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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: February 25, 2017, 06:03:53 am »Calf Raises-
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Do you feel anything from doing bodyweight calf raises? I know most of the forum members that do them load them up pretty heavy with a barbell. I think I started my calf training at 84kgs 3x12 with the balls of my feet on a 12kg plate for fuller ROM, focusing on controlled eccentric.
I feel like since you have a background of sprints which hit the calves pretty hard your calves would already be strong.
Yeah I still feel it doing bodyweight calf raises. I read your post before I trained today so I tried doing some barbell calf raises with 60kg(132lbs) and they were easy. I like doing calf raises without shoes though as I feel you get less ROM when you're wearing shoes.
ya i like calf raises shoeless too.. i dno if it's just me, but bodyweight calf raises activate my glutes a ton.. less so when I use a barbell .. but in general BW calf raises make my glutes die, more so than my calves.
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I think it's just you with the calf raises activating the glutes haha.
ya dude i think it is.. hah. i should start a thread on it -> in fact i will.
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My hypothesis as to why calf raises feel better shoeless is because the foot has more room/flexibility, which should increase the amount of ROM during the exercise.
ya and you're activating more intrinsics in the foot i imagine.
i prefer doing calisthenics/simple workouts in my backyard barefoot, feels goood.
