calf won't grow !

[racamp101]

Alright I've tried a lot to grow my calf's but obviously not enough...

Anyone out there suffer with insanely hard to grow calf's? I just can't get them to grow! Anyone got any tips or complete workouts that will help?

 

[racamp101]

double post

Didn't mean to double post, see: http://www.professionalmuscle.com/forums/beginners-forum/114232-calfs-wont-grow.html

 

[Bleed]

How is the rest of your body responding to training? What are you doing for calfs now that they won't grow?

 

[racamp101]

How is the rest of your body responding to training? What are you doing for calfs now that they won't grow?

The rest of my body is responding great I'm making gains almost every two weeks on everything.

I'm currently doing donkey with weight belt three sets. One leg standing calf raise 3 sets and ill add another set of something for calfs till fail. I train them once a week should I start training more often?

 

[mslmn]

The rest of my body is responding great I'm making gains almost every two weeks on everything.

I'm currently doing donkey with weight belt three sets. One leg standing calf raise 3 sets and ill add another set of something for calfs till fail. I train them once a week should I start training more often?

Once a week is not going to do shit if you have lacking calves. I train mine 4-6 times a week depending on my training schedule. They always been behind the rest of my physique. I've been at it for almost two decades, even though they still lack behind, they greatly improved the past couple years to the point that I now get asked for advice on how to develop them every so often.

You just have to put in the time and figure out what works for you. As for myself, I train them for about a half hour before I get started with my workout.

 

[biffnbash]

I gave up on mine circa 95....genetics and I don't care

 

[Axillist]

Genetics play a large part in Calf development however you should never be training a lagging bodypart only one time per week in my opinion. I do standing raises on my leg day and then also mix calves in with my back workout and usually incorporate sled sprints on my toes as a final burnout.

 

[racamp101]

Once a week is not going to do shit if you have lacking calves. I train mine 4-6 times a week depending on my training schedule. They always been behind the rest of my physique. I've been at it for almost two decades, even though they still lack behind, they greatly improved the past couple years to the point that I now get asked for advice on how to develop them every so often.

You just have to put in the time and figure out what works for you. As for myself, I train them for about a half hour before I get started with my workout.

30 minutes before each work out? That seems like id be over training them.. I'm desperate so I'll add in calfs everyday or every other day and see how I feel.

 

[racamp101]

Genetics play a large part in Calf development however you should never be training a lagging bodypart only one time per week in my opinion. I do standing raises on my leg day and then also mix calves in with my back workout and usually incorporate sled sprints on my toes as a final burnout.

Sounds like I'm just bitching out and not training them as hard as I should. Thanks for the workout advice I'll try incorporated these.

 

[SAGE74]

Take it outside and shoot it!

 

[racamp101]

Take it outside and shoot it!

Haha I feel that way sometimes

 

[johnjuanb1]

HOW TO GET HUGE CALVES

Intramuscularly inject igf1-Lr3 post calve workout either eod or 3x/wk. Put 5mcg Igf1-Lr3 in 10 sites on each calve.

CALVE WORKOUT

I find the best response from calves comes by training them 3 times a week, or EOD, hitting only one exercise per workout. Make sure you do a different exercise each workout.
It's very important with calves to use a very slow cadence throughout the movement. If you ever see guys work their calves by bouncing the weight quickly, you'll notice they have no calves. They are merely being lazy and often putting way too much weight on the machine. This is a total waste of time. I believe in heavy weights, but you want to slowly squeeze the weight up, contract and flex with a 3 count hold at the top of the movement, and take a 5 count on the negative, into a good stretch. Each rep should take approximately 10 seconds to complete. You want a weight that you can only get 10 good reps. There are 3 parts to each set. You will use 3 foot positions to hit the outer and inner head of the calves. There will be 4 complete sets with 3 parts to each set, and a change in order of foot position for each successive set. You can do these on the seated calve raise machine, inclined calve raise machine, standing calve raise machine, leg press, etc.

SET #1:

Do 10 slow reps with toes facing forward, very slow and controlled, strong contraction at the top and a 3 count hold, then slowly take it down in a 5 count with a good stretch. Immediately after completing 10 reps which you should barely be able to do based on how heavy your weight is, point your toes outward and do 5-10 more reps in the exact same fashoin to emphasize the inner head. Then, immediately after this, point your toes inward and complete the final 5-10 reps in the sane fashion to emphasize the outer head. This is considered 1 set.

SET #2:

Same exact idea but this time you begin with toes outward, move into toes inward, and end with toes straight ahead.

SET #3:

Same idea but begin with toes inward, move into toes straight ahead, and end with toes outward.

SET #4:

REPEAT SET #1

 

[racamp101]

Intramuscularly inject igf1-Lr3 post calve workout either eod or 3x/wk. Put 5mcg Igf1-Lr3 in 10 sites on each calve.

CALVE WORKOUT

I find the best response from calves comes by training them 3 times a week, or EOD, hitting only one exercise per workout. Make sure you do a different exercise each workout.
It's very important with calves to use a very slow cadence throughout the movement. If you ever see guys work their calves by bouncing the weight quickly, you'll notice they have no calves. They are merely being lazy and often putting way too much weight on the machine. This is a total waste of time. I believe in heavy weights, but you want to slowly squeeze the weight up, contract and flex with a 3 count hold at the top of the movement, and take a 5 count on the negative, into a good stretch. Each rep should take approximately 10 seconds to complete. You want a weight that you can only get 10 good reps. There are 3 parts to each set. You will use 3 foot positions to hit the outer and inner head of the calves. There will be 4 complete sets with 3 parts to each set, and a change in order of foot position for each successive set. You can do these on the seated calve raise machine, inclined calve raise machine, standing calve raise machine, leg press, etc.

