Calves
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Let's discuss about training calves. This is a good article on how to train calves and the science behind it :
> http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/muscle-gain/training-the-calves
However, I personally stopped training them at all. The reasons :
> Huge part of having big calves are genetics and there is little room to growing them
> You have to put all of work in, but you only get little results out of it
> The time into the gym training could be spen t on working more important weak points that could actually help you with your main lifts
> Extra demands on CNS due to big weights being used
> Most people have tight calves, resulting in a lot of knee and foot problems and training them will probably make them even tighter
> I have a tendency to developing plantar fasciitis and training calves seems to exacerbate the condition
Has anybody got impressive results from training calves while having average genetics?
I have pretty small calves with high insertions.
But I've had a bit of a revelation lately that I haven't seen anyone talk about.
Tendons in muscle have a bit of an elastic capability in them that absorb energy from eccentric movements and turn it into a concentric movement.
The calves have the thickest tendon in the body, and in some people like myself the tendon is also long, making it very elastic.
So the way I see it, is calves should be trained primarily by doing slow eccentrics with paused reps at the bottom in order to get rid of the stretch-reflex caused by the tendon. This way it's 100% of the muscle doing the work.
>>34998753
> TFW using genetics as an excuse for shitty calves
See why fat guys gone swole have mega calves?
Literally bulk up hard/wear a weighted bodysuit and run tiptoe on an incline/up a hill to train your calves
>>34998836
100% correct. Slow ass eccentric reps with a deep 10+ sec stretch on the bottom will rip them up.
>>34998753
My understanding is that, since your calves are there, in part, to stabilize your ankles, farmer's walks and balancing exercises are helpful.
>>34998753
Forefoot/midfoot strike while running medium distances (3-5 miles) once or twice a week, calves gains everywhere. Specifically training calves never made a different for me. Upping my running frequency made them more vascular and larger within a month.
>>34999763
my knees..
>>34999786
ill rip u up, no homo of course
:^)
>>34998753
The reason /fit/ has small calves is because nobody does legit cardio
>>35002080
Nigga running ain't going to do shit to your knees unless you're an obeast and then you couldn't even anyway
Adding 10kg+ while running isn't such a bad thing, boo hiss cardio,"muh knees", the military wear suits that weigh a fuckton and they still run like all hell so start being a man
>>34999786
Any decent proof of this working well? The logic seems sound enough tho. I have good size calfs naturally but I'd like more.
>>34999763
I think thats because very few fat guys have small base frames, so even if they were never fat they would have had better calves than most.
>>35002988
Nah, its all about proportion, a small guy with good calves proportionate to his size will always look better than a tall guy with big calves but no muscle tone.
