Standing Calf Raise Machine a dying breed?

[pinfante]

I belong to 3 gyms 2 are very new and not 1 have a simple standing calf raise machine. The LA Fitness and Powerhouse Gym opened in the past year. Just that awful seated horizontal calf raise machine. - Something like this.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkeweUb_Nd4

Is this a trend or my bad luck?

[air2fakie]

Lots of commercial gyms either only have the seated one or nothing at all. Just do single leg calf raises standing on a stepper with a db in one hand & the other hand holding something for balance. With the bodyweight over one leg you don't even need a super heavy db.

[pinfante]

Lots of commercial gyms either only have the seated one or nothing at all. Just do single leg raises standing on a stepper with a db in one hand & the other hand holding something for support. With the bodyweight over one leg you don't even need a super heavy db.

I use the preacher curl bench to do body weight after i use the horizontal machine. There is like a raised cross support in the front of it that has enough of a lift to do raises same with the spotting platform on some incline bench set ups. And actually slow eccentric bodyweight calf raises to failure rest 10 seconds, fail again and repeat works quite well.

But its just weird how such a staple of gyms is going away in the standing calf raise machine.

[air2fakie]

I use the preacher curl bench to do body weight after i use the horizontal machine. There is like a raised cross support in the front of it that has enough of a lift to do raises same with the spotting platform on some incline bench set ups. And actually slow eccentric bodyweight calf raises to failure rest 10 seconds, fail again and repeat works quite well.

But its just weird how such a staple of gyms is going away in the standing calf raise machine.

You can also do them in the leg press with your tiptoes at the bottom of the platform, but even that's better when doing it 1-leg at a time.

But that's also pretty similar to your horizontal machine (when I responded above I hadn't looked at your link yet & thought you were referring to the even crappier plate loaded seated machine that barely works the main part of the calves).

[TolerantLactose]

This is one thing I might do with a Smith machine.

[Duplicitous]

I would occasionally use the one at LAF just because it was there, but I usually did them on the Smith or occasionally on the 45-degree leg press. Now that I've abandoned commercial gyms, I do barbell standing calf raises or use the leg press. I briefly had a Reflex standing calf, but sold it within a week as I decided I just didn't want to dedicate the space to it.

This is one thing I might do with a Smith machine.

It's one of the few movements I prefer doing on a Smith.

[grumpytude]

one of the first pieces I bought for my home gym. never giving it up. Its a York I believe.

[pinfante]

one of the first pieces I bought for my home gym. never giving it up. Its a York I believe.

Thats awesome. and a dying bread sadly.