I am adonismaxxing and have the genetics for it. I am satisfied with my physique except for my STUPID TINY CALVES. I'll be honest, they have never been a priority but I haven't entirely neglected them either. Now that they are my top priority, how do I grow them to match the rest of me? I know they need lots of volume, but where should it come from? Bodyweight calf raises to failure every night? Walking on my toes everywhere I go? Spamming 20x20 calf raises every workout? Both standing and seated? Weighted vest? Sports like tennis where I'm on my toes? I don't walk often and when I do, I walk on my heels so I mostly use my glutes. Please help me, my potential is immense and I am wasting it by walking around on toothpicks. They look like that annoying charlie penguinz youtuber's calves. I crop them out when I post in /cbt/ out of shame and embarrassment. I am ready to grind away autistically, I just need some direction.
Lol u look absolutely dyel levels of small what are u talking about twinkboi
I'm going for maximum beauty, not mass. I'm asking for advice about my calves you buffoon. The rest of me is near-perfect as far as I'm concerned.
Pump + lighting = perfect
Yes ok mein neger
You look great anon, the fatties are just jealous. Stair walking is incredible for calves, especially if you put some extra weight on with like a weight vest
These are not the same person.
That being said train them like anything else. Put that barbell on your back and started doing calf raises in the 10-20 range to failure. In a year they should be pretty good if you've progressively overloaded 100 lb +
Thanks for the advice and nice picrel. These photos are all of me, I replied to the other anon with a full upper body pump in an attempt to btfo. In contrast, this pic and OP were taken after a relaxing breaststroke swim.
Looks dysgenic
>I'm going for maximum beauty, not mass
Mass is everything my friend
I disagree, in my mind I look worse with a pump. I posted picrel in yesterday's cbt, I think I look better here than there
with a pump. Another example: I think olympic sprinters and gymnasts look better than bodybuilders.
They are aesthetic but gymnasts sre manlets like bodybuilders
A bit more thigh width will do you great, other than that good work.
Check the measurement of the statues's legs/arms to hip width and turn it into a ratio to follow for more accuracy
You should do leg workouts. It’s not just your calves that are lacking
Yeah you're probably right, I'll start training them twice a week instead of once. I should at least be able to squat 140kg even if I don't like big legs. I don't want to look silly. But the calves are top priority, quads and hammies second, and upper body volume will be maintained for the next year or so. Once my legs catch up I'll start growing the rest again.
Hes tall and mogs you
Any homosexual that says shit like this and doesn't even post body is moronic
>Bodyweight calf raises to failure every night?
This will fix them
Do you recommend unilateral or bilateral?
Bilateral
Put a bunch of 25s and 10s in a backpack and hold the walls/rails on a staircase for stability while going all the way down on one leg. That and run fast/uphill and do box jumps.
Sounds fun actually. Should I wear the backpack in the front so that the center of gravity is shifted forwards?
Depends on if you wanna focus your ankles(front) or knees. Just try to find one that isn't some west coast death gaps they're out of their minds over there. They have some longer downhills with less intense jumps that I've seen its the walk back up that gives you steel tendons.
You’re not flexing your legs and they don’t have good lighting. Your shorts are also a bit long.
I’m sure they would look better if you fixed that.
agreed, shorts are tooooo long
Skip Rope or long distance running or walking.
OK its easy
1) have good genetics (important)
2) be obese for a decade or two (still lift a lot and play football so you build a lot of muscle/actually use your calves)
3) lose the weight
these 3 easy steps have given me God like calves. cons: stretch marks and loose skin, as well as probably shaving a few years off of your life from the obese for a decade or two part.
I know this works but there's no way I'm ever letting myself get fat again.
