Calve muscles

[Howitzer]

raebomb said:

try doing them single-legged with a weight in one hand and use the other hand to hold onto something to steady yourself, if done right you'll knwo all about it the next morning

Or do 180 kilo dips and raises till exhaustion, wait 5 minutes and then graciously fall down the stairs at your local gym

Dave!

[anonymous-user]

arryb said:

I appear to have massive calves - don't know where they've come from but I played lots of tennis when I was younger and still do, do lots of cycling and a bit of running.......

Thats probably where they have come from??

[Lefty Guns]

I'm going to a wedding in august and don't want my skinny calves on show below my kilt!

Thanks for all the tips chaps

[Dupont666]

Do 150kg (highest setting) calf raises on the machine... rinse and repeat a set of 12 x 3 and then walk off like bambi, your calves wont know what hit them.... I did that and 250kg quad presses as well as 15mins of 1 min jog 30secs sprint and calf muscles came up a treat....

Tho im a hockey player and needed it to do well at my sport.

Only problem I had was sometimes i need to buy a 36" waist jeans (im 32-34") as the smaller sizes looked skin tight on me and Im only 5' 9/10" ish...

[DamoLLb]

NoelWatson said:

Didn't Ahnold deliberately used to wear cut off trousers so that people laughed at his calves?

Alot of his early photos had him pictured standing knee high in water as his calves weren't upto scatch. He believed that the perect ratio should be 1:1 with your biceps.

[posterboy]

My goal

[NoelWatson]

posterboy said:

My goal

With quads like Platz?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgvW0pdR9Oc&fea...

[posterboy]

Mike Matarrazo
Cycling, skipping and running (on your toes) are the best

[Cara Van Man]

Muntu said:

"calve muscles"

I half expected to open the thread and find a newspaper linky to some mutation experiment between baby cows and shellfish.

<disappointed>

[mechsympathy]

posterboy said:

My goal

You want your legs to look like turkey drumsticks??

[liz86]

I strenghten mine doing raises onto my toes. Standing with your heels hanging over a wooded block helps with increasing the contaction.
L

[posterboy]

mechsympathy said:

posterboy said:

My goal

You want your legs to look like turkey drumsticks??

Yeh the real woman love it

[Lefty Guns]

Right, 15 minutes of skipping, 2 minute break the 3 sets of 20 of these:

Howitzer said:

Calf raises.

Balls of your feet on a step, slowly drop as far as you can, then slowly raise as far as you can, so sets of 12 and then repeat to fade.

Doing them properly has them working very hard indeed.

Dave!

And I'm fked. Didn't realise just how unfit I am!

Should I be doing this every day?

Cheers
iain

[RobDickinson]

My calv muscles have noticably increased since I stared mountainbiking, helped a ton with fitness too.

[Dupont666]

swerni said:

A large proportion of it is down to genetics. Plus the fact being 6'5" you will be very long limbed so it will be difficult to make the muscles appear big.

wear long socks with your kilt

HTH

Are you saying your a skinny rake of a man that is tall??

[Dupont666]

swerni said:

Dupont666 said:

swerni said:

A large proportion of it is down to genetics. Plus the fact being 6'5" you will be very long limbed so it will be difficult to make the muscles appear big.

wear long socks with your kilt

HTH

Are you saying your a skinny rake of a man that is tall??

compared to when I was 2 1/2 stone heaver and still playing rugby, yes

make up for it with beers at DD

[littleandy0410]

Martial Arts Man said:

Skip, every day for as long as you can.

Lefty Guns said:

Thanks for the skipping tip, I'll get a rope at lunchtime!

Oh,that sort of skipping!

I thought you meant:

[littleandy0410]

They didn't join in then?

[Lefty Guns]

Well after a month of spending half an hour to an hour every night of running about with the dog and 60 calf lifts every other night I can report that:

They don't look any bigger
They are, however, more defined and harder
I can do more with less pain
I can run faster, for longer.

I'll keep it going...

[M400 NBL]

Lefty Guns said:

Well after a month of spending half an hour to an hour every night of running about with the dog and 60 calf lifts every other night I can report that:They don't look any biggerThey are, however, more defined and harderI can do more with less pain I can run faster, for longer.I'll keep it going...

You,ve replaced fat with muscle, well done. Muscles usually respond best if you mix it up and don't let them get used to a routine. Have you tried donkey raises Someone sits on your lower back whist you are bent over at 90 degrees, and you do your normal calf raises. Plenty of reps and light weight won't get them big for your wedding, only cut. Or carry on doing the same exercises but sometimes much slower or only half the rep so that there's no rest between reps.