my calves SUCK!!! help me build 'em

[ann]

We use a smith machine for standing; hack squat (facing in) for an alternative to standing (great stretch); we do donkeys (I sit on their back, sometimes two of us); seated with seated machine, but you could sit on a bench, put your toes on a box, and stack a 45 or two on your legs with a towel under them and do seated.

Don't need fancy machines, improvise.

If you work calves the way I train my clients, a 20 min calf session once a week is all you'll need. Most are lucky if they aren't still sore from last week's session.

People that train calves 3x per week aren't training them hard enough each session. If they were, they wouldn't be able to train them that often.

W6

If I had someone standing over me, training me, I suppose one day a week on calves would work. I am alone, go very heavy on all machines, and have found working MINE 3 days a week is making them finally grow. And they do hurt like a son of a gun. One day was not doing squat....FOR ME .

 

[takniteasy]

Reverse on hack squat machine is killer! And leg press. Just go HEAVY to build mass. And make sure you get a good stretch afterwards.

 

[Sassy69]

Is there a point where the weight of the lift would hurt the structure of your foot or pressure on your knee?

 

[ann]

Just telling W6 what works for some might not work for others Feeling a little cocky tonight, especially if I am messin with W6's philosophy


Anyone else out here train calves more than one day a week?