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Originally Posted by guns01

something i learned that made a hell of a difference for me was this and this is how it was explained to me. so when we walk we pretty much work our calves like crazy. so you go from neutral to contraction with every step. so that's the rom that the calf is familiar with. so where they arent worked that much is from a full stretch to neutral. so you can focus entirely on that part of the movement from full stretch to neutral or do your full range and then hammer the bottom half. all kinds of ways to put it into your training but you have to hammer that part of the movement really hard. if you do decide to toss it in and give it a go start off easy or you wont be able to walk.

i took one of my friends that i train with on occasion that is tall and pretty lanky but bone peeled. his calves are pretty pathetic to be honest. i put 2in on his calves in about 3 months just by putting focus on that rom. made a huge difference

Definitely gonna try this. Calves are by far my worst body part. I've tried training them so many different ways and I can get them to grow a little, but nothing spectacular. A buddy of mine rarely ever trains his and they look like something on the olympia stage. Drives me crazy.

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Originally Posted by Yohimbe

Definitely gonna try this. Calves are by far my worst body part. I've tried training them so many different ways and I can get them to grow a little, but nothing spectacular. A buddy of mine rarely ever trains his and they look like something on the olympia stage. Drives me crazy.

like i noted above man, dont go ham on this technique the first time because it will cripple you. your calves arent accustomed to working in that range of motion at all and it kills them. once you have done it and can go ham then add in some long ass loaded stretches after finishing up your reps. like it the 8-20sec range. it is brutal haha. a good one is to hammer out as many full range reps as you can to failure then do the from stretch to neutral to failure and then finish in the stretch as long as you can tolerate. that will blow them up