OK jokes aside...do standing rather than seated. it's moronic to target the soleus when the gastroc is what you care about. the weighted stretch portion of it is super important, make sure to hold and get that stretch each rep rather than just banging out 30 half assed reps. definitely spam them since it's a smaller muscle and will recover quickly...might be a good idea to do bodyweight on stairs throughout the day but then try to do weighted whenever you gym. take pics/measure so you can actually see progress, it's gonna take a long time
use a bycicle to get everywhere. I do, will move to a new flat starting next year, guess how I'll transport all our stuff. With a cart I can couple onto my bike lmao. Probably will be 20 runs back and forth but whatever, luckily it's not that far away
will post my sexy legs if at home
Good idea, thanks
I walk 7 minutes to the gym
The calves or the scoliosis? Also post body.
Good idea, thanks. That sounds comfy
I'm just lifting for aesthetics and adjusting the volume for different muscle groups, aiming for the greek statue look. For example I don't do as many squats as the average ISTizen because I like to have slim but defined quads that work in jeans. I don't go very low on shoulder press movements so that I don't fill out my supraspinatus, in order to keep the separation between delts and arms. I avoid lower chest work entirely and try to target the upper chest. Recently I noticed my biceps peak was ahead of thickness so I'm doing more shoulder-width barbell curls. Stuff like that, not really aiming to be the biggest or the strongest but the best looking.
get really fat and walk up stairs or something
Carry 50-100lbs, 4-6 miles, 3-4 times a week, for 2-3 months.
You drive to the gym don't you
Get a weight vest and just walk on an incline on the treadmill. Your calves will blow up.
How do you Adonismaxx? You got me curious.
What's your diet like, routine, etc.
I too love Greek statues.
I've got huge calves from being fat and walking everywhere. At my worst I was 280 lbs but was walking 2 miles to and from work everyday and not flat, the terrain was up and down all over, I'd walk through a park and so it wasn't just sidewalks.
I really think that's the way to get calves to grow, is from simply walking on uneven terrain with weight. So get one of those weighted vests and walk or better go for a hike. I mean you gotta think how hard it was on my calves when I was almost 300 pounds, just standing was an ordeal for my legs lol.
Canela de cachorro kkkkk
How are you planning on fixing the gaping hole in your chest?
I have the secret to growing calves, I did it as a youngster.
You walk around like general grievous.
Slow and methodical, with your heel always up in the air, sloped over to affect more hypertrophy.
Unironically I think that's what stiletto heels were designed for; building calves.
Love it, I'll do the voice too.
>Your lightsabers will make a fine addition to my collection
>no legs
You should squat.
Routine? Gear?
Try skipping rope with proper form, bouncing on the balls of your feet without letting your heels touch the ground.
A big thanks to all the anons who gave me advice and a reality check about my upper legs. I will start doing these things from now on:
>Implement one set of bilateral calf raises to failure into my daily evening ritual
>Use my bicycle to get around more
>Finish each workout with weighted standing calf raises with a 2 second stretch at the bottom and progressive overload OR a 20 minute weighted incline treadmill walk
>Reduce my upper body days so I can have a second leg day, maybe something like PPLxULx
>Walk around like general grevious and annoy people
I'm proud of IST today. I wanted advice and got mostly that, a few bucket crabs but fewer than expected. You're all kings and you will all make it.
im 6'5" and i have always had chicken legs that i was always self-conscious of. this year, i did calf raises, and legs press, and leg curls for hamstrings and that's it. my legs and glutes have gained so much mass from only those three exercises
for calves, i recommend calf raises with one leg at a time but concentrate on your mind to muscle connection so you really feel your calf being activated. i do them off of a bench so that my heel hangs off of the edge so that i can reach a greater ROM. that way, when you're going back up with your calf raise, you're fighting against gravity instead of doing it from a flat surface.
IMO, if you're thinking of doing jump rope or walking around or whatever to work your calves out, just do more calf raises instead. calf raises will murder your calves if you do it with slow, eccentric form and imo, nothing else compares.
you look great, btw. mirin' you doing your own thing. keep it up!