Trigger Massive Growth In Your Calves | EPIC Calf Workout
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2018
- Do you want bigger stronger calves? If so this is the calf workout for you. In this video we do a great calf workout that can be done up to 5 times a week yes 5 times a week. Make sure you watch until the end so you know how to work your way up the the 5 times a week cal workouts. If you don't you might not be able to walk.
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Who wants shredded calf muscles? Well follow this workout and you will be on your way. This superset is going to make you feel a deep burn. Make sure you get that stretch and really squeeze each rep.
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Those aren’t calves, those are full grown cows! 😳
haHAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA!!!! THIS MADE MY DAY!!!!!😂😂😂
Ahhhhhhhhh!!! 😆💀
Well said
Bulls
RIP John, you are missed but never forgotten!!! I will always watch your videos for the rest of my life, because they are very informative!
He's gone? :( How did he die? His videos are good
This guy looks like one big vein lol
tommygunTW1 wiener physique 😂
Funny
Shush
I just wanted to say, I’ve struggled with calf growth for years. I started performing this workout to a tee every other day for 4 weeks and have already seen slight calf improvement. Thank you for the time and effort you put into your extremely informative content.
hell yea!
How's the progress now?
They must be cows by now
How they looking buddy?
Can I know their status now?
This dude just seems like such a good guy I can’t figure out why
@VMH7102
Cause he s calm and honest and openly shares his knowledge with us.
It normally costs over 50 to 100 $ per hour to train with a Guy like him.
Thankyou John, for every bit of information. Your name still comes first in the mind, when we are looking for proper techniques and everything else related to workout. May your soul rest in peace.
Great info. Thankyou. I used to think I couldn't grow calves. I stepped up my frequency, and have been getting good growth. What you say is absolutely correct.
Thanks for all your calf training videos, John! They've been really helpful.
John always has the best tips
Dang! I'm slightly newer to your channel and I've got to say man, you are amazing. Great content by an honest, smart, humble dude. 👍
More brilliant advice from the best teacher out there 💪👍
awesome descriptions on your channel. very helpful since years. good job John.
as usual: quality content, short and to the point👍🤙
Love your videos. You seem like a real person. Most people in the fitness industry are completely fake. Also, I really wish I could find a gym where they play the music your gym does. Keep up the good work sir 👍
Best workouts to follow the best teacher out there 😎😎😎
Now we're talkin'!! One of my favorites!
The best calves video I’ve seen on CZcams 💯
Glad I found this. Great tips as ususl. Thanks a lot🙏🙏. Love it
When I search for hidden little tips/tricks on a certain muscle I come to your videos.Seem to find a helpful tips somewhere in the video. Thanks. Cheer's!!
thanks John for your superb instructions, If I Only Had equipment like that at my gym...
Excuses
Great info John hitting calve's today
Have some weak calves..but after these tips from you they must grow..😊💪👍
Thanks great video.
Look at that vascularity! It's a literal roadmap to victory!
Wow what a beast you are my friend, congrats!!
Thank you for this video and the other one you did with the young lady. I've always had very skinny calves and now I am in my 40's and for the first time in my life my calves are the same size as my arms. 15 and a half and this might sound small but you don't know where I had to come from. Thanks again!
Thank you
Powershack is definitely the best gym in Pickerington and in the entire east side of Columbus, OH to build huge calves. There is another calf machine over by the water fountain which is a seated "calf pressdown" machine. Powershack has amazing calf equipment.
I wish my gym had those calf machines!
Yeah saw about 6 machines just him panning around all the real gyms are dead and gone in Ft Lauderdale. Frigging hate LA Fitness.
Representing funs from Kenya...Liked and subscribed...Linked by Jeff Nippard...much love big bro
Nice thanks
One of my two lower body routines right now, for training at home is this workout + normal lower body routine.. so,
4x10-15 superset tibia + soleus
4x8 Standing calve raises
5x3 blockpulls (weighted, ofcourse)
3x10 split squats (weighted)
3x10 nordic hamcurls (bodyweight, for now)
3x10 walking lunges (weighted)
Core routine
Should this be ok to perform in a upper/lower split where I train legs twice a week?
