Lower Body Exercises

By D'Annette Stephens, ISSA-CPT
young caucasian man setting up a barbell for a landmine leg workout in the gym.
A 20-Minute Landmine Workout That Sculpts Your Butt and Legs
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By Jaime Osnato
Fit Woman Doing the Side Lunge Exercise
8 Side Lunge Mistakes That Make the Move Ineffective (and Potentially Painful)
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By Kim Grundy, PT
Couple exercising together at home.
This Small Change During Squats Will Help Protect Your Knees From Injury
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By Bojana Galic
caucasian woman doing a barbell hip thrust exercise with a foam pad
5 Hip Thrust Mistakes Making Your Butt Workouts Less Effective
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By Richard Adefioye
young adult sporty woman doing a squat jump, a glute combination exercise on a concrete staircase outside
The Best 2-In-1 Glute Exercises to Build Your Butt and Burn Calories
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By Bojana Galic
women doing bulgarian split squats on outdoor stairs
4 Mistakes Making Your Bulgarian Split Squats Way Less Effective — and Potentially Painful
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By Rachel Grice
young caucasian woman doing a glute bridge with hamstring curl in her living room
This Advanced Glute Bridge Variation Sculpts Your Butt and Hamstrings
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By Bojana Galic
woman performing a the banded clamshell exercise in bedroom with laptop
How to Do the Clamshell Exercise to Sculpt Strong, Well-Rounded Glutes
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By Bojana Galic
Muscular man standing with one leg on bin.
Finally Tackle the Pistol Squat With These 5 Leg Exercises
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By Lauren Bedosky
Woman doing a wall sit during her at-home workout with an iPad
How Long Do You Really Need to Hold a Wall Sit?
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By Bojana Galic
Young adult woman practicing a deep yoga squat in garland position
The 5 Best Mobility Moves to Deepen Your Squat — Glute Gains Guaranteed
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By Kim Grundy, PT
Happy male athlete exercising lunges on the city street.
How Low Do You Really Need to Lunge?
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By Bojana Galic
Woman doing a side lunge with a single dumbbell during a side butt workout at the gym
This 20-Minute Dumbbell Side Butt Workout Guarantees Well-Rounded Glutes
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By Bojana Galic
Woman performing sumo squat with dumbbell.
The 6 Hardest Hamstring Exercises You Can Do With One Dumbbell
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By Bojana Galic
young woman doing a glute bridge workout at home
This 20-Minute Glute-Bridge Workout Will Build Your Butt — and Entire Body
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By Tiffany Ayuda
fit woman doing a barbell hip thrust on a purple yoga mat and step
Hip Thrusts vs. Deadlifts: Which One Is Better for Stronger Glutes?
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By Jaime Osnato
man doing a bodyweight sumo squat exercise on a yoga mat
How to Do a Sumo Squat Perfectly Every Single Time
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By Jaime Osnato
Healthy young sportswoman doing the donkey kick exercise on all fours arching back straightening leg up outdoors. Concept sport, fitness, lifestyle
9 Donkey Kick Mistakes That Make Butt Workouts Less Effective
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By Jaime Osnato
Woman doing a dumbbell squat to strengthen her glutes at the gym
The Only 5 Dumbbell Exercises You Need for a Stronger Butt
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By Bojana Galic
woman doing dumbbell squats on a purple yoga mat in her living room
Build Stronger Glutes With This 20-Minute Drop-Set Dumbbell Workout
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By Jaime Osnato
Young sporty man having sports training with dumbbells at home
The 5 Hardest Glute Exercises You Can Do at Home With a Single Dumbbell
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By Lauren Bedosky
Friends wearing a mask while exercising together at home doing jump squats
Struggling With Jump Squats? Here's What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You
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By Bojana Galic
Woman doing iso squat holds with a resistance band on a pier
Challenge Your Lower-Body Endurance and Strength With This 20-Minute Isometric Glute Workout
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By D'Annette Stephens, ISSA-CPT
Athletic woman doing kettlebell overhead squats in her living room at home
This 20-Minute Kettlebell Ladder Workout Will Give Your Legs and Butt the Ultimate Burn
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By Bojana Galic
Asian man doing exercise at home while watching online video instruction on laptop, indoor home workout, keep healthy on new normal lifestyle, squat lunges
This 20-Minute Lunge Workout Will Torch Fat and Sculpt Your Legs
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By Kim Grundy, PT
Full length side view of women doing step-ups on picnic bench
Can't Do a Step-Up? Here's What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You
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By Jaime Osnato
woman doing glute bridge exercise on a light blue rug in her living room
7 Glute Bridge Mistakes That Make Butt Workouts Less Effective
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By Sara Lindberg
Fitness Woman Doing Glute Kickbacks During a Butt Workout
Try the 10x10 Butt Workout to Sculpt Your Glutes in Minutes
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By Bojana Galic
Woman performing rotating lunge with medicine ball.
This Modifiable Lunge Variation Works Your Butt, Abs and Balance at the Same Time
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By Jaime Osnato
Woman in pink tank top doing stretches for foot pain in bed
The 5 Best Stretches to Do When You Wake Up With Foot Pain
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By Bojana Galic
Woman performing Bulgarian split squat at home.
