I just can’t get my quads to grow, and can’t stop my calves from growing. I think my calf/quad ratio is just weird. My leg workouts consist of squats and leg extensions, and I do deadlifts on back day. Anyone else have the same problems? (will post picture after I get my camera back)
Is that seriously all you do? 3 exercises per week? One of which (deadlifts) that aren’t always that good for leg growth?
How bout doing a real leg work out?
Leg extensions for pre exhaust
Front squats
Narrow hack squats
Lunges
Standing leg curls
Seated leg curl
Glute Ham raise, etc
To be fair, you don’t have to have all the exercises in the world to have a good leg workout. Hell, my worst leg day that I can remember lately was doing RDL’s and Front Squats following DC training. That being said, OP what are you doing for your legs in terms of set/rep scheme. How’s your form on the exercises you do do?
Yeah, 18" calves to 22" upper legs is pretty whacked out in my opinion. The calf size is awesome, but that upper leg is fairly weak. Dont forget that quads arent the only thing that make up your upper leg though, you have hammies too. All the exercises Bonez mentioned should help you out.
You might add Romaninan DLs and good mornings to that list, as well as doing elevated-heel front squats to really hit the quads. Make sure youre getting good depth on all your squat variations too. My legs didnt go anywhere until I worked on that.
I think we should all reserve further comments until we’ve seen pics of said anomaly.
Give it time, find the right exercises for your quads and make sure you keep getting stronger on all of them…
Quads usually respond well to higher volume (whether that be a grinding widowmaker set together with a heavier one, or many sets of medium reps or multiple exercises or whatever… Just keep your knee health in mind and don’t go full-rom hack machine, full-rom leg extension and short lunges all in one session).
[quote]Betzy wrote:
I just can’t get my quads to grow, and can’t stop my calves from growing. I think my calf/quad ratio is just weird. My leg workouts consist of squats and leg extensions, and I do deadlifts on back day. Anyone else have the same problems? (will post picture after I get my camera back)[/quote]
It’s not this bad is it?? LOL…
I do five sets of around 10 rep squats, 1-2 reps short of failure, four sets of leg extensions in the 8-10 rep range, deadlifts are mostly romanian deadlifts because it feels more comfortable to me. Used to do standing calf raises but I took them out (obvious reason). I’ve been doing high intensity for the last 2 months, but next week I’m switching to a high volume leg training, as I can see it has far more benefits then high intensity for legs. Will post picture today
You have the same problem with your traps compared to your delts too.
I’d follow John Roman’s specializing article for your legs. NO calves!
That ratio is really bad, weird. I wouldn’t even take my pant off to have sex.
AND, you should have never let it get this out of hand! Better get with it, son.
Waits for the pictures
[quote]BRUCELEEWANNABE wrote:
I’d follow John Roman’s specializing article for your legs. NO calves!
That ratio is really bad, weird. I wouldn’t even take my pant off to have sex.
AND, you should have never let it get this out of hand! Better get with it, son.[/quote]
Why tell this guy exactly what exercises to AVOID when you haven;t seen any pictures of these legs?
If the internet hasn’t taught you yet that many people seem to have a very skewed personal image of themselves, what is it going to take?
Someone with 22" quads hasn’t been doing jack shit for legs regardless of what they write. They may have gotten under a barbell for squats, but there is no way “high intensity” has ever been a factor…that or they just started lifting less than 6 months previous.
Waiting for this picture…
Pictures 
Right calf:
Left calf:
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/7126/leftcalf.jpg
Quads:
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/9720/quads.jpg
I hope I posted the pics right
My question is where exactly on your thighs are you measuring?
Yea your quads are miserable. Start training them seriously.
I’m measuring at midpoint, at it’s biggest part
dont quit your day job
Calves arent bad though