SET #1:

Do 10 slow reps with toes facing forward, very slow and controlled, strong contraction at the top and a 3 count hold, then slowly take it down in a 5 count with a good stretch. Immediately after completing 10 reps which you should barely be able to do based on how heavy your weight is, point your toes outward and do 5-10 more reps in the exact same fashoin to emphasize the inner head. Then, immediately after this, point your toes inward and complete the final 5-10 reps in the sane fashion to emphasize the outer head. This is considered 1 set.

SET #2:

Same exact idea but this time you begin with toes outward, move into toes inward, and end with toes straight ahead.

SET #3:

Same idea but begin with toes inward, move into toes straight ahead, and end with toes outward.

SET #4:

REPEAT SET #1

Thanks for the work out! Hopefully it'll start showing me results.

As for the igf1-Lr3 I don't know to much about it. Could you enlighten me?

 

[johnjuanb1]

Thanks for the work out! Hopefully it'll start showing me results.

As for the igf1-Lr3 I don't know to much about it. Could you enlighten me?

Elevated igf1 levels increase muscle size, recovery, and fat loss dramatically. By micro dosing it at 5mcg to 10mcg per injection site it remains localized and causes new muscle cell proliferation, site muscle growth. You dose it EOD or 3 days a week to prevent receptor down regulation. Igf1Lr3 has a 12 hour minimum half life. If you reconstitute it with bacteriostatic water it remains viable in the refrigerator for 20-30 days. If you reconstitute it with acetic acid it is good at room temperature for 2 years.

 

[racamp101]

Elevated igf1 levels increase muscle size, recovery, and fat loss dramatically. By micro dosing it at 5mcg to 10mcg per injection site it remains localized and causes new muscle cell proliferation, site muscle growth. You dose it EOD or 3 days a week to prevent receptor down regulation. Igf1Lr3 has a 12 hour minimum half life. If you reconstitute it with bacteriostatic water it remains viable in the refrigerator for 20-30 days. If you reconstitute it with acetic acid it is good at room temperature for 2 years.

Awesome quick write up. I did some research a bit on my own and it looks super promising. Thanks for opening my eyes.

 

[racamp101]

Intramuscularly inject igf1-Lr3 post calve workout either eod or 3x/wk. Put 5mcg Igf1-Lr3 in 10 sites on each calve.

CALVE WORKOUT

I find the best response from calves comes by training them 3 times a week, or EOD, hitting only one exercise per workout. Make sure you do a different exercise each workout.
It's very important with calves to use a very slow cadence throughout the movement. If you ever see guys work their calves by bouncing the weight quickly, you'll notice they have no calves. They are merely being lazy and often putting way too much weight on the machine. This is a total waste of time. I believe in heavy weights, but you want to slowly squeeze the weight up, contract and flex with a 3 count hold at the top of the movement, and take a 5 count on the negative, into a good stretch. Each rep should take approximately 10 seconds to complete. You want a weight that you can only get 10 good reps. There are 3 parts to each set. You will use 3 foot positions to hit the outer and inner head of the calves. There will be 4 complete sets with 3 parts to each set, and a change in order of foot position for each successive set. You can do these on the seated calve raise machine, inclined calve raise machine, standing calve raise machine, leg press, etc.

SET #1:

Do 10 slow reps with toes facing forward, very slow and controlled, strong contraction at the top and a 3 count hold, then slowly take it down in a 5 count with a good stretch. Immediately after completing 10 reps which you should barely be able to do based on how heavy your weight is, point your toes outward and do 5-10 more reps in the exact same fashoin to emphasize the inner head. Then, immediately after this, point your toes inward and complete the final 5-10 reps in the sane fashion to emphasize the outer head. This is considered 1 set.

SET #2:

Same exact idea but this time you begin with toes outward, move into toes inward, and end with toes straight ahead.

SET #3:

Same idea but begin with toes inward, move into toes straight ahead, and end with toes outward.

SET #4:

REPEAT SET #1

Just wanted to go on and say this workout has been great! Really helping me hit the three groups.

Next is to try some igf1-Lr3

 

[byorn]

don't worry, syntherol will always be there as a last solution

 

[6iron]

What ever exercises you choose, make sure you stretch the Achilles as much as possible on every down movement of your reps.

 

[racamp101]

What ever exercises you choose, make sure you stretch the Achilles as much as possible on every down movement of your reps.

I always stand on a weight or box in order to get some negative movement. Is that what your talking about?

 

[Elvia1023]

If you don't have calf genetics you will never get them to look great. I have tried everything you can (I really mean that). Guys may think you mustn't have as your calves are crap. All the top coaches techniques and many I have created myself. From fast to slow reps (up to 20 sec reps), 10-100 reps, different angles and the list goes on and on. Anyway my point being....

http://www.professionalmuscle.com/forums/professional-muscle-forum/109231-syntherol-log-calves.html