I have been into fitness for over 24 years, and as far back as I can remember, people have been making up cope theories about calves. Most people get really defensive and upset when you point out that calves cannot be grown.
>>77164354they have only their mothers to blame for not feeding them enough growing up
>>77164354Anyone that does any kind of manual labor job like mailman, building site shit, warehouse work has insane tom platz tier calves
>>77164362Cope lies, I have worked as a warehouse drone for years and my calves suck like most people who work there
>>77164358Cope lies, many fatsoes have terrible calves
>>77164373ok but I never met someone who was gifted with childhood obesity that didn't have great calves
>>77164382This is all make believe
>>77164354ive been trying the lyle macdonald way with a 2 second pause at the bottom and ive made more gains with less weight
>>77164395More lies. I have tried it all over 20+ years
>>77164393do you live in one of those countries where everyone is poor and starving all the time?
>>77164358It's genetics. Nutrition only affects adult calf size and things like that if you're severely malnourished.
>>77164354You can grow them, but not to as great of an extent as a lot of other muscles, and it's difficult to do so and requires a large amount of volume.
This topic is extremely irritating with endless morons offering their worthless advice
>>77164410good thing you bumped it chicken legs
>>77164354>Have short tibias>heh I just got great calf genetics. Those things are like tree trunks. All I did was walk my fat ass around.
>>77164354Grab a plate at the bottom of it overhand vertically, rest it on pelvis, walk - forces you to push pelvis forward and use calves as intended - upright posture walk. Calf raises don't work because center of gravity is wrong, because pelvis is moves bacwards, and it's wrong movemet- gastroc Brenda knee not extended it.>>77164373Not all fatsoes walk with their bellies in front of them "produdly", those that do have good calves, cause they use em for locomotion.Good calves are function of good posture, the better the posture the better the calves.Lovely, new captcha .,.
>>77164354>calves cannot be grown.Yes they can. They're like any other muscle. Why are you retarded
>>77164428Prove it. You wont
>>77164371I don't believe you.
>>77164444The burden of proof is on you for making the claim that they don't. Why are they different from quadriceps, biceps, etc? Why can't they grow the same way the other muscles do?
>>77164354I am blessed with 99th percentile calves genetics.
>>77164462Dumbass
>>77164469Fucking lol, good argument. Enjoy your tiny calves and cope by telling yourself that it's not just you, nobody can grow their calves
>>77164354Whether it's the best way to "grow" them or not, the best thing you can do to train your calves is just fucking run. Don't spend an extra 15 minutes in the gym fucking around with calf raises, spend 30 minutes going outside and running.
>>77164462NTA but calves have a large amount of slow-twitch fibers, which don't grow as much or as fast and respond better to high volume work. They don't "not grow" like OP is saying, but they don't grow as much as something like biceps or triceps either.
>>77164396have you done high weight and very high reps?logic would dictate that a muscle group that is built for constant "high rep" usage needs to be overloaded and stimulated the same way
>>77164619>high weight and very high reps?How would that even work? If you can do high reps with a weight isn't it by definition not heavy?>logic would dictate that a muscle group that is built for constant "high rep" usage needs to be overloaded and stimulated the same wayI'd be more inclined to say that considering muscles adapt to stimulus it's precisely by giving it a novel stimulus that forces it to grow and adapt.
>>77164576>>77164606People who run have tiny calves. You need to do 10-20 reps full rom past failure with cheating. If your calves don't eventually grow from this they will never grow.
>>77164354My calves grow, but it's not worth the effort it requires.
>>77164408By large amount do you mean a lot of sets?
That's ok, all powerful and muscular Animals have no Calves, so I'm ok :)And the most monstrous Calves you see are on absolute physically pathetic creatures like east Asian women and office monkey nerds who haven't even lifted a weight before. It's almost like Calves are a bizarre world opposite muscle than shows a less of a formidable athlete the bigger the size. Quite intriguing isn't it
Mine grew more from walking 10k steps daily for many months than for tonnes of calf exercises in the gym
>>77164765Yeah, lots of sets and lots of reps.
>>77164791Alright
>>77164651Can you tldr you schizopost so regular humans can understand it?
