Comments on: The Wolf Howls – More Work for Calves Without Calf Isolations

By: Jess

Jess — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:43:19 +0000

Great post, an area I’ve never wanted to target but def useful for clients.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:14:47 +0000

In reply to Marcus.

No problem, Marcus! As I had written in my calf raise article, I consider this to be a worthwhile exercise, it’s just that people don’t train it hard enough in terms of using proper tempo and adding enough weight – get to using a total of 150-200 kg of resistance per leg (e.g, 90 kg bodyweight + holding a 60 kg DB while doing one-leg calf raises) and your calves won’t be small anymore. 🙂

By: Marcus

Marcus — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:39:35 +0000

Thanks! I will definitely have to try this. For some reason I have always had trouble building my calves – usually have been doing calf raises with free weights in the past. Maybe this will help.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:50:04 +0000

Funny – I used to work my calves harder and just recently have started again. I’m going to have to reread to fully get that move but I’m sure it will be a good one to try!