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MaGilicuti
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My calves are SUPER small. Please help me out. I do 3 sets of donkey calf and 3 sets of sitting. I am really seeing no improvement. I try to do them eod as well.
Calves, mine will just not grow
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diamonddiceclay
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do high reps
Rémy!
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I work them as any other muscle most of the time (1-2 week), not eod, and heavy @ 6-15 reps.
Do more sets, exhaust them. One way is to always superset one calve exercise with another such as standing strait footed - with sitting raises (in another footing position) . Work them hard - give them priority on the days you use them and you will no doubt see results.
IMO you will get better results by spending a workout with only calves (or 1 more bodypart) - really kicking their ass until exhaustion - and giving them enough time off to recover.
Do more sets, exhaust them. One way is to always superset one calve exercise with another such as standing strait footed - with sitting raises (in another footing position) . Work them hard - give them priority on the days you use them and you will no doubt see results.
IMO you will get better results by spending a workout with only calves (or 1 more bodypart) - really kicking their ass until exhaustion - and giving them enough time off to recover.
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MaGilicuti
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how many exercises should i do for them? 3? i need these calves to grow damn it
gymtime
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Calves are probably among the top two or three muscle groups that seem to be the most resistant to excercise. They are easily the hardest thing to build unless you have them naturally which is very rare.
Stuff to try:
Like Remy said, try supersetting with one standing calf and one seated. Do three to four sets each.
Concentrate on a long range of motion and controlled movement. Squeeze the calf at the top of the excercise and don't bounce.
Try hesitating for a one-count at the top of the movement, then come down slowly. Keep the rep range fairly high. I'll go anywhere from 10-18 reps.
Stuff to try:
Like Remy said, try supersetting with one standing calf and one seated. Do three to four sets each.
Concentrate on a long range of motion and controlled movement. Squeeze the calf at the top of the excercise and don't bounce.
Try hesitating for a one-count at the top of the movement, then come down slowly. Keep the rep range fairly high. I'll go anywhere from 10-18 reps.
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MaGilicuti
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bump for BIGGER calves!
TheProject
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Here's a thread with some suggestions I got for my calves...
http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=85419&highlight=hard+gainers+calves
http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=85419&highlight=hard+gainers+calves
frorider6
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What works for me (and I only found this out recently):
Monday - Seated Calf raises 2 sets of 20 reps each.
Wed - Standing calf raise 2 sets 20 reps each.
Last rep almost has me in tears. The pain factor usually stopped me before I hit failure. Now I try to push through as much pain as is possible.
For standing, I shoulder a bar just like in squats. Then put the balls of my feet on a couple 25 lb plates laid on the floor. I probably don't get as good of a range of motion as donkey raises, but I use a lot more of the muscle for stabilizing (and I'm not gonna have a guy ride me piggyback while I do donkies)
Monday - Seated Calf raises 2 sets of 20 reps each.
Wed - Standing calf raise 2 sets 20 reps each.
Last rep almost has me in tears. The pain factor usually stopped me before I hit failure. Now I try to push through as much pain as is possible.
For standing, I shoulder a bar just like in squats. Then put the balls of my feet on a couple 25 lb plates laid on the floor. I probably don't get as good of a range of motion as donkey raises, but I use a lot more of the muscle for stabilizing (and I'm not gonna have a guy ride me piggyback while I do donkies)
SteelWeaver
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frorider6 said:
What a pity, because donkeys kick ass! (LOL!) No, but really, right now I'm doing the Poliquin routine that's in Project's link up there, and it's incredible! The pump is amazing! I've limped out of the gym on a leg day before, but this one makes you limp from just calves.
Having a person on your back rather than doing machine donkeys is also cool, because the rocking makes you use ALL your stabilisers.
I suggest you go ask the biggest guy in your gym if he wouldn't mind takin' a ride!
Lord_Suston
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I find that after squat my calves a re taking a beating but I don't let them rest try 3 set opf seated raises relative light weight pause at the top and bottom for about .5-1 sec at each part and focus on the contrastion then goto standind and repeat......
calvesodeath
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Much of calf development is genetics but try standing calf raises and sitting calf raises. Most importantly, continue on your reps until you feel them burn!
MaGilicuti
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been doing sitting and standing raises and alternating between the two. one set standing, one set sitting. its been killing and hopefully i'll see some improvement soon...
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