I found this in the article titled “Pop’em Out Muscles”:
“Whatever you do, don’t pair the seated calf raise with the reverse curl mentioned above. Research indicates that high-intensity elbow flexion decreases blood flow to the calves and may hamper performance (Kagaya et al., 1996).”
Is there any other evidence to back this up? It says that high intensity elbow flexion may hamper performance for the calves, but what if the calves are trained prior to the biceps work? Would that that work in reverse? (hamper biceps performance).