the largest muscle groups you can train, so working them increases your overall leg strength for exercises like squatting, lunging, leg pressing, and other lower body exercises ...