Calves

Thought someone might appreciate this like me.
I have huge issues with lagging calves they just wont grow.
So i started this method a week ago and my calves are killing me.
when im at home and i dont go to the gym i do a 100 bodyweight calf raises when im at gym i do standing or seated 100 calve raises with a 20kg weight. Will see in a few months if i get results. I got my info from here if you up for a read

www.t-nation.com/training/answer-for-massive-calves

Nice, thanks Mince.

I found there are mainly two reason people find it difficult to grow calves.

1. Isolating the muscle.

It can be difficult isolating the calve muscle when training it. You need to feel the burn and make sure that you do slow negative reps. You also need to go down all the way and then back up all the way in order to work the entire muscle. Another aspect is working the whole muscle. Depending on foot placement (feet pointing out, feet straight or feet pointing in) you can work different areas. Doing one leg at a time also helps as you tend to favour the stronger leg when doing calves.

2. Doing enough sets

Another major mistake people make is not training the muscle enough. When you generally ask people how much time they spend on biceps they'll say about 30 to 45 minutes. Ranging from 3 to 4 sets. But when asked how much time they spend on calves it's fat less. Maybe 2 or 3 exercises after doing upper legs. This is not nearly enough considering that your biceps are smaller than your calves (well meant to be at least, haha). Doing only 2 or 3 sets is not going to give you the results that you want. Training legs is hard enough as it is so I do my legs on Wednesday and do my calves separately on a Friday.

Hope this helps,

If all else fails, get implants.

Ben Pakulski on how to build massive calves:

Thanks Guys, will definately try this, since I do struggle with calves alot

Muscleaddict wrote: Ben Pakulski on how to build massive calves:

Ben really knows his shit.

Yep and he is brilliant at explaining the best way to activate each muscle for maximum hypertrophy. He did his honours in kinesiology which explains his scientific approach to training.

Ye I watched one of his clips on Trap training. Helped me a lot with not being able to do shrugs (which he said are useless) at the moment

I watched his calve excercises on youtube its almost the same principal as that write up.
His calves are huge tho wont mind having calves like him.

Had to hit Calves quickly after chest on Friday night. Thought I'd try that workout...wow..eina!

Been struggling to walk all weekend.

Heritage wrote: Had to hit Calves quickly after chest on Friday night. Thought I'd try that workout...wow..eina!

Been struggling to walk all weekend.

lol, same here.

I have been going 9 days straight now im limping more and more