Weak thigh muscles affect millions of people, creating challenges with daily activities like climbing stairs, getting up from chairs, or maintaining balance during movement. The quadriceps and ...

Seated exercises for older adults are a great way to exercise safely with mobility and balance restrictions. Use them to build strength for acts of daily living.

Dear Savvy Senior, My 80-year-old father, who lives alone, has fallen several times over the past few months. Are there any tips or precautions you recommend that I can implement to help prevent this?

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, ...

The hamstrings are the large muscles located at the back of your legs, behind the thighs. They are recruited in almost all of our daily activities from walking to bending down to standing up from the ...

The ankles are often neglected during workouts as we tend to underestimate their importance in supporting all the other body ...

Try standing on one leg for 30 seconds. Now the other one. Not so easy. As we age, this ability to balance on one leg declines more dramatically than other signs of aging such as grip and knee ...

June Furlan was alarmed when a mystery weakness started taking over her body, so her personal trainer suggested doing “dead bugs” to strengthen her core. She was already an avid gym goer, doing cardio ...

“Many gluteus medius exercises can be performed without placing undue strain on the knees, making them appropriate for ...