Been working these mostly 6 days a week the last month. Doing calves FIRST thing in the gym and superset tibialis raises
whats your results like and are you still doing them?
i think you are a good man
Great video, Mountain Dog!
wonderful person
I wish I can bring this man back to life :(
This video i was missing out from getting down with my daily routine of a year back before the last job or untill the initial few weeks after job
Never in my life saw that many machines to train calves....great video and rest in peace sir!
Doing calf standing raise wrong, you should hold it for 2sec at the top and 2 sec release for *BEST* amount of growth
Calf training is all about mind muscle connection even more so mind joint connection. It took me YEARS to figure out how to actually do a calf raise that fully stretches and fully contracts. I don’t even know if the subtle difference would be captured on a camera and I don’t even know how to describe it. Now that I’m doing them the “correct” way for my anatomical structure, I’m seeing progress , albeit slow progress but progress. Before I started hitting calves I LITERALLY did not have a visible gastroc, now they are what u could consider smaller but “defined” calves.
For me after trying every and everything, the one thing that worked for me is putting a two by four on the ground, with a towel over it. I place my foot/heel on them in a way that the stretch before I even contract hurts. The other thing u have to figure out is how to feel the stretch in your gastroc NOT your Achilles. This is why I stoped doing them on stairs. In fact the stretch is more painful than the contraction. Then on the contraction..... it literally took me years to be able to fully contract to the point where I could feel my inner gastroc sort of pulling onto my knee.
Explaining how to work ur calves correctly is so difficult Because it’s not like chest where as long as u are benching, you are hitting chest, even if u have bad form and mostly hit triceps, ur still hitting chest. With calves u have to get urself into the perfect position for ur structure that really stretches the gastroc, otherwise it’s always going to be an Achilles/ soleus exercise .
To add some context I was a pretty good athlete, 4.6 ish fourty time, could dunk. Still had zero calves. Even know I still can’t figure out how to fully contract on one leg raises, maybe it’s weakness.
Moral of the story, calves are unlike the other big muscle groups, you have to use trial and error until u find that movement that stretches and contracts in a way that gets u sore in the gastroc.
I didn't fallow the link to alternative exercises but I bet it's toe raises with a slight lean to your back against a wall and seated toe raises with your fingers tips balancing a plate across your toes
Good pump!
I’ve put on 2.5cms in 4 weeks on my calf’s from following Johns Sentinal program .
I thought I was a hard gainer on calf’s but turns out I was just not training em hard enough
I’m absolutely stoked
At this rate they will 46cm( my short term goal in couple months )
thank you!!! awesome!
I also grew them for 1 inch in less than a month but i did bodyweight training every dan 3 sets
Alot of my inner calf is strong i just heard your other video on way to make My outter calf stronger
Damn I miss this guy!! Hurts sometimes even. Love ya big guy.
The soreness you get from calf raises to failure is intense.
Thanks for another awesome video, John! Quick question, would you say doing calf raises in a seated leg press (I'm thinking of the pin loaded ones where the plate moves, but I guess it's equally applicable to all leg presses) is equivalent to doing a donkey calf raise, or is there some difference I'm missing? And if they are different, would you say that it's a significant enough difference to try and finagle a donkey raise setup?
yea bent knee= more soleus
My gym has no donkey raise. Creative smith rack may be possible.
but i found using the standing calf raise if you just reposition to on your heels you can to tibialis raises while still having the weight on your shoulders. Not the same, but adds some resistance
Mountaincalves1 back at it again.
Could you please give tips on how to grow calves with minimal equipment? I’m working out from home with just a lower end barbell, 170ish lbs of usable plates, and dumbbells 5-35. I would really love to know what you suggest to do to build greater calves!
hi John, thanks for this video....excellent content in your channel. how many sets of calf exercise do you recommend?
