Dorian Yates on Calf Training Myths and How to Do It Right 🦵 #shorts

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[tomking]

Dorian was wearing the Jordan 7’s. Those are dope.

[mouthbreatherinc]

There's two types of people: Those with weak tendons in their lower legs have muscular calves. Those with powerful tendons in their lower legs have thin calves. The tendons in the lower leg work like springs. That's why people with thin calves can usually jump much higher and run much faster. In order to grow thin calves for bodybuilding, you have to train very slowly with 100% perfect form so you can bypass that spring mechanic. If you do it too fast, the tendons will move the weight and you will not hit the muscle.

[jameskatu]

Exactly!! Superset em with LegPress but don’t change the weight do the same weight so Heavy Leg Press and Heavy Calve Press with High Reps whether it’s 30-40+kgs(Foot Plate) or 100-500kgs rep it out

[thomasspielman]

A muscle is a muscle. Train your calves the same way you'd train your biceps. People struggle to grow calves because of genetics and because they treat calves as an afterthought and do poor quality training.

[John-loxz]

I got big calves, never trained them except for some running, thank you mom and dad for my genetics 🙏🏻

[johnscott]

Contradictory.. if calves are worked everyday through partial range by walking, in order to stimulate you need to work them through ranges they're not used to, fully stretched and fully contracted. That might mean employing slightly higher reps to sufficiently get at these areas. Plus try and work on a rounded surface, ie. gets easier towards top where calves are weakest, to even out the resistance curve.

[accradata]

Dorian could've had huge calves simply by walking up his front steps. Better to ask him about bicep training.

[joebrown]

I followed Arnold’s advice in terms of high reps lower weight and trained them 7 days a weeks….thats the only thing that needed my calves up and they are genetically my slowest hypertrophic muscle.

[goldeneraever]

I'm not a fan of his overall physique, but the guy had some damn big calves.

[lambchop-bsfy]

Calves and forearms are mostly genetic....extremely hard to improve them

[Innovativephysiquedevelopment]

However, unless you are intending to do a fiber shift, training endurance fiber with strength endurance is the way to go. you dont stimulate endurance fiber with heavy weight. this said, no one is 100 all one type of fiber. do a blend of work for the various types of fibers you have.

[LlewellynBarry]

Well I train mines heavy but high reps, never flat footed, elevated heels and stretching after every sets.

[dmj]

My daughter's tennis coach has some of the best developed calves I've ever seen. He's around 50 years of age. He said he skips rope every day.

[joskyyebo]

Calves are all about genetics. UNFORTUNATELY

[technolus]

Duh, walking on them yiu never go anywhere close to failure.
With wwights you still need to do a few sets close to failure. Other muscles dont have as much endurance under high loads, thus one will usually take a bit more to fully stimulate.

[vicious]

Look at all the casuals who've never won shit give their 2 cents.

[Black-Circle]

The hardest my calves got were by going heavy

[dickieknutz]

These old timer vids are fun, nothing more. In fact, lets just interview hot couch guys about how to get a gladiator physique

[FloridaManMatty]

OR…you could be Mike Matarazzo and just stretch your calves a little bit every day, not do any direct calf exercises, and still end up with 22”+ lower legs!