Nelson's Calf Routine

[Big_BK]

You can train any body part in this concentrated manner but it is most effective with muscle groups that contain mostly slow twitch fibers. They can not be affected by heavy training. If you have naturally thin calves and train them heavy, the ligaments will simply take on the extra stress so it sort of defeats the purpose.

The fact that the routine only takes a few minutes a week has obvious advantages.

so is the theory behind using lighter weight you can rep that the ligaments wont take over since its light enough for the calf to do most if not all of the work but the high reps just beat the hell out of them?

 

[needtogetaas]

I think I am going to try this myself. Where is it?

 

[goku_kakarot77]

i put it in my routine before and i couldn't walk lol

 

[Nelson Montana]

so is the theory behind using lighter weight you can rep that the ligaments wont take over since its light enough for the calf to do most if not all of the work but the high reps just beat the hell out of them?

In a sense yeah, but it's also the time under tension thing that makes it work. Since calves are used to a lot of "volume" they need the work to be very concentrated to have a reason to respond.

 

[biggernu]

You can train any body part in this concentrated manner but it is most effective with muscle groups that contain mostly slow twitch fibers. They can not be affected by heavy training. If you have naturally thin calves and train them heavy, the ligaments will simply take on the extra stress so it sort of defeats the purpose.

The fact that the routine only takes a few minutes a week has obvious advantages.

Refresh my memoryi havent had anatomy for 6 years, whats the difference between red and white fast twitch muscle fibers?

 

[ireekofawesomeness]

Where is this routine?

 

[biggernu]

Where is this routine?

taken from his first post

Nelson - Choose a weight that you normally fail at around 20 reps. Rest for 10-20 seconds (just long enuf for the lactic acid to go away) and go again. Repeat until 75 reps are done.

 

[GUARDIAN]

Well I could definitely tell during my second time training calves this week that I had hit them 2 days prior. Normally I find them only "tight & vaguely sore" from the previous workout but they were definitely sore.

Today (only 15 hours later) they are still sore but not that excrutiating pain sore that I can't walk. I kinda screwed up yesterday's routine a little. I choose the wrong weight for the 20 rep failure range. Since I had been previously aiming for 50 reps I had to take a guess at what I would fail at 20 with. Well I ended up failing at 31 reps. So the workout was a little easier than I had inteneded for it to be.

It is well worth giving a try!

 

[ireekofawesomeness]

Great workout. after i was done i was walking around gym. When i tried to stand on my toes my legs were shaking like a new born deer. Thanks

 

[GUARDIAN]

Great workout. after i was done i was walking around gym. When i tried to stand on my toes my legs were shaking like a new born deer. Thanks

thx nelson