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

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

With this in mind, here are five workouts for complete beginners to help you get moving in the year ahead. For some people, ...

Sit with your upper back resting against a sturdy chair. Place your feet flat on the floor, knees bent. Lift one leg off the ...

If you’re a beginner, start with quad exercises that feature isometric holds (such as split squat isometric holds, isometric squats, and bear planks) to develop muscular endurance, stability, and ...

If you want to build an at-home workout routine, experts recommend starting out with a circuit that’s made up of bodyweight exercises. The main benefit of circuit workouts is that you can arrange a ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor and has been writing about health, fitness, and science here since 2015. Beth was the recipient of the 2017 Carnegie Science Award in science ...

Experts say you don’t need a gym or fancy equipment to build strength, improve endurance, and protect your long-term health — ...