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Originally Posted by bigbench  Bridger brought up an old but good routine. I remember reading it in MM2000 a long time ago and saw HUGE improvements to my calves. The science behind it is that your calf muscles are the most endurances muscles in your body so high reps will do little to stimulate the growth. Just like if you are wanting to increase chest size, you wouldnt do 20-30 reps all the time. But eventhough they are well enduranced, they also fatigue easily which is why you want to hit them hard in a short period of time. Next time you do it, try doing your normal calf routine at the BEGINING of your leg workout. You will feel them straining the whole time as you are trying to stablize yourself. At the end, go with that routine but chose a weight that you can only do 15 reps with, but force out those last 5 to get to 20. As for the rest, dont rest more than 5 full seconds. At first most need 10 seconds, but then you can work down to 5. Once you can do that with 5 secs rest and get 100 reps, then you can add another set and do it to 75 again. Try one set hardcore twice a week to start and see what happens after a few weeks. |
thanks man, i'm gonna give this routine a try. probably do it 3 days a week unless it starts to feel like too much. i don't always work calves on leg day, it just kinda happened to fall on that day but i am going to start training them at the beginning of the workout