Building Calf Muscle - How To Make Your Calves Grow

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Building Calf Muscle
How To Make Your Calves Grow So your calves haven't been responding to your training as good as you were expecting. There are many reasons for poor calf development. Are you familiar with these reasons? You're bending your knees during straight-leg exercises, like donkey calf raises or calf raises on leg press machine. When you bent your knees you're tranfering your work load to the quads and glutes. You're not stretching enough because you?re using short and bouncy movements. You?re not using enough weight. You're not using different exercises for calves. You give up too soon. Let your calves burn and enjoy it! How can you make your calves to grow?
Reduce your lifting speed. What's the hurry? Try taking 10 seconds to complete your rep and I think you'll notice the difference!
Pause in the bottom position. If you're doing higher reps, the shorter the pause should be. Let's say you're doing six to eight reps, you may pause approx. four seconds at the bottom. And then you?re doing 30 - 50 reps, you may pause approx. one second at the bottom.
Your calves respond differently to different exercises. If you're doing seated calf raises you're using slow-twitch muscle fibers. That means you should do higher reps. And when you're doing donkey calf raises you're using fast-twitch muscle fibers. That means you should do lower reps.
Take off your training shoes! If you train with your bare feet you'll get a greater range of motion.
Try using single-leg calf raises.
Use enough weight to ensure good stretch. The standing calf machine is great for ensuring that your calves stretch.
Use different exercises to train all the muscles in your lower legs.
Calves Sharp as Roger Steward's and big as Mike Matarazzo's. That's the way I want 'em! Muscle Mass Magazine | Store | Articles | Tips | Exercises | Terms | Reviews | Links | Contact Click Here To For Your FREE Muscle Building Magazine Subscription Disclaimer: The information presented is intended to be used for educational purposes only. The statements made have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (U.S.). This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition or disease. Please consult with your own physician or health care practitioner regarding any suggestions and recommendations made.