If you could only choose one leg exercise ..

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to do, with no equipment, at home, and that gave good results, what would you choose?

Squats

I would probably just squat and not by any to be honest.

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my old PT said squats were the best single exercise you can do.

Mix it up too, wide feet, feet hip width, use a band (pushing knees outwards), use weights (or hold heavy items) in your hands/bags, hold hands behind your head ... lots of different ways to do them

Agree squats. I like standing on the handle of my dumbells so heels lifted off the floor. Very effective

Squats

Squats! So many different options.

Squats. If they are too simple for you, one legged squats. If those are easy, fair play to you

If you only exercise one leg, won't you become lop sided?

Leg press. Having your feet higher/lower/closer together/further apart works different muscles too.

Lunges / jumping or non jumping, pulsing, full - I love a lunge

Interesting @actiongirl1978 does this make them more effective?

I also read this as which leg would you exercise if only one of them, I'd decided probably my right but wasn't sure why!

Would agree that it's probably a squat though if I was going to do them both

I think it just activates a different part of your glutes. I like to vary pliè and sumo and narrow leg and raised heels. You'll get everything with those.

Plus if you hold weights,even better

Squats. With a kid on my back.

I would go for lunges and all of it’s variations. I’ve learned to love curtsey lunges especially. You can also place a yoga block under the front foot for a deeper lunge (a la Caroline Girvan).

Curtsey lunges are great, I was introduced to those over the first lockdown! Anything that uses your own body weight such as squats, lunges or plies will work well.

Squats because you can work legs, bum and core by holding it in tight. Also can do low squats, curtsy squats and bring sally is a killer

Thanks for replies - I did mean both legs, not just the one :). Squats definitely the front runner. I can’t do the curtesy ones or the one legged ones, my balance is terrible.

What’s bring Sally?

You alternate the legs 🤣🤣🤣

Climb and descend the stairs. But that's only really viable if you live in a tower block.

It's the chorus of a Moby sing that gets used as a 'challenge' for push-ups/press-ups/squats. You basically hold the position until the song says 'up' or 'down' then move as instructed and hold again until the next 'up' or 'down'.

www.fitandwell.com/news/bring-sally-up-push-up-challenge-2603

I have a dodgy ankle, hip and back so my physio has encouraged me to do squats with my heels raised on something like a triangle block, and holding onto something in front (eg banister, edge of kitchen sink). I also do them against the wall leaning on a Swiss ball. And resistance ones with elastic. I guess that's 3 pieces of equipment, but they're cheap ones! Squats are very versatile, and I love that I've found a way to do them! At my physio sessions I do them on a balance device which is like a ball cut in half with a flat surface where the cut is. More expensive option but makes you work hard!