my calves have been hurting like crazy since doing these this tuesday.thought it was muscle aches, especially as it only started hurting the next morning, but it hasn't been getting better, so I probably fucked up my tendons?I was going all the way down past the point when my feet were standing at 180°, so that might have been the mistake?
>>76916346Did you warm up with little to no weight? Did you do it barefoot or with shoes? If not then yeah you probably fucked up.
>>76916356Warmed up with 25kg then went to 45kg and wore whoes
Just doms. More protein.
>>76916367Deep stretches can have similar effects of DOMS. This is what happened. I assume you are very new to this particular movement so your calf muscles and tendons are not used to this much stretch, especially under load.Use general recovery techniques. It's just going to take longer as this is a more severe case and tendons just take longer.
>>76916378>>76916367But also yeah, like fpbp typed, you probably should've eased into it more. No added weight, more reps than you're used to for warmup.Don't bother even attempting it until you've recovered though.
>>76916367Should have just done body weight ones with high reps and controlled descent to learn the movement pattern and warm up your tendons, doing it over 2-3 sessions and then start slowly adding weight (2.5 kg's each time) You can also progress with single leg ones with bodyweight. This I would do when you've recovered.
you need gastrocnemius
>>76916346>so that might have been the mistake?that didn't help - it's dangerous & stupid stretching, with fully extended knee gastrocnemius is poked by knee joint - picture, it's a frame from wikipedia gif however exact same thing happens if u don't go with heels below toes/midfootthe problem is that u're extending the knee against resistance and gastrocnemius does THE OPPOSITE - bends the knee lie on the side, hook rubber band on heel of lower leg and press band with toes as it leaves heel, band is hooked at low anchor point, try to extend knee as far as it goes in this alignment by moving yourself away from anchor point (still on the floor on your side) as u're being pulled by foot, brace knee on the floor and bend knee and ankle at the same time into this rubber band resistance >what a wonky setup rubber band tied on rail of sort and some space, i am able to switch legs without using hands when i do it, there is nothing complicated about it > i don't want gastrocnemius just soleus i will do seated calf raisesok, suit yourself>i don't want gastroc i just want soleus - standing calf raises for me soleus won't work cause it's co-joined with gastroc at achilles tendon and gastroc is compromised by knee joint poking at it - this will result in shit contraction, instability, muscles sputtering - no bueno for hypertrphy >i will do standing calf raises with bent knee thentried it for a while and invariably fried quad, rectus femoris to be specific - it doesn't work calf, it's mostly RF
>>76916441>lie on the side, hook rubber band on heel of lower leg and press band with toes as it leaves heel, band is hooked at low anchor point, try to extend knee as far as it goes in this alignment by moving yourself away from anchor point (still on the floor on your side) as u're being pulled by foot, brace knee on the floor and bend knee and ankle at the same time into this rubber band resistancei started out with heelhooks borrowed from climbers https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NfwtDIscQm8after observing cliber physiques, dude in the middle is magnus mitboe, most of his life never over 70 kilos, he hangs off heel a lot - and then refined it to this gastrocnemius curl of mine :D
>>76916346It's been a couple of days you fucking vagina
>>76916346>doing theseWhy tho?
>>76916443>>lie on the side, hook rubber band on heel of lower leg and press band with toes as it leaves heel, band is hooked at low anchor point, try to extend knee as far as it goes in this alignment by moving yourself away from anchor point (still on the floor on your side) as u're being pulled by foot, brace knee on the floor and bend knee and ankle at the same time into this rubber band resistance>and then refined it to this gastrocnemius curl of mine :Dsee how calves flex in hamstring curl? u just need load on the tip of your foot also and u obviously don't want the pad on achilles, hence rubber band on heel >>76916378>Deep stretches can have similar effects of DOMS.yeah - the muscle is damaged cause u're tugging on it lke an imbecile >>76916382no it's just bad motion - knee pokes at gastroc when knee is extended, i have done 100+ sets of unilateral calf raises to "muscular failure" and got nothing out of it - it hurts in the back of the knee immediately after, no bueno reeal doms on gastrocnemius are right smack where the bulk of muscle is - almost halfway down the calf >>76916401nope, it's a bad motion, entirely wrong load on knee and inherently damaging to gastrocnemius, cause bones are poking at it and it tries to work but can't really
Calves have an exceptionally strong tendons. It's almost unrealistic to damage then. But remember the first time you did biceps curls. It wasn't the muscle that hurt, it was tebdons that never before had any experience with such load. That's normal. That's how tendons grow and get stronger. It takes 2 weeks for tendons to recover, so it will last for a while. But you will have way stronger tendons in return.
>>76916592>Calves have an exceptionally strong tendons. It's almost unrealistic to damage then. But remember the first time you did biceps curls. It wasn't the muscle that hurt, it was tebdons that never before had any experience with such load. That's normal. That's how tendons grow and get stronger. It takes 2 weeks for tendons to recover, so it will last for a while. But you will have way stronger tendons in return.except in both cases u're just fucking up muscle and tendons and get zero growth :D >>76916458>>76916443>>76916441calves and knee bones obstructing gastroc explained biceps: >>76913236>>biceps is still not there - turns out u never had biceps cause curls do not grow biceps>ha - how funny is dat?>wrap power-band around forearm and pull back and inwards and supinate against this resistance for biceps>this shit - curl - will never grow biceps>brachialis, short head biceps, brachioradialis, front delt and traps holding scapula down as front delt uphold humerus upright - long head of biceps will not grow from just elbow bending, u need supination component for that>>but it grew>there is MORE BICEPS to have, u are completely devoid of long headthe reason curls do fuckall to biceps is no pronating load as i am explaining, but there's more to it: biceps gets trapped under delt upholding humerus vertically in long head shoulder tendon, poked at it's tendon muscle sputters, this instability propagates over all muscles involved but biceps will hurt at elbow because of that >it hurts it's growing no bot, it hurts cause u just fucked it up in both cases :D
>>76916621post body bro, I bet you are DYEL as fuck
