Ways to Build the Calves Even with Poor Genetics
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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Light weight, lot of reps, multiple times a week FULL RANGE OF MOTION
Yes and do them everyday! Forearms, delts, and calves recover REALLY fast.
Best way to grow calves is to be overweight growing up and then cutting down
2000% people who were obese always have massive calves
Was gonna comment this
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I was gonna scroll past this until I looked down and my Calves were giving me the side eye.
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and Asians skipping this video like nothing 🤣
The traps, neck and shoulder muscles have the highest no. of testosterone and androgen receptors and as you go down the calves have the least.
Not exactly. But I've never seen a transformation with any guy going from puny calves to huge calves. Have you? Only testimonials from guys that basically just grew up.
@@krane15 As your weight increases your calves get massive on their own because of standing on your increased body weight and walking on it too
The truth is walking a lot, climbing stairs, treking mountains or incline walk or farmer walk all built solid and massive calves
Even If you focus on the calf raises 3 times a week you will still get great results
I have grown 4 testicle on the back of my calves in 6 months already
@@krane15 mine grew noticeably in a year.
@@krane15 Mine have gone from 13 to 16 in 2 years. Full range of motion, moderate to light weight, high frequency, high intensity, and feeder sets. My calves still aren’t impressive but the progress i’ve made so far is amazing.
@@imhopelesslyaddictedtofent4266 They grew completely from training, or you simply grew up? These are the same exaggerated stories guys claim as a transformation. Two totally different thing, that a lot of guys don't understand or just want to embellish.
Reminds me of the middle school one-upmanship back and forth. You might get 2" of muscle with gear in a lifetime. Any more is just fat.
Us skinny guys definitely have our work cut out for us with calves lol. Seems like frequent full ROM sets and eating like a horse are the only options to see any gains.
I use to try my best to hit calves at the gym but I never really saw much progress. I'm sure I neglected them in comparison to my other major body parts though. But I eventually really got into the hobby of backcountry backpacking up steep mountains and my calves grew so damn big.
doing slow jogs at high incline for about 1-2 miles on leg days before the workout will make the legs grow like tree trunks, people neglect a lot of their leg muscle potential by ignoring the slow twitch.
I have big calves from hiking 1-2 times a week and genetics
You have big calves from genetics. End of story.
@@krane15 before I started to work out at all, I hit 25k steps every single day for months (now years) at a fast pace with a long stride and had massive growth. Now that im working out, my calves are still the strongest bodypart by miles. Unless of course youre gonna make the argument that 3-4 hours of covering 20km daily has nothing to do with calves and calves are my only bodypart that miraculously has "good" genetics.
Just go take a hike.
@@johncole4963 I've going to say I've heard people claim that all my life but never seen it. NEVER.
The thing is. Calves are used to high intensity and high volume, because they are supposed to carry almost the whole bodyweight. So training them 3times a week with high rep range and high weights with full range of motion and training to failure or close to failure is a thing that will help develop calves.
With calves probably more than any other muscle, it's absolutely body composition. Similar to biceps. I'm 6"2, long arms, legs, lanky, probably ectomorph. For me to even put fat on around my calves let alone muscle I'd have to be 30 kilos over my fighting weight for any noticeable increase in size.
Genetics makes small percentage compare to hard work, i was wery skinni as a teenager but my calves where massive, i was a good long distance runner, but my running style was different, i used my forefoot and never let my heel touch the ground. I am 6'3" male 200 lbs calves size 20,45 inces
@@arminpeet9796 don't you think you may be the exception to the rule in that respect. I used to run with sprinters form aswell even over longer distances but i found the exact opposite. Look at Anthony joshua, tyson fury. Most heavyweight boxers over 6ft run long distances but could easily be accused of skipping leg day
I have good calf genetics…. But listen, the best exercise IMO is smith machine barbell calf raises on a box… TRUST ME. And use the box to get a deeper calve raise.
this is bullshit. Calves are 90% genetic. There are bodybuilders on shit loads of gear who still can;t grow their calves, while there are skinny guys and girls who have never trained their calves directly who have massive calves.
You rarely see people who don;t train with other bigger muscles like chest or arms, but calves is different.
Calves respond to high volume. Do them multiple times a day every day.
very smart, next make sure you dont go over 3 hours a sleep each night so you can do more calves workouts.
