Why Athletes NEED To Train Their Calves

[@GarageStrength]

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[@saksham79]

Do a reaction on mario rios saying calve size don't matter

[@heyman373]

He said increasing strength calf increase athletism not the size itself.

[@saksham79]

@@heyman373 he said both

[@heyman373]

@@saksham79 size is only a causation of getting stronger. Train for strength, size will follow.

[@evooff]

Who is this random noob and why should anyone care about what he says?

[@IzThatit]

Black people genetically have smaller calfs but significantly more explosive strength because of the type of muscle fiber.

[@arjayavon7250]

😂😂😂 My calves are more stubborn for me than lower abs.. I'm glad to be hearing this

[@grass99-he6si]

My upper abs are way more stubborn than my lower abs. My lower abs are always visible but my upper abs are only visible when flexing

[@knightmarechimp]

I've been obsessed with calf training since rupturing my achilles, great vid!

[@arjayavon7250]

wow.. I respect your comeback after an Achilles injury.. that's really hard to come back from.. you're a beast! Keep it up!

[@drip369]

People often go by bodybuilding principals for their calves not realizing the muscle fiber types that dominate the calves which is why I believe loaded carries of all kinds as well as landmine training on your toes will build much bigger calves more quickly but this video isn't about building the size. I just know people will make the joke that dad's have calves fat men have calves and forget that strongman competitors have calves so I just wanted to point out the value of carrying heavy things in a wide variety of styles

[@larsenconditioning6742]

Everyone that have asked me i told them the best way to grow the calves, is buy a weighted vest and go for long walks with it everyone who is overweight gets to have big calves for that reason. Big calves isnt any where near genetically dependent as ppl think.

[@jean-pierre9698]

Lmao calves are mostly slow twitch muscle fibre type what are you talking about

[@WideAwakeHuman]

@@jean-pierre9698lmao you sound like someone that learned a few new words but has no idea how it actually works

[@ralphmelvin1046]

Yes week caves can ruin your athleticism and it's very frustrating

[@stepheningebrand1006]

This is awesome! I am a high school strength coach and I will borrow these exercises for my athletes!

[@kingausar7157]

As a child I wanted to dunk ASAP. And I thought big calves was what I needed. And so I did calf raises consistently from 4th grade through 12th😂🤣

[@Nothing.T]

did it work 😀

[@sambsialia]

Rocky and Tyson both used a 300lbs heavy bag to grow punching power. Imo, heavy heavy bag training promotes calf drive as does jump rope. Also, I practice scything and proper technique requires calf activation. I would like you to hear you comment on heavy heavy bag training and scythe mowing.

[@GarageStrength]

100% agree with heavy bag work and the rope! I have only ever used a scythe 3 times and would need to experiment more.

[@Bombsuitsandkilts]

Have you ever tried heavy sleds with an assisted start. Pick a weight just above what the athlete could push from a dead stop, one person pulls and the other pushes and once the sled is going one of them drops off and the athletes has to drive as far as possible

[@JabarisFitnessChannel]

I'm glad I don't have small calves. Still watch the video though. Great content!

[@mcchoco1019]

Small calves in general means long tendon and mean explosive power , look horse frog cricket and for sure cats or other animal who are powerful or athletic , the key is to have powerfull legs and glutes hips and small calves with big tendon and I promise u my calves are skinny but nobody with big calves are agile and explosive like us, but yes that more fragile , and it’s always like that , a powerfull race bike or car will be more fragile than a regular car , big cats are very powerfull and athletic but they can be hurt more easily than hyena for exemple

[@home-grownphysiquesbylesowen64]

HI Dane B-W front foot raised split-squat bent-leg calf raise

[@darrylzzz]

Can't wait to try these

[@ozabreu5875]

I'm speechless!!? Ty so much!!!

[@parhamlivari360]

Downhill skiing is underrated for building calves.

[@wraystv3054]

Great video

[@drhjhulsebos]

I happen to possess the world's largest posterior tibialis

[@guillermoValdez369]

I have noticed many great athletes, especially combat having small caves, do you think they are leaving athletiscm on the table?

