calves?

[skaman607]

haha, well i guess thats about right..

i've never been sarcastic in a serious convo on here, until now. some people need it

it will do their blood pressure good

 

[gsxr600]

day 1
donkey calve raises
seated calve raises
standing calve raises (drop set) to failure

day 2
seated
standing
dumbel calve raises (dumbell on knee)

 

[crew9]

I never understood why people think that lots of reps and sets and volume are the key to building big calves. Your calves are made to handle many repetitions for long periods of time, cough walking. I've always had sucess with low reps and heavy weight. Then again my calves got worked high volume from vball. Hmmmmm. I also never understood why everyone works them out more than once a week really. They're a muscle like every other muscle you lift. They need time off. Would you do bench press 2-3 times a week? Two days seems like it would be ok which most of you guys say your doing, but I hear guys working their calves out like 3-4 days a week. That's just crazy.

 

[downsent]

I just thought I'd throw this in, mabey I can get some constructive critisism. A guy I worked with used to be a body builder apparently and he told me to do this thing where i get on a set of stairs and start by doing one calve raise on the first one then 2 on the nnext 3 and the next ans so on to the top. Then I rest two minutes and go down straing with the number of reps I finished with. I have to use dumbbells now, my calves blew up pretty fast it was kinda amazing...

 

[b fold the truth]

Sunday:
Standing calf raises
I rotate weights and reps every week going from 5's, 8's, and 10's. I try to set a PR for that rep scheme every time I do that rep scheme. I end up doing 3-6 sets in total...usually 6.

Wednesday:
Seated Calf Raises or Standing
if Seated then: 4 sets of 25 with 15 sec rest between sets
if Standing then: Bodyweight x 5 both, 5 right leg, 5 left leg, 5 both...repeat for 2 total sets.
Standing Calf Raises with no toe elevation: 5 straight, turn 180 degrees on toes, 5 straight, repeat turn, 5 straight...repeat for a total of 2 sets.
Reverse Standing Calf Raises: Bodyweight x 20 x 2 sets

All in all it should not take more than 5-10 minutes TOTAL to do calves.

B True

 

[louden_swain]

My routine is simple:

Seated Toe Raises - 3 x failure
Standing Toe Raises - 3 x failure

It doesn't take much to trash my calves, so I keep the sets low. I think high reps works the best.

 

[coolcolj]

No need to do seated calf raises because full squats do the same thing for the soleus IMO

Gastrocs are mostly white fiber, no point in doing high reps. Gotta hit the heavy and explosive. SPrints, jumps, high pulls, RDLs onto toes, deadlift onto toes etc

machines suck - so why would calf training be any different? Single leg explosive calf raises holding a dumbell does the trick

 

[Zyglamail]

I simply do 3 sets of toe raises on hack squat machine I get about 12 reps first set, 10 second and 8 the third, I add weight everyworkout I can.....until I pulled something in my back, then I switched and went lighter, currently working my way back up in weight.

 

[Intenceman]

Two sets performed as follows:

Standing Calf Raises one leg at a time until failure,, drop, repeat, drop, repeat.

Doesn't sound like a lot but each set is a killer and I start with 600 lbs with each leg, ending up around 420.

Every 6 weeks I go to a few weeks of straight sets.

 

[Intenceman]

Two sets performed as follows:

Standing Calf Raises one leg at a time until failure,then force out as many reps as possible with both legs, drop, repeat, drop, repeat.

Doesn't sound like a lot but each set is a killer and I start with 600 lbs with each leg, ending up around 420.

Every 6 weeks I go to a few weeks of straight sets.