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Do High Reps On Calf Exercises

April 6, 2008 on 7:32 am | In Weight Training Exercises, Legs, Calves, Build Muscle |

  The calves are one of the hardest body parts to add muscle mass to if you’re on a weight training routine. Genetics play a big part in how big your calves are. You’ve no doubt seen muscular guys at the gym who have no calves and people who haven’t weight trained a day in their life with huge calves. If you weren’t born with muscular calves you needn’t worry because you can still build them up by doing calf workouts.

  The calves tend to recover quicker than other muscle groups. Every time you walk you use them so it’ll take some high intensity weight training to get them to grow. Since the calf muscles recover so fast you should possibly do your calf workouts more often - maybe every other day. You could run for your cardio workouts to help build the calves as well.

  Another thing about the calves is that you should use high reps on your calf exercise to build muscle size in them. You won’t get much work from 8 rep sets when you do calves. You should do at least 15-20 reps for calf exercises even when you do a heavy leg workout. You should also use as much weight as possible for this amount of reps and go to failure on every set. To get the most out of your calf training you should do full reps on your exercises and, when you can no longer do another full rep, do some bouncing half reps. This will fry your calves and hopefully set you on your way to adding muscle size to them