Article: Balancing Your Physique

Thought calves were more genetics and only hypertrophy 15%? I will look up the case-study later but has anyone truly ever gained an inch in girth in their calves? I have long legs, thighs that widen from my hips but below the knee looks pencil like lol. I dont neglect legs and I feel my numbers are decent but anyone have a decent testimonial? Forearms and Traps do get great results on the other hand.
 
I've gained on my calves, but you must work them like a bicep on ham machines. Also working the tibia can give you an all around larger look
 
Arnold claims that you need to put in 30-45 minutes twice a week for 12+ months to see well-developed calves. He claims in his book that it should be trained just as hard and frequently as any other small muscle group.
 
Well I was one of those guys that didn't worry too much about calf development until a little under a year in hahahha so hard to catch them up to the rest of my body. Don't make the same mistake I did.
 
Easeball said:
Well I was one of those guys that didn't worry too much about calf development until a little under a year in hahahha so hard to catch them up to the rest of my body. Don't make the same mistake I did.
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Too late.

Mine are strong though and only 3/4" shy of my arm girth so I'm not doing terrible.
 
I managed to get my calves to go from 13" to 15.5" in just under a year and a half after some experimenting in college during our off seasons of volleyball. I'm 6'1" and have the same long legged problem. It was pretty simple once I figured it out and the rest of the team saw results doing the same thing.

Split = Quads and calves one day, hamstrings and calves day 2 with 3 days in between.

Day 1:
Typical quad work out super setting with calves. Do a set of squats, then leg press calf raises. Finish out your sets as such. Leg press then standing calf raises. Finish out your sets as such

Day 2:
Stiff legged dead lifts super setting with seated calf raises. Russian hamstring curls (Nordics) supper setting Standing calf raises.

Just a sample but you get the idea. Obviously you would do more quad and ham exercises. But 2 major things though, leg press or donkey raises on seperate days vs. seated raise days, seperate your soleus training from stretched gastroc training. AND finish your set then do a burn out set DIRECTLY after every calf exercise. This hurts like help but pumps were amazing, and my vascularity was incredible. Try it out for a couple months and see what you think.
 
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