Nobody working out in his garaga should have room for a calf machine.
They have a standing and sitting calf machine in my gym. They’re a waste of space.
The sitting calf machine any sitting calf machine is pretty useless. And I don’t use the standing calf machine (with the padding on top of your shoulders) as it pushes down on my acromions.
I did 1 legged dumbbell calf raises later switched to 2 legged raises using the smith (for lateral support). I’m nearing grip failure and will switch to 1 legged raises in the smith. Using straps in the smith would look stupid imo.
By machine here we’re actually talking about a calf block, not the actual machine. More of a tongue in cheek discussion. I use my smith machine to do both standing and seated raises.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Wreckless wrote:
The sitting calf machine any sitting calf machine is pretty useless.
This just sunk in. What do you mean by this?[/quote]
I thought about this too. Seated calf raises put the focus on the Soleus instead of the Gastroc. Why would you avoid that exercises if you wanted bigger calves?
[quote]Modi wrote:
Tiribulus wrote:
Wreckless wrote:
The sitting calf machine any sitting calf machine is pretty useless.
This just sunk in. What do you mean by this?
I thought about this too. Seated calf raises put the focus on the Soleus instead of the Gastroc. Why would you avoid that exercises if you wanted bigger calves?[/quote]
Ya know, if you wanted a pivoting valf block, that’d be pretty simple to make too, especially if you had a decent shop.
Id probably take a piece of thin wall tube, smash the center of it flat with a hammer and drill a few holes and use carriage bolts to attach it to a board, and then take two pieces of 2x4 laid on edge and put a hole in them with hole cutting bit for the tube to rotate in. Then you could put a crosspiece in the front to keep the whole thing square and you’d have a pivoting block that would probably last forever and hold a million-gillion pounds for less then 20 bucks, and all you had to do was make three wood cuts, cut a tube, and drill a half dozen holes
I’d make one of these just to post pictures, but then I’d probably have to start training calves.