[@gaelr.s7123]

Small calf insertions = bigger tendons that produce more force

[@guillermoValdez369]

@@gaelr.s7123 doesn't that go against the advice in the video?

[@joalvarado8506]

@@gaelr.s7123That’s a myth. Phil Heath has high calf insertions, but he doesn’t have small calves. Stop defending leg day skippers.

[@slick1908]

@@joalvarado8506 not really a myth, people with good calves will never understand. Calves are the muscle I prioritize yet they are just a bit over 15 inch. my arms are like 16.5 inches

[@gaelr.s7123]

@@joalvarado8506 You misunderstood, but i also didnt write my comment correctly. I meant that high calf insertions = bigger tendons that can produce more force. Im not defending "leg day skippers", i just stated a fact. Ps: to bring up a bodybuilder in a thread that is about ATHLETIC performance isnt appropiate, sure, hipertrophy is important to have good performance, but it shouldnt be the main priority for the athlete.

[@Gojimaru]

I've never seen a world class sprinter or a basketball player with huge calves.

[@muhammadtyson8676]

Its more about strength and force than size

[@Gojimaru]

@@muhammadtyson8676 I know but look at the title.

[@muhammadtyson8676]

@@Gojimaru yeah bro its clickbait

[@jamesambrosini2026]

I am making progress using the sled with wheels. My ankles , knees and calves are getting stronger and pain is fading away coming off a Achilles rupture. Thanks to you and knees over toe 😂guy I have a clear way to train PROPERLY!😊

[@parhamlivari360]

I do have big calves. It's allot of genetics involved but with training they've got en larger.

[@donnymcme]

Call those the SUSS-DP Flex - Stationary Unsupported Split-Squat Dorsi/Plantar Flexion

[@DAatDA]

WEAK calves, not SMALL calves

[@chyre2251]

Is it true that training calves will stiffen up your Achilles tendon which will make you less elastic? I always hear this from sprint coaches

[@F-Tier_Physique]

No. Doing full range of motion with a good stretch at the bottom will make you more elastic and faster. A full ROM seated or standing calf raise is basically a weighted stretch for the muscle and tendon. I have 3 Achilles ruptures prior to lifting, they all came from overuse(running too much and not training any calves). After rupturing my Achilles for the third time I actually started lifting and training calves, I am now faster than I ever was. Strength training makes you faster and more resilient, anything else is pure bullshit.

[@jfishman9710]

Gotta add some of these ASAP. Maybe I’ll grow some calves!

[@jackdempsey9346]

Manny Pacquiao has bigger calves at 130 lb and a lot of 250 lb meathead men. He jump ropes, works angles in the boxing ring and sprints . Punching a heavy bag with forward velocity is one of the best things for any athlete but the problem most of these muscle heads that lift a ton of weight is they have no punching power and it look like fool standing in front of a heavy bag so it's never talked about... Just my two cents from an amateur boxer who has huge calves and all's I do is jump rope

[@97Sugars]

tell that to Mario rios

[@powskier]

Actually, if that's just black drain pipe, that's ABS pipe, not PVC.

[@TheDrokon]

Hey GarageStrength, post a picture of your calves at age 21. I'd be willing to bet they're almost the same size as you've got now 20 years later.

[@drip369]

Imagine the pixel quality between them, which isn't going to determine size. You would be better off wagering money if he had recorded it on paper and then would measure again today. I got put on size in my calves in the last six years since I started doing more strongman exercises but go ahead and tell me how they don't change size just because you aren't putting in the work

[@TheDrokon]

@@drip369 My point is that guys with calves the size of this guy, they've had big ass calves their whole lives. His calves look very defined now, and they're most likely stronger but I'd bet they were top 10% in size from the time he was a young man. Calves are like 90% genetics.

[@JayzsMr]

Absolutely true and also more of a negative indicator of athleticism

[@redvex2350]

Maybe call them something like unstable split squat calve extensions( or flextensions)

[@AjaychinuShah]

As well, you know, this immense friction, like in a computer circuit, will transfer the attributes accumulated from today's workout training and remove half your properties. Theory no because it's testable.

