Arm Size and calves correlation?

[Deleted member 33117]

Fatty, not talking about standing machines, my old gym had one that when up to 600, but you could add 10 45's on the bars up top, when I left that gym I was doing about 8 reps with 1050. Now I do them on a leg press machine. This morning I did 16 plates for about 60 reps on set one, then around 45 reps on #2. 3rd set was 20 plates for about 30, then managed to squeeze out 14 with 24 plates. It takes less than 5 minutes to finish my weekly calf workout.
Same here zyg, have 18" arms and calves, I have to back down my calf training abit when then get bigger than my arms... it seems my arms take forever to grow. January will be my 3 year mark though, so 18" arms arn't horrible for less than 3 years of training, they just look a bit undersized with my 51" chest and 30" thighs. Same here on the waist, mine is down to 32" but I'm not yet in contest condition. had it down to 28 for some photos almost 2 years ago, so hopefully if I keep dieting and stay on the tren those last 4" will come off.

 

[Fatty4You]

stand up. raise up on your foot like doing a calve raise but only on one foot. Easy? try it 10 times. Well, i bet that was easy too ....

ok...... what have we learned. each calve can raise your body weight fine. So double that....... for you thats 440lbs you should start off training with. i mean, the first day you ever do standing calve raises, you should be doing at least twice your bodyweight.

Yes, it is easy to do 10 raises on one foot standing on the ground, but that is like a one inch rep. I am sure, that if i was on a raised platform, and going all the way down on each rep it would be harder.

And i have heard this kind of argument before. Its like if someone says that everytime you walk and take a step, your calve is raising your whole body weight. This might be true, but its not a full rep. I mean, i could probably walk a little with 400lbs on my shoulders, but this certainly doesn't mean that i could sqauts 400.

But anyway, i will try going heavier on the standing calves to see how it feels. I just get nervous that when i am lifting the higher weight, i wont be able to get the best ROM, which people always tell me is sooo important for calves.

-Fatty

 

[epimetheus]

and epi, are you asian by chance?

Not Asian here. French and Welsh are my major bloods. Not sure what else.