| Re: calfs-or lack of!
The calves spend all day carting you around & each one can take your much more than your entire bodyweight on it's own. What you have is a muscle with plenty of endurance & contractile strength. In order to get them to adapt, they need a stimulus different from the volume of work they get all day long. Try this:
Standing calf raises: 2 sets of 12-15 to warmup, very slow reps from a full stretch to a full contraction. Try going six seconds in each direction & you must try to override your instinct to contract the muscle quickly. Then do a working set of 8-10 to complete blood curdling failure at the same tempo.
Now hobble over to the seated calf raise (leg bent at 90 degrees) machine. Do one warmup set & then one set to failure in the same fashion. That's the end of the calf workout.
Now try to hold the clutch pedal down in the car at lights! You'll kangaroo the car all the way home. |