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?

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 ...

A certified trainer shares 5 chair exercises that restore leg strength after 60. No squats or heavy lifting needed.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Building strong, muscular quads is best done with a combination of compound exercises—squats, lunges, leg presses—and isolation ...

Squats train all the major muscles in your legs, including quads and hamstrings. Walking lunges challenge your leg muscles and improve your stability and coordination. The leg press machine targets ...

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 ...

A strong, toned lower body is a fitness goal for many—and for good reason. Strong legs support everyday movements like walking, climbing stairs, and lifting. To achieve this, people often turn to ...

Sedentary desk jobs can be the pits, but that doesn’t mean you can’t develop a love-hate relationship with your office chair. Make your work chair work for you by turning it into your own personal ...

Strength training is beneficial at any age–especially as you get older, when muscle loss begins and continues throughout life. The male body also loses muscle due to age-related processes and a ...

Reasons to work out your legs, which belong to the biggest muscle groups of your body, are plentiful. Leg workouts improve your overall strength, reduce your chance of injury, and maintain a healthy ...

Building leg and butt muscle is the same as putting on muscle everywhere else on your body: you need consistent work and increasing weights (aka progressive overload) to see results. Dumbbells are a ...