re: Calf mass advice

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Right. I see most people bouncing a light weight around on the calf raise machine to nowhere near failure. Of course they don’t see results

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This is my #1 with calves. You have to slow down and actually contract the muscle.

Your achilles is so big and powerful, it takes a ton of load off the muscle in explosive calf work. What's productive for me is 3 second negative, pause at the bottom, then squeeze the muscle up. So many people just pogo around off the stretch reflex from the achilles.

And yeah, calves have a significant genetic component, more than most muscles. The best way to maximizing what you've got is rep quality, where each rep is actually using the calf muscle.