4
That gym has great equipment
hi mountaindog, thx again for the video. I was born with clubfeet if u know it and got some surgeries for that and it really limited my ankle mobility, are these exercies also beneficial with limited range of motion or u think it's not worth the trouble then?
they need your workouts on a titantron in gyms...thanks
Yes!!!!
Agree 100%
Calves everyday but - leg day !
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Did you ever like training chest/back together, John or too much?
My calves are 17 now but after I broke both achilles about 2 years ago they were 14. I do 10 sets of standing calf raises toes straight and 2 sets toes in 2 sets toes out twice a week. They seem to have gotten stuck so I need to change something up but am afraid of heavy weight with them since those achilles popped. Do you think I should try to get heavier? I normally do 50-20 reps per set.
Man I wish I heard the part of gradually increasing the days you work your lower leg. Right out of the gate I started doing these every training session and although I noticed massive progress, I eventually started to over train/not get enough rest and my Achilles tendon would hurt when my knee went far beyond my feet. For example, very deep front squats. I hope someone else reads this and starts slow. Avoid going all in immediately.
Can you please show us a good calve workout with the average equipment you see in a gym. I've never seen either one of those. Thanks and thank you for the great content like always
standing raise and tibia work, I just did a video showing tibia alternatives
Wizard Merlin I agree. I wish my gym had a donkey calf machine
Do toe presses on a leg press machine it packs the mass on my calves
@@orangeslice316 use hack squat machine bro
@Robert Spies that's what I like to do
John, big fan here. Thank you so much for your incredible content. Can you suggest any alternative for people without the tibialis machine, please?
I have an exercise index video on calves that show some cool alternatives or it might just be a straight calve workout
Found it! I'll definitely try the band exercise. Thanks a lot!
I'll link it here for others to see
czcams.com/video/p01_HiQHCfc/video.html
dude you have the sickest calves on youtube!!!
thank you!
Compare to today's Olympians...its like they dont build them anymore
Antoine Vaillant has some like 22" calves, trained by mountaindog :p
jason genova
Edward Wojcik
Have You ever seen Jay Cutlers Legs or Dorian Yates Legs ?
Thank u so much sir, u have great calves
Hi JM, I have bought your GamaBomb program, and I am loving it, but my calves is by far my weak point! Is it fit for a higher frequency with hitting my calves in that program?
absolutely!!
John, do you recommend training calves on socks to get up higher on the toes? I do this every time and I felt a great contration/squeeze at the top.
sometimes, but heavy weight can make my feet sore when I do that
Great video and i really needed this tip cause my calves been stuck on 19 3/4 inches forever
He's got quads for calves!
I went too hard on calves after not really working them in awhile, was just feeling good on leg day and I literally was walking around like a velociraptor and had to take a day off work , Like mountain dog says "YOU WILL BE CRIPPLED " ... #Fact
20 inches?! those are the size of my arms! even bigger if anything!!!
Arnold had 19 inches
@@kristianfrilander9350 Um 19 or 20 inch calves aren't humanly possible unless you are half bear...
@@kristianfrilander9350 are u crazy ? Arnold's armvwas 22 or 23 inch
@@devarora9526 it's 19-20", depends on where you get the information from
@@kristianfrilander9350 22 inches for sure bro . Search again !
Hi John , I like to work my calves in the beginning of my leg day after a quick warm up. Would it be better to work the calves at the end or half after a set or 2 of legs or like I do it in the beginning.
Thank you and as always I like your video. Sly
John what do you think start middle or end of the work out ?
And i thought my arms were big at 18 inches, now ur calves make me feel tiny man
Thanks for another video! Im doing 6 x a week calves now and I have seen a big difference on them. One question Mr.Meadows how many reps should we do I heard we should do more reps for calves like 20 or more whats your opinion?
i like rep ranges from 8 to 15 generally
francisco silva and to add on to what John said maybe at the end of the set strip the weight down 40% or so and just rep out 25+ to force a little more blood in there.
