My calf routine is just wearing long pants.
107 slow reps every night on a 3 inch thick book works just fine
107 slow reps every night on a 3 inch thick book works just fine
I tried taking my shoes off once and never understood why people like that. Hurts bad and can hold the stretches longer with shoes.
I've done many routines that "seemed promising" as well. Yet never gained...
I swear doing seated calve raises make mine smaller, lol!
Edit: I even gave them another try lately. would do 30 min of calves first thing on leg day, fuck it... After 4 weeks no change at all. It's just not worth the cns taxing in my case when I could use that energy on other body parts.
Been doing calf raises-pausing at the top for a five-count for the last few weeks and the results have been promising. Using moderate weight on the leg press, ignoring the stretch at the bottom, only focusing on the pause at the top.
Calves are stubborn and I'm not saying this is a magic bullet, but if you rarely feel a burn when working calves, give it a shot. You can test it out in your living room right now. Take off your shoes and try to do 20 (better stretch without shoes. Not as important if you are using weight)
how do you break it down? Just do as many as you can until you get 107 total?Just 107 slow reps no matter what.
Upright rows are the key to calf and quad mass. Just look at Wolf's improvement with just one rep:
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=534605.0;attach=563240;image)
(http://i.imgur.com/vWcVbnL.jpg)
My calves now by the way. Still flat as DLB's quads on soleus which pisses me off no end.
Couple years ago calves made me look like a double peg legged extra in a pirate movie.
Upright rows are the key to calf and quad mass. Just look at Wolf's improvement with just one rep:
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=534605.0;attach=563240;image)
Note to self. Lustral not white.
Of course he's not white, that's why the mudshark in the background is lusting after him.
My calf routine is just wearing long pants.
Melanotan...
There are posts of me as pale as a ghost on here.
(http://i.imgur.com/UIh20wD.jpg)
Fat face, whatever...
Melanotan...
There are posts of me as pale as a ghost on here.
(http://i.imgur.com/UIh20wD.jpg)
Fat face, whatever...
top level groundskeeper of that place behind you
He is the top level groundskeeper. :-X
is he really?
That place is well kept.
Trimming those bushes individually to that level is outstanding.
sometime I miss that work
I know, I have pics of you. No homo.
I don't know, just messing around. Great lawn, far better than navy mikes.
top level groundskeeper of that place behind youYou were into grounds keeping for a minute.
You were into grounds keeping for a minute.
Note to self. Lustral not white. ;D
My calves were at their best when I was squatting and deadlifting. I did a few sets of calf exercises each week as well, but powerlifting made them grow.
I don’t squat or deadlift now, and they're 2" smaller.
I've just found mixing it up works well. Anything none seated I just use my bodyweight.8)
although pellius and i dont see eye to eye on most things,......I believe that it`s pinned at the top of the training forum
he supposedly has the best calf routine that has yielded the best results on the entire internet
im not sure how to find it
I believe that it`s pinned at the top of the training forum
I've just found mixing it up works well. Anything none seated I just use my bodyweight.
So you confuse the muscle to shock it into growth?
Melanotan...Do you even lift?
There are posts of me as pale as a ghost on here.
(http://i.imgur.com/UIh20wD.jpg)
Fat face, whatever...
Melanotan...
There are posts of me as pale as a ghost on here.
(http://i.imgur.com/UIh20wD.jpg)
Fat face, whatever...
Bowed legs of peace.He could walk right over a fire hydrant without changing his stride. :D
;D
Training forum?
Anyways, ignore what any guide or rule says. Do what works for you. If you have bad insertions you will never get Yates like calves. I tried everything training wise... and high volume heavy/low weight and high/low rep mix 5/6 days a week works for me.
If doing 100 reps on a step everyday works do that, try it first.
Re groundskeeping: That is my parents' house, professionally maintained by landscapers. I cut grass and remove weeds in my (small) garden.
My sisters and I often take piss out of parents that pampas grass (in background) is apparently a symbol for swinger couples.
if you rarely feel a burn when working calves
If your calves aren't getting larger, I'd suggest training them on a three-day cycle. Do a heavy workout the first day, a short pumping session the next and rest them completely the third day.
A pump day like this actually stimulates recovery, because it forces blood into the muscle and pushes waste products out.
Try it, if you aren't growing you need to look at your diet...
I had been making some progress in my shit calves when I blew my Achilles two years ago. Now the surgically repaired one is permanently about 40% weaker and about 1/2" smaller. I believe that the tendon healed just a tiny bit longer than previous. So now I have one shit calf and one calf from a paraplegic. FML :-\
^^Broscience Alert!!
A severely sprained ankle some how manifested in me not being able to flex my right calf muscle for the last 12 years.
After training with a rucksack and logging tons of miles that changed for the first time a few weeks ago.
