Build Bigger Calves - Three Tips For More Size

If you're like many bodybuilders, then you probably have built some size on your calves when you first started training only to find that after a few months your gains come to a screeching halt.
Why is this? Because, conventional straight set training will only take you so far in building calf mass.
You need to adopt advanced calf training techniques to get more size.
To begin your advanced calf training phase follow these three tips: Employ High Intensity Training Techniques - Your calves are very resilient and recover quickly.
Therefore, adding High Intensity Training techniques such as rest-pause, drop sets, and add sets will shock your stubborn calf muscles in to a new growth phase.
Your calf muscles, particularly your soleus muscle, have a high percentage of Type I - Slow Twitch muscle fiber.
Type I muscle fibers respond best to high repetitions.
However, to get the Type II - Fast Twitch muscle fibers to grow as well, lower rep, heavy weights are necessary.
Using rest-pause, drop sets and add sets allow you to use heavier weights for higher repetitions to have the "best of both worlds".
These techniques thoroughly fatigue both muscle fiber types to optimize your calf muscle growth.
Perform Each Rep with Full Range of Motion - When we walk, jog or run, our calves experience a partial range of motion.
Some bodybuilders perform calf raises using a short-range or partial range of motion.
This mainly due to using more weight than the calves can handle, which limits the trainer's ability to "lock out" at the top of the calf raise to achieve a full range of motion.
To thoroughly stimulate all the muscle fibers and increase the "time under tension", you must perform every repetition of every set of every calf raise exercise with a full range of motion.
This means that you must have a "peak contraction" of the calf muscles and full "lock out" of your ankles at the top of the calf raise AND a deep, full stretch at the bottom of the calf raise.
Confuse the Calf Muscles Often - Your calf muscles adapt quickly to the training loads and volumes that you apply to them.
As a result, the calves will become accustomed to the same training routine over time.
When that happens, calf muscle growth will diminish or halt.
To overcome this situation, you must keep the "calf muscles guessing" by applying different training techniques such as rest-pause, drop sets, and add sets, using different exercises on the various calf raise machines and employing different repetition schemes.
You should change one or two of these training variables each workout, or least weekly.
Keep the calf muscles confused.
Never get stuck in a "pattern" in your calf training.
This advanced calf training approach must be applied if you wish to continue your calf growth.
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