How To Get BIGGER CALVES (3 MISTAKES YOU'RE MAKING)
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I workout at home and do work on my calves every time I workout.
I do a combo of bodyweight and weight exercise.
One of the bodyweight exercises I use I learned from the late, great John Meadows:
Standing Calf raise with a static 10 sec. hold every 10 reps. I take my time doing each rep
and then when I hit 10 I do a a static 10 second hold at the top. I repeat the process until my calves are literally on fire and can't bear it anymore, which is usually 40 or 50 reps.
I also do unilateral moves like seated and standing calf raises - bodyweight/ weight. And also do an exercise for my Anterior Tibalis that is identical to a cable wrist curl using my feet. LOL. I'm fortunate to have an old universal gym from the 80s!
Date: 2022-04-22
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Liam
Simple solution. stop trying to train your calves in a gym. Throw a bunch of weight on your back and go for a 10-15 mile hike up and down a mountain as often as you can. Ever seen a HUUGE dude lose a bunch of weight and get shredded? Big calves right? That's because for YEARS they walked around carrying all that extra weight.
I am fortunate enough to be able to hike every weekend. If you don't live near any mountains, find a steepish hill and repeatedly walk up and down it with 50-100lbs on your back. You'll get big calves.
You use your calves with literally every step you take, they don't care about even 50 calf raises with heavy weight. The only way to actually progressively overload them is to add weight and go for a really long ass walk, preferably up an incline.
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Simple solution. stop trying to train your calves in a gym. Throw a bunch of weight on your back and go for a 10-15 mile hike up and down a mountain as often as you can. Ever seen a HUUGE dude lose a bunch of weight and get shredded? Big calves right? That's because for YEARS they walked around carrying all that extra weight.
I am fortunate enough to be able to hike every weekend. If you don't live near any mountains, find a steepish hill and repeatedly walk up and down it with 50-100lbs on your back. You'll get big calves.
You use your calves with literally every step you take, they don't care about even 50 calf raises with heavy weight. The only way to actually progressively overload them is to add weight and go for a really long ass walk, preferably up an incline.
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William
Many years ago I talked to Joe Weider about my calves and the routine I was doing. At the end of the conversation he bluntly told me, -Son it boils down to Genetics! - Most of us calf challenged dudes, you know -Chicken Legs- can't build our calves! We can make them stronger but size ain't gonna happen!
Point being, I rode a cross Canada bicycle trip, a few years after I had my talk with Joe Weider, and I took measurements of my thighs and calves prior to the ride. I gained 2- on my thighs and nothing on my calves lol.
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Many years ago I talked to Joe Weider about my calves and the routine I was doing. At the end of the conversation he bluntly told me, -Son it boils down to Genetics! - Most of us calf challenged dudes, you know -Chicken Legs- can't build our calves! We can make them stronger but size ain't gonna happen!
Point being, I rode a cross Canada bicycle trip, a few years after I had my talk with Joe Weider, and I took measurements of my thighs and calves prior to the ride. I gained 2- on my thighs and nothing on my calves lol.
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Bryan
Good evening, I first want to say how much I have enjoyed your videos and I have incorporated many of the techniques you have shown into my own workout over the last year and have seen good results. If I may ask, how do you have approach workouts with individuals with congestive heath failure? Cardio has been something that my doctors have really pushed, mostly with jogging, running or other aerobic activity and weight lifting, and I quote, 'toning purposes only'. I was hoping for your thoughts on this.
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Good evening, I first want to say how much I have enjoyed your videos and I have incorporated many of the techniques you have shown into my own workout over the last year and have seen good results. If I may ask, how do you have approach workouts with individuals with congestive heath failure? Cardio has been something that my doctors have really pushed, mostly with jogging, running or other aerobic activity and weight lifting, and I quote, 'toning purposes only'. I was hoping for your thoughts on this.
