Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below My gym is very limited on calf exercises. Right now I do the calfs on the leg press after my presses. I also hold a dumb bell while do one legged calf exercises on the back side on the incline bench. Is doing six sets with two different exercinse going to grow my calfs or am I going to need to add something else. If yes, what should I add?
Limited Gym What are Some Good Calf Exercises
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blood_drinker
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well since we have answers like the above, snowboard with a heavy backpack.
Jump back on the leg press and change the width between your feet to emphasize one of the 2 heads in the gastrocnemius. I think wide works the inner heads and narrow (feet together) works the outer heads. Also change the placement of the db when you do standing calf raises. Switch sides or put it in front of you.
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Welsh power house
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sysopt said:
not true at all, sorry sysopt, i dont want to have a go at you, but calfs respond better to higher reps.....beleive me, my calfs used to suck(still do, but improving!) i used to do reps6-8....then changed to 15+....still not much growth, i now do 20-30 reps, and i hit them twice a week at home, not on any other weights day....believe me higher reps on calf training is the way to go!
I think that there are more slow twitch(red) muscle fibres in the gastrocnemius and soleus oppesed to the (white) fast twitch muscle fibres in other groups.
Slow twitch muslce fibres respond better to endurance tyoe training, this is why you see cyclists and other endurance type athletes with large calf muscles.
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matter of fact, i know that i was right, i did some damn reserch on it......the web rules!!
First I would like to say everyone is different and therefore respond differently to exercises. You have to experiment a bit to figure out what's best for you. My calves used to be a piece of flabby shit until I hit em heavy. Arnolds calves were one of his most lagging body parts and until he starting doing standing calf raises with 500 lbs. or so (read: heavy) they wouldn't grow.
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Welsh power house
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arnold also used steroids........read:drugs, so they grew!!
Welsh power house
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you dont have do do high reps with heavy weight, i do 20-30 and reach failure...arnold might have been doing 500lbs for 3 reps or 20 reps.....any way, dont compare probably the best bodybuilder ever to an average joe here on elite, no offense!
Welsh power house
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sysopt said:
dont be stupid, yes, there are different ratios, but the over all complex is the same, every one has far more slow twitch opposed to fast twitch in their calves...this is very childish, i dont want to fight over calf training, i have done research for sports sceince assignments on this stuff so lets just leave it, lets grow up....
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sysopt and WPH are both right. Variety is key. Heavy one day, light the next. I've got good results doing them twice per week. One day is an all out thrash consisting of 3 different exercises. The next is 4-6 sets on the standing calf machine. What you got going isn't bad at all.
make your self a claf block and hit some donkeys with the fattest/biggest person you now. They look gay but they work super!
MonStar1023
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I think that you can get a pretty good calf workout with leg press calf raises and one-db calf raises. One tactic that I find is very important with 1-db calf raises is drop sets. I do an 80 lbs. db, then go to a 50, then finish with a 30. It really torches my calves all the way.
Good luck bro.
Good luck bro.
diamonddiceclay
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can you do standing calf raises or seated calf raises?
You think that your gym is limited? I have a power rack, a squat bar, and a small box...and it works great!!!!!!! Also...you can get a harness and try truck or sled pulling. Works wonders.
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