Your lower body is where your largest muscles live: the glutes, quads, and hamstrings. These leg muscles are responsible for getting you to where you’re going, and it’s important to take good care of them.

I spoke to Planet Fitness trainer Keri Hupp, who explained that lower-body strength is important for injury prevention, posture and reducing your fall risk as you get older.

“Lower body strength plays a central role in stabilizing the kinetic chain, a system that includes the ankles, knees, hips, spine, shoulders, and head,” she says. You may like

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