Disappointing to not see the Achilles tendon mentioned. This unique tendon and body weight are the main factors.
mountain hiking or any hike with a decent incline. my calves have exploded from doing it semi-regularly. it's also wonderful for your mental health
have you seen the calves of a ballet dancer?
I would like to know what study Sal is referring to when he says that they are not more resistant to growing. Because the question is if there are people who do not have difficulty to grow muscles except for their calves because they have high calves, not if in average people can grow it. I mean there are a lot more people who get big calves by not training them and by simply walking, then there are people with biceps that are not training them for example.
I love the fact that they brought up basketball & jump rope and stuff because I lift and play a lot of ball and when I lift at a gym people ask me about my calves. I wish they would ask about other muscles but I'm not that developed in the upper body yet lol. People in the comments are saying "genetics," but like every basketball player I know has at least decent looking calves. Genetics probably play a role, but getting that constant tension from plantar flexion, dorsi flexion, ankle inversion eversion pronation supination from high velocity movements at a high volume will do it.
how does 1 workout all these things master
@@messithegoat4111 Either go play a sport involving high volume hard changes of direction, or set up some agility drills and low level plyometrics for the ankle. And keep doing your calf raises and toe raises in the gym.
Bro I play a lot of sports but my calves are still small. Maybe it’s because i’m low weight (60kg)?
Most people lack the ankle mobility for a full ROM on calf raises and wonder why they’re shit.
Do the mobility work to get an inch lower, and see how much better it gets for you.
Add 5x20 calf raises, do some heavy Yolk walks, and do some full incline treadmill for cardio days.
Yolk walks? That's a lot of eggs
I think it's because there are so few options with calves. There are dozens of exercises and variations for biceps, shoulders, chest, etc, but very few for calves.
5x5 on Calves 🤔never thought about that
Its 90% genetic, and nothing anyone can say or anything you do will change that. The biggest most dense calves I've ever seen weren't on bodybuilders, they were on people that didn't train or workout at all.
Usually have underdeveloped legs on the whole besides the calf…. Usually walk on their toes and are usually obese at some point….you can always tell when someone was much bigger…huge calves to support all that weight for years
I want to disagree. I think most people or at least a good portion of people have the genetics to back good calves.
Most obese people have great calves.
And I have never met anyone who actively works their calves.
I think its just a real challenge to grow impressive looking calves.
Ok but, how much of that size is still fat? It's like people who get a bariatric surgery... They have big arms indeed, but mostly fat and saggy skin.
Genetics play a major roll on everything, but also people use "genetics" as a excuse for poorly results due to a poorly way of train.
You can still try to reach your genetic potential though.
Keep trapped in ur limited mindset while I consistently train and grow inches
Been a lifter for 40 years. About 2 years ago I bought an old 1980s donkey calf machine with 500 lbs and a bar to add weight. I do slow movements with full range of motion. My one working set has me screaming with pain and my calves are pumped like never before. They just feel thicker for days and then I’ll punish them again. For me, I never got any growth with volume training on calves. Slow intensity has just worked better for me and my calves used to be nonexistent.
I'll try it. 👍
1:49 "Only heels on the weekend" these guys are damn hilarious!
I found running really helped bring up my calves.
and jump roping 👍
only if you have good genetics. I used to do boxing (so jump roping 4-5 times a week) + running half marathons and marathons and I really had small calves. Since I stopped running and focus on doing more sets they got bigger.
Just found you guys and subscribed. Partly because I enjoyed the content. Partly because I saw that Triple Rectifier chilling in the back.
1000 kicks a day... Look at the Thai warriors calf's... The best in the game!
''Only heels on the weekends''
How valuable is "20 reps breathing squats program" for muscle growth? Any thoughts on pullovers for expand the rib cage?
How have I only just now discovered this channe? Love your content, I feel like this subject space/environment needed a chill, funny, well informed show just like this. Keep up the good work ill be sharing 👍
Thanks for the reminder. I meant to do calves after deadlifting since a heavy bar should be good for it. I'm on a break from deadlifting rn. I actually have big calves. I guess it's because I've always been short to average height and I'm female so I'm always on my tip toes to get stuff down from the top shelves.
Great video
Skipping rope and old skool amateur boxing
False.
Well said
Thanks
If you're not hiking or walking along with calf exercises then you're wasting time with your calves. Can you fit the intensity of over 20 miles of walking/day into 4 sets of calf raises? Calves are not meant to tire out..