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Best machine to develop calves on woman, for home use
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It's going to be very hard to train your calves efficiently at home because the calves are a very strong muscle that need a lot of weight to be stimulated to grow and you need to do both straight leg and seated movements to train both muscles in the calf.
The calf muscles are one of the largest endurance muscles in your body. Trying to get your calve muscles to grow is almost the equivalent of trying to get the muscles in your jaw to grow. Think about it. Your calves are designed to be able to carry you for hours if you needed to walk a far distance.
Calves respond best to high reps and low reps. They are a mix of type 1, 2a and 2b muscle fibres. I recommend hitting them every other day or twice per week and alternating heavy days (6-10 rep ranges for working sets) and volume days (10-100 rep ranges for working sets).
Remember to do some seated calf exercises in addition to straight leg calf exercises to ensure you hit both the gastronomeus and soleus muscles.
I would say the two best exercises for calves are standing calf raises and seated calf raises.
The calf muscles are one of the largest endurance muscles in your body. Trying to get your calve muscles to grow is almost the equivalent of trying to get the muscles in your jaw to grow. Think about it. Your calves are designed to be able to carry you for hours if you needed to walk a far distance.
Calves respond best to high reps and low reps. They are a mix of type 1, 2a and 2b muscle fibres. I recommend hitting them every other day or twice per week and alternating heavy days (6-10 rep ranges for working sets) and volume days (10-100 rep ranges for working sets).
Remember to do some seated calf exercises in addition to straight leg calf exercises to ensure you hit both the gastronomeus and soleus muscles.
I would say the two best exercises for calves are standing calf raises and seated calf raises.
Get something like a couple of bricks, and stand on them just with your tiptoes - and start moving your calves up and down. You can get on yourself some additional weight if you want to stress them more. For example, I do this exercise at home with my wife on my back. Most probably you will have trouble doing this exercise with weights at home, but you can definitely work for reps in these conditions.
you should never just train 1 muscle like this anyway
it is quite a bizarre post. weight training should be done properly, this means training all muscle groups and avoiding imbalances. if you only train calves you will build them up but ignore the front of the leg and the upper leg muscles. this is not good
it is quite a bizarre post. weight training should be done properly, this means training all muscle groups and avoiding imbalances. if you only train calves you will build them up but ignore the front of the leg and the upper leg muscles. this is not good
I would say donkey calf raises and just normal calf raises on a step would be the best calf exercises at home.
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