leg exercise
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- noun
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ejercicio de piernas
- One is a squat, which is hip dominant, and the other is a single-leg exercise that is quad dominant.
Examples
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So if you've been doing a leg exercise, you can stretch your pecs.
Blog text (26) -
She can't fall asleep, so she does leg exercises on her bed, watching her ballet-slippered feet cut elegant angles in the air.
Fiction book (1996) -
Well, pick leg exercises you can do safely.
Blog text (5) -
Core muscle and leg exercises boost your lower back posture.
Academic text (2015) -
Wilma fought the sadness by doing more leg exercises.
Fiction book (1998) -
This demonstrated the additive effect of these arm and leg exercise modes on aerobic energy expenditure in quadriplegics.
Academic text (1992) -
As a whole, squats are a more holistic leg exercise and typically involve a greater range of motion about both the hip and knee (making them a more accurate measure of leg strength).
Blog text (5) -
Toner et al. (29) reported that SV and HR were sustained in able-bodied subjects when arm exercise accounted for 75 percent of the total combined arm-leg PO compared to levels observed during 100 percent voluntary leg exercise.
Academic text (1992) -
To strengthen your legs, focus on doing a variety of leg exercises like squats and lunges.
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In our fitness class, we incorporate leg exercises to help participants tone their lower body.
How Strengthening
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an exercise intended to strengthen or tone the muscles of the legs' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'leg' (a limb) with 'exercise' (bodily movements for fitness). This is a regular noun–noun compound with compositional meaning and clear cross‑linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Leg exercise is a literal phrase that puts leg, the body part that holds and moves you, together with exercise, actions you do to make parts of your body stronger. That image of working your legs with squats or lunges makes it easy to remember that leg exercise means activities to build 'strength' in the legs.