Alright thank you Mr.Meadows👌
Thanks for advise Tim yes sometimes I do that I do drop sets at the end to push more blood to my calves 💪
i think you forgot to tell everyone one small thing thats crtical...do not bounce when working calves...work the muscle, dont be spring up and down, thats not working the calves...almost everyone in the gym i see working calves are bouncing and not stretching and actually working the calves when trying to lift any weight
You are absolutely right. He actually says not to bounce at 5.10
never seen this machine any gym. can this exercise replace something else?
What about foot placement? Toes pointed in, pointed out or pointed straight ahead?
you talk about feet position when working the Gastroc. Do those words of wisdom apply, when working the soleus. When trng the Gatroc is it good to hold for 30 sec in the stretch
My stinking gym won't invest in a regular standing calf machine never mind the rest specialized kind. I am reduced to work only on a leg press and standing dumbbell. :(
Luke Swolewalker. I'm forever grateful 🙏
I’d love to know the gym he works out at
Hey MountainDog1 Can i buy that machine you use to workout your calf using your toes going up wards
I get pain for days every time and this mean I should do only 1-2times?
I detatched my left calf around 2011. Is there anything other than surgery to fix this?
I'm guessing not.
I learned it was most likely due to deficiencies so I started minerals and extensive supplementation along with a few different collagens such as bone broths and a custom engineered snake collagen.
where is the link for the alternative calf workouts if we dont have that machine?
you have absolutely envious calves man. They are insane
On a side note,
What do you think about jump rope for calves(some cardio as well)?
very good, but you still have to do exercises that stretch them
mountaindog1 thanks. Yeah I know, I like jumping rope 10mins two times a week and also I add in 2-3 days of seated and standing work for calves with some tibia work as well.
If so juice with the dog. Then we train. Real talk it takes time for some. I got lazy with mine to and had good genetics. They got weak . Inverted calf raises were my favorite
whats that calf raise machine called mountaindog1, the one u did ur second set with(not the donkey calf)? Precor used to sell em, i cant find em anymore.....i can see how it would be more effective than just the standing calf raises....
not sure, its a little uncomfortable on the neck
How would I who has fused ankles do a calve workout?
Sadly most gyms don't even have the first machine and I don't see how I can substitute for it that isn't completely inconvenient to use
Edit: nevermind
I just do that standing on sth and lifting my toes like a superset it burns
You said to train the calves every day .
On Monday I do a chest day so when to work on the calves before I practice on my chest or after I finished
How long should I wait/rest between sets?
John will you get some of those cool shirts back in your store anytime soon? There is only one currently.
which one?
Some of the shirts you wear in your videos, arent those ones you used to sell?
What do you think about the leg press for calves?
i love toe presses
Yo I live in LA and those bodybuilding gyms with these type of machines are no longer here. All these commercial gyms have taken over and replaced with treadmills
My calves are extremely small! Unfortunately, my gym doesn't have any machine for calves. Is there a way I can train these calves with free weights?
David,
From Africa.
Hey sir I hope you are doing wonderful! I’ve followed you for a long time now.
my question about calves is how many times I should do them, they are not as bad as the used to be but still not where I want them to be, I’ve been training for 12 years now i have my physique where I wanted and I don’t take any enhancement drugs only eat great Whole Foods which is the base for a great body I just don’t see my calves where I want them and I train them hard as fuck three times a week one day rest in between, I do low reps for the gastrocnemius and high reps for the souleus but I don’t know if I am doing this right or not or if I should change something. I’m more than willing to take them to the next level even if I can’t walk because of the pain but I want them fuckin huge. Sir if you could give me some advise would be great
4x a week
Your muscles are huge and ripped, very impressive calves and I love your vascularity! 😘💕💪
Ew
Why don’t my gym have all these crazy ass machines
Walking everyday for well over an hour dieting for liss cardio blew them up a few inches over 16weeks and -35lbs
Steven Blackford your calves grew “a few inches” in 16 weeks? Yeah, ok 👌🏻
Bullshit, Steven... people who hike the Pacific crest Trail don’t get bigger calves, no one gets bigger calves from walking; not a single person on the planet ever has gotten bigger calves from walking.
Tibia Dorsi Calf Machines for a home gym aren’t expensive.