How to Get Bigger Calves (WITH BAD CALF GENETICS)
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Date: 2022-04-22
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Jeremiah
When we look at sports and athletes that have particularly large calves, I personally don't feel its because of the training they do.
Running, cutting, changing direction, high level quick tension.
I honestly feel people who have good calves just accelerate in these sports.
If you do cycling, you will grow some bigger legs yes.
But to even have a chance of going pro, you have to be born with leg genetics.
It's not a matter of we see a group of people with a trait we like, so we can copy what they do and get the same.
Calves are just odd, the best jumpers I've seen have had terrible calves. Some of the best sprinters, bad or decent at best.
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When we look at sports and athletes that have particularly large calves, I personally don't feel its because of the training they do.
Running, cutting, changing direction, high level quick tension.
I honestly feel people who have good calves just accelerate in these sports.
If you do cycling, you will grow some bigger legs yes.
But to even have a chance of going pro, you have to be born with leg genetics.
It's not a matter of we see a group of people with a trait we like, so we can copy what they do and get the same.
Calves are just odd, the best jumpers I've seen have had terrible calves. Some of the best sprinters, bad or decent at best.
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James
Tbh guys ill be honest, the bad genetics thing everyone keeps saying is NOT TRUE, at a young age I had chicken legs (11 years old) but I wanted to be able to jumpe higher for basketball so i started to do 300 calf raises when I woke up, 300 mid day and 300 before bed every day for 2 years and at the age of 14 I had enormous and muscular calves and waz the highest jumper in my district. to this day still I have huge and muscular calves so saying its -Bad Genetics- is not true its all about work ethic tbh.
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Tbh guys ill be honest, the bad genetics thing everyone keeps saying is NOT TRUE, at a young age I had chicken legs (11 years old) but I wanted to be able to jumpe higher for basketball so i started to do 300 calf raises when I woke up, 300 mid day and 300 before bed every day for 2 years and at the age of 14 I had enormous and muscular calves and waz the highest jumper in my district. to this day still I have huge and muscular calves so saying its -Bad Genetics- is not true its all about work ethic tbh.
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Paul
Always struggled with my calves - one leg calve raises on stairs / holding dumbbells have over the years shown some results (however I have always hit a wall / plateau / had pain in the feet/tendons) - these exercises however, force massive tension onto the calves - easily seen additional gains using this method - this will work the hamstrings too (no bad thing if your quad dominant) - can see a marked difference after a month of so using this method
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Always struggled with my calves - one leg calve raises on stairs / holding dumbbells have over the years shown some results (however I have always hit a wall / plateau / had pain in the feet/tendons) - these exercises however, force massive tension onto the calves - easily seen additional gains using this method - this will work the hamstrings too (no bad thing if your quad dominant) - can see a marked difference after a month of so using this method
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john
This didn't work at all. I tried doing this workout several times and I think I got the form down very well however when I finished my calves did not feel like I worked them out at all and now i keep getting minor pain around my knee area specifically on my upper shins and I used a gym mat so that's not the issue. Not sure why it's not working for me. I sure do sweat a lot while doing this though, anyone else experience this?
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This didn't work at all. I tried doing this workout several times and I think I got the form down very well however when I finished my calves did not feel like I worked them out at all and now i keep getting minor pain around my knee area specifically on my upper shins and I used a gym mat so that's not the issue. Not sure why it's not working for me. I sure do sweat a lot while doing this though, anyone else experience this?
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TienSenju
Bad calves genetics makes it hard to show off your hard work because no matter how impressive you are, theres always that one guy that says -Oh I bet he has skinny legs- And it sucks because theyre partially right. Quads and hams are nothing to train and grow very quickly, calves take so goddamn long to build though, despite being a relatively smaller and easier muscle to isolate. It suckssss
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Bad calves genetics makes it hard to show off your hard work because no matter how impressive you are, theres always that one guy that says -Oh I bet he has skinny legs- And it sucks because theyre partially right. Quads and hams are nothing to train and grow very quickly, calves take so goddamn long to build though, despite being a relatively smaller and easier muscle to isolate. It suckssss
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Man
If you don-t wanna workout but you wanna get rid of small calves, you can just buy some shoes which make you walk forefoot, when you walk with normal shoes you walk on heel of foot so the pressure goes to knees (which can cause injuries and future knees pain) but with flexible shoes you walk on forefoot so the pressure goes to calves, and the calves then adapt for that through hypertrophy.
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If you don-t wanna workout but you wanna get rid of small calves, you can just buy some shoes which make you walk forefoot, when you walk with normal shoes you walk on heel of foot so the pressure goes to knees (which can cause injuries and future knees pain) but with flexible shoes you walk on forefoot so the pressure goes to calves, and the calves then adapt for that through hypertrophy.
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Freedom
Awesome. My calves are very tiny. A bit genetics, but no excuses really. I just never really preferred to train them. You reap what you sow.
I'm doing this exercise at home now. I don't have that bench or anything similar in my room. I tried to do it with a resistance band but I couldn't keep the balance well. Any suggestion?
BTW what's the name of this calves exercise?
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Awesome. My calves are very tiny. A bit genetics, but no excuses really. I just never really preferred to train them. You reap what you sow.
I'm doing this exercise at home now. I don't have that bench or anything similar in my room. I tried to do it with a resistance band but I couldn't keep the balance well. Any suggestion?
BTW what's the name of this calves exercise?
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NikoKarma
Getting a crazy Charlie Horse from Glute Ham Raise / Nordic Curls on the last few reps. This exercise scares the crap out of me since it's targeting the Charlie Horse zone in my calf. I'd love to see a progression to this or some hints about plantar flexion/dorsiflexion and what the best way to approach this and avoid the Charlie Horse or cure it for more reps.
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Getting a crazy Charlie Horse from Glute Ham Raise / Nordic Curls on the last few reps. This exercise scares the crap out of me since it's targeting the Charlie Horse zone in my calf. I'd love to see a progression to this or some hints about plantar flexion/dorsiflexion and what the best way to approach this and avoid the Charlie Horse or cure it for more reps.
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Mike
For me personally I found that doing Nordic hamstring curls and actually fighting hard on the way down really jacks up my calfs, I would say I have pretty good calf genetics, but I would always cramp when I first started doing them I definitely increased strength in my WHOLE posterior chain doing them, working my way up to doing one with no hands
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For me personally I found that doing Nordic hamstring curls and actually fighting hard on the way down really jacks up my calfs, I would say I have pretty good calf genetics, but I would always cramp when I first started doing them I definitely increased strength in my WHOLE posterior chain doing them, working my way up to doing one with no hands
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Jason
Tried it today. I have had plantar fasciitis and some knee issues due to extreme calf tension (I stretch, I massage, it's a big problem, so I don't do weighted calf raised any more. I generally like my bodyweight-related exercises best, for results, so this is another of those. Hopefully good outcome!
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Tried it today. I have had plantar fasciitis and some knee issues due to extreme calf tension (I stretch, I massage, it's a big problem, so I don't do weighted calf raised any more. I generally like my bodyweight-related exercises best, for results, so this is another of those. Hopefully good outcome!
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