Most of the time, you only judge a guy’s legs by the size of their calves(usually the only visible portion of the limb). Some guys just have shitty genetics and need to work the shit out of their calves just to get decent growth. I don’t have that problem. 17"+ calves and I only train them once a week.
Having 17" calves and only 15 1/3" arms is pretty shitty, though. My arms need 2x a week direct training to get any(minuscule) amount of growth.
Freaking genetics. I wish genetics didn’t exist.
Yeah man… Fuck calves.
[quote]esk221 wrote:
Yeah man… Fuck calves.[/quote]
Calves are great. What you talkin bout?
to hell with calves. i wish i was a merman ;(
Not mine. They suck shit. At least they’re vascular…
My take from this whole interaction is that polite society has different physique goals than a select few of trainers. Yeah, my arms might suck in comparison to the leg-less wonder doing hammer curls with the 80lbers but the competition I’m striving on participating in isn’t a bodypart contest.
I say, let them train. Let them remain forever this way. Yet again, I wasn’t focusing entirely on the size of the man’s calves but focusing on the entire lower body or lack thereof. It was leg-day today it seems in the “Swole Kingdom”.
1/32 rep leg presses with 12 plates per side were plentiful along with plenty of “No Pains!” and “Lightweights!” Squats were relegated to the smith machine with the same ROM. Leg extension with the entire stack. This required some real orchestrated body english to get going.
Peak contraction was avoided like the plague. I guess such training habits are yielding great results. please note the heavy lather of sarcasm equivalent to the amount of mayo in a Big Mac
[quote]AzCats wrote:
Almost every day? I would suggest treating your calves like any other muscle group and train them once or twice a week(heavy) for better results. No wonder they are small… Give them some time to grow my friend[/quote]
Priceless. Gotta love the Internet.
Ever tried a 2-3 second pause at the bottom (stretched position) for calf raises to fully engage the muscle and take the stretch reflex out of the equation?
[quote]Growing_Boy wrote:
My take from this whole interaction is that polite society has different physique goals than a select few of trainers. Yeah, my arms might suck in comparison to the leg-less wonder doing hammer curls with the 80lbers but the competition I’m striving on participating in isn’t a bodypart contest.
I say, let them train. Let them remain forever this way. Yet again, I wasn’t focusing entirely on the size of the man’s calves but focusing on the entire lower body or lack thereof. It was leg-day today it seems in the “Swole Kingdom”.
1/32 rep leg presses with 12 plates per side were plentiful along with plenty of “No Pains!” and “Lightweights!” Squats were relegated to the smith machine with the same ROM. Leg extension with the entire stack. This required some real orchestrated body english to get going.
Peak contraction was avoided like the plague. I guess such training habits are yielding great results. please note the heavy lather of sarcasm equivalent to the amount of mayo in a Big Mac [/quote]
I hate Big Mac’s.
Carls Jr.? maybe? Double Six Dollah?
Squatting does fucking suck. The leg press gets rid of just about any excuses one may have other than having a bad lower back.
[quote]DanErickson wrote:
Squatting does fucking suck. The leg press gets rid of just about any excuses one may have other than having a bad lower back.[/quote]
Nothing wrong with squatting. Heavy walking DB lunges though, those are the devil.
[quote]BulletproofTiger wrote:
Ever tried a 2-3 second pause at the bottom (stretched position) for calf raises to fully engage the muscle and take the stretch reflex out of the equation?[/quote]
If you think that is good enough, you haven’t tried doing calves dc style. You will probably wimper by rep 7 and wonder if what you’re doing is actually self inflicted torture to the fullest.
Calves are just as important as anyother muscle and actually help alongside your vastus medialis in keeping your knee secure through movements. Some food for thought if you aren’t training your calves as hard as other muscles.
[quote]esk221 wrote:
Yeah man… Fuck calves.[/quote]
sick legs esk size I’m striving for one day one day after some pain and suffering I might achieve.
[quote]Carlitosway wrote:
Calves are just as important as anyother muscle and actually help alongside your vastus medialis in keeping your knee secure through movements. Some food for thought if you aren’t training your calves as hard as other muscles.[/quote]
As long as you got some sick anaconda size biceps sticking out your muscle-t how gives a flying, holy as the pope, fuck?
My legs grow like fungus, a walk up a hill and my legs are pumped, but I can curl all day and my arms feel nothing. I’d love to know what my ancestors were doing all day, probably squatting cows for reps… didn’t they know swole biceps are the measure of a man?
[quote]Carlitosway wrote:
BulletproofTiger wrote:
Ever tried a 2-3 second pause at the bottom (stretched position) for calf raises to fully engage the muscle and take the stretch reflex out of the equation?
If you think that is good enough, you haven’t tried doing calves dc style. You will probably wimper by rep 7 and wonder if what you’re doing is actually self inflicted torture to the fullest.[/quote]
how does dc work for calves? iv just realised mine are tiny,
just one set of 12(ya just 1) on one exercise like leg press ,seated calve raise or standing. I’m alternating every week. What you do is one set of 12 with a good weight. On every rep you explode up pause at the top for however long (me like 2 seconds) and lower the negative real slow at the bottom pause with your calves in the stretched position for about 15-20 seconds.
Do this on every rep, if you picked a good enough weight by rep 7-8 you will want to quit but just trench through it until rep 12.
Your calves will be hurting.