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 Golden Eagle didn’t just train harder—he trained smarter. Tom Platz proved that elite leg size and world-class ...

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, ...

A trainer shares 4 chair exercises after 65 that rebuild leg strength and balance: chair squats, leg extensions, step-ups, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Step ups are a staple in most strength programmes. Step-downs, less so. That’s a mistake. Put simply, a step-down involves lowering one leg from a raised surface to the floor under control, then ...

Knowing the best exercises for quads is important, whether you are a seasoned athlete or simply want to stay strong as you grow older. After all, keeping this group of muscles at the front of each ...

Erin Banks said he's seen major leg muscle gains by incorporating hack squats into his lower body workouts to work his quads instead of his core.

A “dead leg”, medically known as a quadriceps contusion, is caused when the brutal force of a blow compresses the player’s ...