Want More Burn From Your Bulgarian Split Squats? Try These 5 Variations
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By Bojana Galic
Man squatting while holding hands behind head
The One Squat Variation Your Legs and Abs Have Been Missing
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By Bojana Galic
Woman doing a glute workout with a towel
All You Need for This 20-Minute Fiery Glute Workout Is a Towel
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By Rachel Grice
Woman doing lunges outside to fix glute imbalance
A 10-Second Test to Tell if Your Glutes Are Uneven (and 3 Exercises to Fix an Imbalance)
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By Bojana Galic
Woman doing a squat workout in park
This 20-Minute Squat Workout Will Take Your Glute Gains to the Next Level
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By Bojana Galic
Strong woman training with weights in gym
6 Hip Extension Exercises to Tighten and Lift Your Glutes
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By Bojana Galic
Female athlete doing lunges with kettlebells
Squats vs. Lunges: Which One Is the Better Leg Exercise?
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By Gabrielle Kassel
A young woman doing a front squat in her back yard
The Only 5 Barbell Exercises You Need for a Stronger Butt
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By Jaime Osnato
Front view of a fit woman doing side lunges near the river.
4 Hip Abductor Exercises That Are a Waste of Time — and 6 to Do Instead
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By Bojana Galic
Woman performing overhead squat with barbell in her garage.
Struggling With Your Overhead Squat? Here's What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You
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By Jaime Osnato
Man Exercising With Kettlebells, cross training Concept
The Only 4 Kettlebell Exercises You Need for Toned Legs
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By Bojana Galic
Woman doing a single-leg squat at home
5 of the Hardest Glute Exercises You Can Do at Home
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By SJ McShane
Young female athlete doing muscle trainings with dumbbells at public park
Try This 20-Minute Dumbbell Workout for Rock-Solid Glutes
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By Elizabeth Millard
Woman doing a glute workout at the gym using a cable machine
4 Glute Exercises That Are a Waste of Time — and What to Do Instead
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By Isadora Baum
Man doing leg exercises with suspension straps at gym.
The Only 4 TRX Exercises You Need for a Stronger Lower Body
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By SJ McShane
Adult Woman Training Body By Raising Legs Using Chair
All You Need Is a Chair for This 20-Minute Lower-Body Workout
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By Jaime Osnato
Man exercising with kettlebell outdoors. Athlete doing squats using kettlebells.
The Only 5 Kettlebell Exercises You Need for a Stronger Butt
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By Elizabeth Millard
Athletic woman doing squats for a rounder butt
A 7-Day Kickstart Plan for a Stronger, Rounder Butt
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By Amanda Capritto
Man doing a single--leg glute bridge against an orange wall
Can’t Do a Bulgarian Split Squat? Here Are 7 Other Moves That Are Just as Effective
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By Rachel Grice
man wearing leggings hat and arm band doing squat on one leg
The 3 Hardest Body-Weight Squat Variations
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By Jaime Osnato
Middle-aged man exercising wall sit for legs
Want More Burn From Your Wall Sits? Try These 5 Variations
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By Bojana Galic
Woman doing squats outside
4 Underrated Glute Exercises You’re Not Doing but Totally Should Be
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By Jaime Osnato
Young man squatting outdoors
Want to Improve Your Squats? Try This 10-Minute Ankle Mobility Routine
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By Philip Ghezelbash, BSc, CPT
Sportswoman is squating in the park
Hip Pain During Squats? Here’s What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You
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By Amanda Capritto
Woman demonstrating proper lunge form in the gym
Avoid These 6 Lunge Mistakes for a Better (and Safer) Lower-Body Workout
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By Bojana Galic
Man squatting with proper form.
6 Squat Mistakes That Are Slowing Your Strength Gains
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By Rozalynn S. Frazier, CPT
photo of woman doing squat exercise on blue background
What Really Happens to Your Body When You Squat Every Day
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By Bojana Galic
Woman doing deadlifts in front of her garage.
How to Do a Deadlift, the One Exercise Your Glutes and Hamstrings Will Love
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By Rachel Grice
Woman doing a dumbbell reverse lunge
The 30-Day Dumbbell Challenge: Your 4-Move Workout for a Built Butt
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By Bojana Galic
Man performing lateral lunge.
The Only 5 Exercises You Need for Toned Thighs
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By Bojana Galic
woman doing glute bridge variation with heels elevated at home
Want More Burn From Your Glute Bridges? Try These 7 Variations
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By Rachel Grice
woman doing Donkey Kick exercise for body-weight butt workout
You Can Do This 20-Minute Body-Weight Butt Workout Anywhere
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By Sarah Klein
woman doing barbell squat for best lower-body workout
The Best Workouts to Hit Every Muscle in Your Lower Body
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By Jeff Tomko
Young woman lunging with kettlebell on yoga mat in living room
8 of the Hardest Leg Exercises You Can Do at Home
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By Jaime Osnato
Young sporty girl doing wall sitting exercise urban outdoors.
This 20-Minute Lower-Body Workout Is Easy on Your Knees — but Still Builds Major Muscle
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By Elizabeth Millard
rear view of man using barbell to do a good morning exercise
Improve Your Mobility and Strengthen Your Back and Legs With the Good Morning Exercise
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By Bojana Galic
Young well-built man go in for sports in apartment. Squads on one knee. Guy hold hand in front himself. Concentrated and hardworking.
Sculpt Leaner Legs at Home With This 20-Minute HIIT Cardio Workout
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By Amanda Capritto
woman practicing deadlift for full lower-body workout
The Perfect Full Lower-Body Workout for Leg Days When You're Short on Time
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By Jaime Osnato
Man doing a kettlebell superset workout in the gym
3 Lower-Body Supersets to Pump Up Your Legs, Butt and Calves
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By Amanda Capritto
man doing lunges with kettlebell for a butt workout
The Only 6 Exercises You Need for the Ultimate Butt Workout
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By Bojana Galic
close up of man doing squat with barbell in gym
How Deep Do You Really Need to Squat?
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By Bojana Galic
Man wearing squat shoes.
The One Tiny Modification That Will Elevate Your Squat Game
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