for those of you who feel that they have a good barbell calf raise to barbell squat ratio how much can you squat compared to calf raise? Just looking to fix my imbalances in leg strength and any input will help
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Thread: squat to calf raise ratio
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maybe to you it may seem silly that i want to know how strong my plantar flexion should be in comparison to my squat, but we all know the importance of balance for athletes and since i currently have in imbalance of strength i want to know how much i need to work on calf raises to fix it. I honestly don't know what is so silly about this question in comparison to alot of the other questions that are usually asked around
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i wasn't pinpointing the cause of my stress to be weak calf raises xD, as i said it doesn't help so i would like to strengthen my calf raise along with going easier on the squats for a while
thank you for a seirous reply and yes i do realize the importance of hip strength and i am sure that neither that nor technique is contributing to my pain, its probably mostly due to the increased intensity of my workload
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[Rippetoe]The ideal squat to calf raise ratio is 1:1.387. If your ratio is not precisely that, I will have you killed. It's important to be ideal.[/Rippetoe]
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i was always under the influence that symmetry in the strength of the muscles and tendons connecting to a joint is important for the joint health and to prevent injury, are you saying that the calf muscle and achillles tendon are both unimportant to the knee?
the teen section would be alot more focused on doint 20 calf raises to get big calf, id assume that this section would be alot more worried of gaining strength rather then just getting a pumpLast edited by qdiddy69; 03-01-2009 at 08:16 PM.
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i don't have a video currently but to get into my workout routine as of lately i have been doing all my squats at very high intensity 4 reps or less coupled with high intensitiy plyometrics, and my knee pain has just recently starting coming back (I use to squat with bad form that i fixed a while back). Im also getting some hip pain too btw..
I realize i might get a comment saying that my calf raises isn't the reason im getting knee pain and its more of an overtraining thing, but again im only trying to work on calf raises because i feel that it doesn't help the situation i am also going to go down in intensity on my squats
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you can find out how strong your hips and knees are in comparison to your lower leg, i don't understand how thats not usefull
a majority of the muscles used in the squat connect to the knee and the muscles in the calf raise also connect to your knee their for i would assume it would be usefull to know if all those muscles had a balance of strength. Am i looking at this in the wrong way?
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Okay; you want the strength of your muscles to be in symmetry. How does comparing an isolation movement, that uses primarily one muscle with virtually no involvement in the squat, to a compound movement, that uses more muscles than any other strength lift, help you to discern this? Why wouldn't you compare individual isolation movements or individual compound movements.
Or why wouldn't you just get as strong as possible in every lift like a normal person does? Because I can assure you that doing this will give you the strongest knees possible.
What you are doing is like trying to give your car a stronger engine by buying new wiper blades. IT MAKES NO SENSE!Last edited by bango skank; 03-01-2009 at 09:08 PM.
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