>>77164804Also do bent knee calf raises in addition to normal ones, because there's a muscle in there (soleus) which doesn't get worked very well with just regular calf raises.
>>77164354No shit is cope, you just have to walk.it's pure numbers game.the more you walk, the more varied the path the more it grows.ain't no fucking gayboy 4x10 with a few measley pounds going to beat out literal thousands of pounds of volume.
>>77164823Interesting, I've never heard of this
>>77164354I've injured one of my calves a few years ago. This injury reduced my ankle mobility by a lot so my right leg does most of the lifting when I walk. The result is that my right calf is like 2 inches bigger
>>77164776Ah yes, suddenly calves are just no nie o, lol>>77164651They are definitely worked xD
>>77164823You get soleus work from jogging
>>77164880that's why biking hits calves so well: you get work through the full range of knee angle
>>77164837cope, hikers have practically the same calves as everyone else
You people are all fucking retarded.I was 250 - 300 lbs working warehouse walking 10+miles everyday for years. I've been complimented on my calves all the time since becoming a human weight.The only thing that makes these fuckers big is massive weight and massive work. Max out your raise machine doing 100+ reps maybe even 200. Or just walk 10 miles everyday with 100lbs weighted vest everyday kek. You'll seem them grow.
Kick a football (the real ones, those spherical objects meant to be kicked with the foot).
No it's literally just biking, bikers who don't starve themselves have massive unbelievable calves.Not that I'd want to bike 30 miles a day, but I've seen the calves in person of said bikers who do 100 a day.
I have insane calves, it's 100% genetic, I think it's mostly the shape. Mine are very wide and like a shield shape. I was running and cycling and they blew up. I hit them like once every two weeks.
>>77165059so explain why i have larger calves than Arnold in his prime, while weighing less than him and all i literally do is hike most days.
>>77165452OK, if you actually hike all day (as in, in an occupational capacity or as some thru-hiking/backpacking vagabond) that might actually do it as far as building calves go. i was more thinking someone who hikes as a hobby.
Wrestlers tend to have good calves. This is an old Korean wrestler who competed back in the 80s and the pic is from a tv appearance in the 10s I think. Literally only reason I know about this random guy is because of his calves I mire.
>>77165468I am not exaggerating.I hike nearly every day, it's really all there is to do here and I am autistic as shit.I'm also not a stick boy, which is probably what you're thinking.I weigh in at around 200lbs and i'm built like a slow moving truck, I'm just built to keep moving.it's about 10 miles daily total.my calves are almost as large as my legs are. I think they are 3/4th the size of my legs.i look like if you took a dwarf and proportionally made him taller.
>>77165057Makes a lot of sense. My calves might grow because of you
>>77164354Just be a huge fatty for like your entire teenage years, and I mean like 350+lbs then lose it all in your 20s. You'll have unnaturally huge calves that will be the envy of every gym bro.
I dunno man I was obese until my mid 20s so I have "ok" calves, but after I started lifting a focused on calves I still put two more inches on them. YMMV but to me doing 4 sets of 15 reps of real FULL range of motion on calves really helped. You want to load them up and not bounce on the bottom. Now that said I'm DYEL as fuck, I go ballistic at calves because I need them to support me on my hobbies.
>>77164606Your fiber composition as a percentage of mass can change with training. Just do weighted calf raises and you're set.
>>77164428he's being retarded for attention and you're giving it ro him
>>77164373skinnyfats often do have shit calfs. but strongfats do not
I have phenomenal calves and I’ve never intentionally worked them out nor have I been fat. I did used to run a lot which probably helped I guess.
>>77164354I have always had "huge" calves(relative to my size) from my teens onward. Never knew why but last year I made an interesting find - I've always had back problems which led to permanently tense hamstrings and calves where latter hypertrophied quite a bit.
>>77164402Cope. It's a muscle you can stimulate and grow, like any other.
>>77166826toe striker?
>>77166865>It's a muscle you can stimulate and grow, like any other.>It just doesn't happen to grow like any other muscle you stimulate.
not a single calf progress pic posted. op is right
