calf muscles

(Northwestern University) Small calf muscles may be a feminine trait, but for women with peripheral artery disease (PAD) they're a major disadvantage.

Researchers at Northwestern Medicine point to the smaller calf muscles of women as a gender difference that may cause women with PAD to experience problems walking and climbing stairs sooner and faster than men with the disease.

Calf raises are many times overlooked when making up an exercise rotation. They are the best exercise to strengthen and tone your calves.

Most women can agree that having toned and nice looking legs is a big part of the reason why they exercise, but yet this awesome exercise is many times forgotten. Not only will calf raises tone your legs, but they will also strengthen your calves so you have no problem walking in those stilettos you bought.

It's another week of looming deadlines and the calendar's chock full of to-do items, which means getting to the gym might not be high on the priority list for yet another seven days. If you want to stay in shape, you do have some options outside of the usual gym circuit.

A few tweaks to your morning routine, and modifying your daily activities ever so slightly, might just be all you need to keep that metabolism revved up and keep you in shape.

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