Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Calves Other Muscles Worked: None Equipment: Dumbbell Mechanics Type: Isolation Tips: Place a wooden block or something similar on the ground that is at least 2 – 3 inches tall. Grasp a dumbbell in each hand. Position your toes and balls of feet on the block with arches and heels [...]
Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Calves Other Muscles Worked: None Equipment: Machine Mechanics Type: Isolation Tips: Stand with your toes on the block of a standing-calf-raise machine and your heels hanging off the end of the platform. Hook your shoulders under the pads and straight your legs, lifting the weight clear of the support. Do [...]
Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Calves Other Muscles Worked: None Equipment: Barbell Mechanics Type: Isolation Tips: Set a barbell on a power rack and put a block of wood or something similar nearby. Position your back under the barbell with both hands to sides, just like if you were doing squats. Position your toes and [...]
Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Calves Other Muscles Worked: None Equipment: Machine Mechanics Type: Isolation Tips: The tables anterior is a muscle that is highly underrated. People focus on developing the gastrocnemius, but the tibialis can make just as much impact on making the calf area bigger. It adds both width to the leg from [...]
Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Calves Other Muscles Worked: None Equipment: Machine Mechanics Type: Isolation Tips: Sit on a calf raise machine. Place your upper thighs under the leg pad just above your knees. Disengage any weight lock that may be in place. Lower your heels to the lowest possible position. Slowly raise up on [...]
Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Calves Other Muscles Worked: Hamstrings Equipment: Body Only Mechanics Type: Compound Tips: To perform knee circles, stand with your legs at shoulder width apart. Move your knees in a circular motion while staying mobilized. Perform ‘circles’ with your knees. Watch The Video: Windows Media – MPEG – Video iPod
Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Calves Other Muscles Worked: None Equipment: Dumbbell Mechanics Type: Isolation Tips: Place a block on the floor about 12 inches from a flat bench. Sit on the bench and rest a dumbbell on your upper left thigh about 3 inches above your knee. Place the ball of your left foot [...]
Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Calves Other Muscles Worked: None Equipment: Other Mechanics Type: Isolation Tips: Many of you may have seen Arnold do this in his heyday, but how many of you actually know that it was called Donkey calf raises or even do them? I’ll just give you a quick run through on [...]
Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Calves Other Muscles Worked: None Equipment: Other Mechanics Type: Isolation Tips: Stand on a band so that the tension begins with hands by shoulders and standing straight up. (Make sure you are standing on the band with your toes). Keeping hands by your shoulder, stand up on your toes as [...]
Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Calves Other Muscles Worked: None Equipment: Dumbbell Mechanics Type: Isolation Tips: When doing one-legged calf raises, stand on a dumbbell handle (preferably one with round plates so it rolls). This tendency to roll will make you work to stabilize yourself as you’re doing the calf raise, increasing the effectiveness of [...]