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Java
About a year ago I did 5 sets of 200 standing body weight calf raises (total 1000. My legs ached like a toothache for the rest of the day. Could hardly walk the next day. Calves were sore for better part of a week. Have done it off and on since. Similar results but never quite as severe as the first time. I actually love the feeling of soreness my muscles get after an intense w/o. It's what keeps me working out, addiction. Try the 1000 reps, see what you think.
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About a year ago I did 5 sets of 200 standing body weight calf raises (total 1000. My legs ached like a toothache for the rest of the day. Could hardly walk the next day. Calves were sore for better part of a week. Have done it off and on since. Similar results but never quite as severe as the first time. I actually love the feeling of soreness my muscles get after an intense w/o. It's what keeps me working out, addiction. Try the 1000 reps, see what you think.
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garrett
How I grew my calves, ate like a dumpster fire, throwing trash inside of me for 6 years stoking they black smoke.
Once I had reached compactor size, the sheer movement of my body only meant one thing, my calves were working overtime just to get to the next donut.
I decided to lose about 40 pounds which still put me at being overweight but the size of my calves stayed the same and I get comments on them every where I go, thanks trivago
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How I grew my calves, ate like a dumpster fire, throwing trash inside of me for 6 years stoking they black smoke.
Once I had reached compactor size, the sheer movement of my body only meant one thing, my calves were working overtime just to get to the next donut.
I decided to lose about 40 pounds which still put me at being overweight but the size of my calves stayed the same and I get comments on them every where I go, thanks trivago
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nosirrahx
Found a crazy secret for calves. Wearing super tight compression socks resists foot extension and flexion so if you go for a long walk, its like walking with resistance bands holding your foot in place. Every step you work against them. The calf burn is absolutely unreal. I've never lifted calves once in my life but have absolutely jacked calves from walking in compression socks 3 or 4 miles 5 days a week.
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Found a crazy secret for calves. Wearing super tight compression socks resists foot extension and flexion so if you go for a long walk, its like walking with resistance bands holding your foot in place. Every step you work against them. The calf burn is absolutely unreal. I've never lifted calves once in my life but have absolutely jacked calves from walking in compression socks 3 or 4 miles 5 days a week.
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John
-As much time as it takes you to strip the weights, is as much time as they need-. May be so for you, but you can't generalize mate. My experience (more than 45 year of training) has never been that. After about 20 slowish reps with full contraction, my calves just die and I can't do another decent set for at least two minutes. It may be bad circulation but, hey, I just chose the wrong parents.
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-As much time as it takes you to strip the weights, is as much time as they need-. May be so for you, but you can't generalize mate. My experience (more than 45 year of training) has never been that. After about 20 slowish reps with full contraction, my calves just die and I can't do another decent set for at least two minutes. It may be bad circulation but, hey, I just chose the wrong parents.
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Kenan
The seated calf raise, (which I do at home with dumbells on my knees while sitting on the corner of my bed or chair, builds huge soleus muscles, thickening both the calves and the lower leg, which is why I reduced working the soleus and concentrate on gastrocs nearly 80 percent of the times. I am calve-gifted, whats taken from my biceps is down there in my calves. :/
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The seated calf raise, (which I do at home with dumbells on my knees while sitting on the corner of my bed or chair, builds huge soleus muscles, thickening both the calves and the lower leg, which is why I reduced working the soleus and concentrate on gastrocs nearly 80 percent of the times. I am calve-gifted, whats taken from my biceps is down there in my calves. :/
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John
I hate to say this but I-ve been blessed with good calves; thickness, symmetry, length and strength. A young kid stoped me in the gym and asked, -hey man, what do you do to work out your calves? -. I chuckled and said -you really want to know? Nothing. - He said, -I knew it! - And started laughing with me. I wish all of you the best of luck building those calves!
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I hate to say this but I-ve been blessed with good calves; thickness, symmetry, length and strength. A young kid stoped me in the gym and asked, -hey man, what do you do to work out your calves? -. I chuckled and said -you really want to know? Nothing. - He said, -I knew it! - And started laughing with me. I wish all of you the best of luck building those calves!
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