I finished Big Boy Basics last week and I’m going to start The Anti-Bodybuilding Hypertrophy Program. All I need is for someone to give me an alternate exercise that is most suitable to this program. I need an alternate exercise for both the calf raise and the seated calf raise. If you could checkout the program for me and help me out it would be greatly appriciated.
You need to tell people more, like why you can’t do standing or seated calf raises.
I did standing and seated calf raises yesterday in the squat rack using 2 25 pound plates placed on 2 2x4s.
I’d recommend if you don’t have a calf raise to do standing calves 1 leg at a time with a dumbell in the isolateral hand.
Are you injured, don’t have the equipment, or just have huge calves already?
[quote]mertdawg wrote:
You need to tell people more, like why you can’t do standing or seated calf raises.
I did standing and seated calf raises yesterday in the squat rack using 2 25 pound plates placed on 2 2x4s.
I’d recommend if you don’t have a calf raise to do standing calves 1 leg at a time with a dumbell in the isolateral hand.
Are you injured, don’t have the equipment, or just have huge calves already?[/quote]
I don’t have a squat rack. I don’t have a seated calf raise machine.
My equipment
Soloflex dumbbells
Olympic ez-curl bar (18 lbs)
Olympic bench press bar (45 lbs)
Body-Solid Pro-Lat Machine
http://www.fitnessfactory.com/...tion&linkid=16
Tricep Rope
Pro-Grip? Triceps Pressdown Bar
Pro-Grip? Seated Row / Chinning Bar
Pro-Grip? Stirrup Cable Handle
Bench for bench pressing has a leg curl at the end
Body-Solid Heavy - Duty Flat / Incline / Decline Bench
Body-Solid Vertical Knee Raise / Dip / Chin / Push-up Combo
Don’t have a squat rack or anything to do calf raises on. I believe that is all my equipment.
OK, so you have a leg curl attachment-that can easily be used for seated calves. Don’t sit on the bench, but facing the bench from the bottom on a chair, lift it up and put the pads on your knees. Use something for a short 2-3 inch platform. You might lift it off the ground though.
Standing calves. Put the balls of your right foot on a step or plate. Pick up a dumbell in the right hand and do standing calf raises one leg at a time.
What are you going to use for your thighs anyway? If you don’t have a squat rack or power rack, do some form of lunge (maybe dumbells) or dumbell 1-leg squats and some form of deadlifts. Tell me you weren’t going to use leg curls as you antibodybuilding thigh exercise.
How much weight do you have in plates, and what’s the heaviest pair of dumbells you can make?
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