Great post man. I've got spindles for calves so hopefully this will help them grow.
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Thread: CALVES- Lets grow them!
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01-12-2010, 09:16 AM #31
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01-12-2010, 09:24 AM #32
Nice Post! Definately going to try out some of those moves this week.
People always forget that the calve muslces repair themselves very quickly. They take a 2 minutes break between their bench press sets and think that calves need the same thing.
I like to do a set, quickly stretch the calves for 5-10 seconds and then jump back in for another set.
One problem I have right now is that my left calve is about half an inch smaller than my right...it isn't too noticeable right now but I want to correct it before it gets worse.
Any suggestions?*Strong Everything 2018 Champion*
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01-12-2010, 09:27 AM #33
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01-14-2010, 09:22 PM #34
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01-14-2010, 09:28 PM #35
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01-14-2010, 09:38 PM #36
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01-14-2010, 10:15 PM #37
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01-15-2010, 04:09 AM #39
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I like using a dip belt to do double-leg calf raises. You can do upright style or the donkey variants for a deeper stretch.
Here is another way of doing donkey calf raises but I don't recommend it without more padding (a cushion).
You can also hook up a dip belt to a low cable pulley.
http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/...CalfRaise.html (can't embed the image)
My second favourite is the one leg dumbbell calf raise.
I don't have a seated calf raise machine. Doing this exercise with a barbell or dumbbell on my knees didn't feel right. I liked the calf raise lunge better. You only need to use relatively light weights on this exercise as you are doing it with most of your bodyweight plus just one calf at a time.
I also want to add that while most people do calf raises off a block, I think there is value in doing them flat footed some of time. The extra weight is a good way to overload the muscles. A cool way to incorporate this is to do flat footed calf raises supersetted with calf raises off a block where you just do the bottom half of the rep in the second exercise.Last edited by _OZ_; 01-15-2010 at 04:24 AM.
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01-15-2010, 04:14 AM #40
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01-15-2010, 04:44 AM #41
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I did the tibialis anterior one with a dumbbell for the first time today. WOW! What an awesome exercise. Also, that chart a few posts up is great. It took a bit of reading to figure out the difference between soleus and gastrocnemius, but that chart makes it pretty clear that the soleus is essentially below it.
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02-04-2010, 02:06 AM #43
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02-04-2010, 02:10 AM #44
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02-04-2010, 03:32 AM #45
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02-04-2010, 04:22 AM #48
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Awesome post Ironlife! I always did calf raises while standing up with DB's, cant wait to try doing it seated this time around.
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02-04-2010, 10:37 AM #49
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02-27-2010, 06:28 AM #50
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02-27-2010, 07:41 AM #52
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02-27-2010, 07:44 AM #53
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03-05-2010, 10:03 AM #54
Bump back to relevance. 5 star thread.
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03-06-2010, 07:49 AM #55
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03-06-2010, 11:28 AM #56
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03-06-2010, 11:36 AM #57
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03-06-2010, 11:50 AM #58
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03-06-2010, 02:26 PM #59
agreed. Its frustrating. Especially since I've never had much of a problem growing most other muscles, as long as I put the time/effort in, but it seems like my calves stay small even if I'm working my ass off.
Luckily this thread has supplied me with a bunch of new techniques, some of which I just got back from testing out and they felt great.
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