biggest natural gain on calves?

Dave_19 · Nov 9, 2006

Calves are a tricky muscle group to work with, very hard to grow. I'm wondering what is the biggest increment in size gain you guys have had naturally or have heard of. When I say naturally, I mean no spot work, synthol, spot injections, implants

. My calves I have never been too content with, they were around 15.5" before I started training now around 17.5" they look ok, but average for a bbers calves, im just lucky I have small joints. I have a feeling no matter how hard I train them im going to cap out around 18.5", if im lucky. I would love to hear some type of success story to change my mind.

JohnnyPro · Nov 9, 2006

I don't know how tall you are but if your calves were 15.5 inches before you started training that is not bad at all.

Fullybuilt · Nov 9, 2006

I got lucky in the calve/leg department, but unlucky in the arm dept. Calves when I was all natual and trained at around 20yrs old were about 16.5". Now at 24yrs old they are 18.5" and very lean with veins.

Big Danny · Nov 9, 2006

How do you hit the calves? Have you tried different ways of tranining? Just curious.

Fullybuilt · Nov 10, 2006

Not sure who your ? was addressed to, but I usually only do 2 calve excersies 1x per week. Standing and seated raises. 10reps 3sets each. Sometime I only train them 1x per 2weeks. Them and legs are my only parts that seem to never lose size and keep growing

Ashop · Nov 13, 2006

Dave_19 said:
Calves are a tricky muscle group to work with, very hard to grow. I'm wondering what is the biggest increment in size gain you guys have had naturally or have heard of. When I say naturally, I mean no spot work, synthol, spot injections, implants. My calves I have never been too content with, they were around 15.5" before I started training now around 17.5" they look ok, but average for a bbers calves, im just lucky I have small joints. I have a feeling no matter how hard I train them im going to cap out around 18.5", if im lucky. I would love to hear some type of success story to change my mind.

Hard to believe but when started calves were 12",,,,now 18+".

JohnnyPro · Nov 13, 2006

Alin said:
Hard to believe but when started calves were 12",,,,now 18+".

Wow, that is a great gain on your calves... I've only gained a couple of inches on them since I started training.

gfactor · Nov 13, 2006

19" natural

BigWilly · Nov 13, 2006

when I started 3 years ago they were probably 16"

now they are closer to 20"...haven't measured in a while just guessing..

no "spot work" on them.

combination of genetics and training them until you fall down...you really have to punish the calves!

BW

leapfrog · Nov 13, 2006

calves

i agree with FB!!you can cause the muscle type to change fast-slow or slow to fast depending on training.after i learned this i started doing 1-all out heavy super set of calves a week.my calves exploded and others i have trained have too.

take note:if you have long muscle belly's and/or long distances between your knee and ankle then big calves are not in your future

Fullybuilt said:
Not sure who your ? was addressed to, but I usually only do 2 calve excersies 1x per week. Standing and seated raises. 10reps 3sets each. Sometime I only train them 1x per 2weeks. Them and legs are my only parts that seem to never lose size and keep growing

Dave_19 · Nov 14, 2006

gfactor said:
19" natural

I don't care about how big they are, I care about how much of a gain you acheived. Most guys that have 19-20"+ calves naturally also have ankles that are fatter then my calves, no symetry, not the look im going for.

Fullybuilt · Nov 14, 2006

Dave_19 said:
I don't care about how big they are, I care about how much of a gain you acheived. Most guys that have 19-20"+ calves naturally also have ankles that are fatter then my calves, no symetry, not the look im going for.

I don't even think Cutler had lean 19" calves natually.