^^
Not Quite...
First off, low-rep training with heavy loads translates into an ability to use more weight during [your] 'hypertrophy range, which increases time under tension and thus enhances growth...
Alternatively, high-rep training with light weights helps increase buffering capacity, allowing you to crank out an extra couple of reps at a moderate-rep range. Moreover, heavier-load training tends to target the high-capacity muscles associated with the largest type-II muscle fibers, while light-load training focuses more on the endurance-oriented type-I fibers.
What does all of this mean, GetBiggers? This combination of training approaches maximizes hypertrophy along the spectrum of fiber types. In other words, training with this variety of volume and intensity will maximize your ability to grow.
^^Double-Down Broscience Alert!!!
^^
So what's your great advice?? You BLEW your calves, right? Mixing Heavy/Light training works for me, and I'm injury free...
At least if you are KNOCKING someone, BRING something to the table yourself.
one word...bathtubTell me, Clarice. Has the tub stopped screaming? Wonder how many people still remember that pic? ;D
Arnold and most of his era,worked calves daily starting whatever bodypart of the day off with calves first.
Just a thought.
So you confuse the muscle to shock it into growth?
They all had decent calves then as well, at least built with hard work and not just site injections.[/b]
I did Arnold double split from the Encyclopedia of Modern bodybuilding(original edition, which had better inspiring photos btw) back in the summer of 1987.
LOL, I lasted about 6-8 weeks, but it taught me the value of hard work in the gym. Do something like that for a while might not make the best gains but it makes everything else easier and I exploded in pure natural strength and bulk size the 2 years after once I went over to the 3 and 4 day on, 1-2 days off split
PS- I did not see mentioned here, but 1 element of calf training that is often ignore is doing calf raises for the front of the calf. Some gyms I belonged to over the years had the special apparatus for this, if not simply sit on the floor in front of the low pully and put your foot(shoe on) into the attachment for 1 arm movements and do the raises pulling with the top of your foot
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that won't help someone with shitty ass calves, lol... You can do it on a lower pulley attachement if you really wanted to. That is a "finishing touch" move, won't put on inches to someone who is struggling with calve development. It really has to be the least used machine of them all.
If you have great calves any thing you do will enhance them but that does not necessarily mean you are training them correctly. If you are having and have always been having difficulty adding size and definition to your calves due to some genetic limitation it is because you have not been training them correctly and have been following routines that have been parroted down forever in every article you read. I'm sure you have tried every magazine routine possible and have had very little success and have come to the conclusion that you just cannot have stellar calves and will just continue to wear sweatpants to the gym. This is not true for you. 1st you have been lead to believe that you must train the soleus and the gastrocnemius separately. You cannot separate out the individual muscles of the calves as both of these muscles will fire. Training the calves in a bent knee position (seated) greatly reduces the amount of resistance that can be used and is extremely detrimental in what you are trying to accomplish, which is hypertrophy based upon the first law of moving max resistance for your desired number of repetitions. 2nd you have been lead to believe that the calves require a complete full range of motion (ROM) on the negative stretch. This is completely false and once again detrimental to your goal of using as much resistance as possible. You need only go parallel. Any further limits power! 3rd you have been lead to believe that calves require higher reps (remember a rep is just a unit of time) again higher repetitions is detrimental to your goal of using maximum resistance. Calves are best trained in the 4-8 rep range using a Standing or Donkey calve machine. You can push as high up on the positive as possible for the first 4 reps and then continue on for mini partials, as calves are one of the only muscles that will fire using mini partials. Correct these three fallacies and you will use 100's of pounds more resistance immediately. Now for the point that is crucial for your calve development. Always use bands in conjunction with the machine as a form of added resistance from the start at warm ups through your heaviest set. Bands will incrementally increase up to 100's of pounds of added resistance when needed most at the point of peak contraction where you are at your strongest while providing a constant increase in TUT during the positive and a strong damaging gravitational assist on the negative. One rep with bands assisting will create more complete tension for growth then multiple reps without bands. What this means is that the low repetitions that you are doing with tremendously heavier resistance, always creating an increase in TUT from the added band tension, equates to the theory of using higher reps except your poundage will be astronomical compared to trying to grind out 20 lesser tensioned repetitions. I gave up all hope until I was able to extrapolate out this training method. I never thought it would be possible to make any improvements in my genetically high inserted calves. They are not gigantic and never will be, but they are stellar.good read ergo...thanks..
calves band work 2-4 working sets twice a week...
Most people"Stubborn" calvesareoftengenetically hopelesscalves,science is settled here.
calves band work 2-4 working sets twice a week...
Upright rows are the key to calf and quad mass. Just look at Wolf's improvement with just one rep:
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=534605.0;attach=563240;image)
Am I the only one that had hoped ergo's calves were bigger? No doubt they are ripped...