[@ImKezo-kq4pq]

I wanna do bodybuilding to build as much muscle as I can naturally(I don't wan a compete though), And focus on strength at the same time, do calisthenics because calisthenics is harder if you're heavier but that's my goal get heavy so my process on calisthenics is slow but I make sure I'm gettin stronger

[@Memesdotcom]

Same tbh

[@joeyhodge5040]

I guess this is kind of an anatomy question but why do you count the tibialis and the soleus as part of the calf when I thought they were more in the shin?

[@wadsworth2351]

I do jump rope. Is that enough for calf strength?

[@ares7909]

Someone show Mario this

[@daxfit3]

“Gastrocs for show, soleus for GO!”

[@lukathecoach2]

Jon Jones :)

[@nobitalulu7067]

Jon jones has smallest calvs in heavyweight mma..also he is one of the best in terms of athletism.

[@james-bx4wr]

Yup. Size does not equal strength

[@wtfudimbo]

​@VisKnightLeanlol no. Plenty of boxers, MMA fighter who are shorter have small calves. Most Africans do. It's not about size. Calves are the easiest thing to grow on the planet if you have the genes for it. Size does not equal strength or athleticism lol. Fucking bodybuilders.

[@F-Tier_Physique]

Because his calves are 80% tendon which is great for being explosive. Growing them huge like a bodybuilder when ur a literal giraffe is super hard. Thinking he doesn't do any jumps or sprints (weighted and unweighed) or any other calf work with his strength and conditioning is a joke.

[@garywilberforce8776]

Exercise name: Bulgarian Calf Raise

[@NetCmurder]

i have an injuried achillies maybe some of this will help

[@Adumbb]

i have a pretty high calf insertion i heard that’s good

[@parisdreams1349]

what if u have flat feet

[@mikir1741]

Guess that makes sens why I'm so fast, but can't slow down for shit

[@JayzsMr]

Why then do the fastest sprinters and highest jusmpers proportionally have very small calves ?

[@Gojimaru]

Because they have very long ligaments in proportion to their muscle bellies. And long ligaments store more energy. Like an elastic band.

[@JayzsMr]

@@Gojimaru this has also been disproven , ligaments don't store energy

[@joalvarado8506]

Both sprinters and jumpers need to be as light as possible, so they are skinny in general. And explosive athletes tend to rely on their achilles tendon when moving, which is the opposite of what you want to do for calf growth. The achilles tendon is one of the strongest tendons in the body.

[@Gojimaru]

@@JayzsMr Tendons my bad. I meant tendons.

[@tamp4x]

top long distance runners (northeast africans) have small calves though, they are another form of athletic. Although put them on a bike for any distance and they do not perform well

[@GarageStrength]

Soleus more so

[@SolRC]

PVC pipes also available at your local mom and pop hardware store🤙

[@richardpanini971]

Well then, explain Leon Edwards (most aesthetic man in the universe)

[@jayzm7749]

Mario Rios been a little to quiet after this came out

[@TheDrokon]

"Like when I did DK and I did him for sets of 20." Ayoooo!

[@GarageStrength]

It was a lot to take... I'll tell ya

[@mead813]

Jump rope. Weighted if necessary.

[@tylergooden2183]

We got some small calves around here. They don’t cause nobody problems. We just wait for them to grow up, usually about two years.

[@DarthTerminatti]

Michael Jordan's calves just entered the chat

[@RT-uc3ef]

I got a calve pump just watching this

[@backroomserklärt]

[@beeefstick]

The best thing that ever happened to my calves was barefoot running.

[@kubber3752]

Mario rios is angry

[@BalthazarDiaz-w5m]

Small calves is why Jones Jones can never be GOAT.

[@KeastKannegaard]

So what are good benchmarks for calf strength? And can i replace pogo jumps with something like the karate bladed stance, and shuffle around like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZuQlqt7q9WgmKs ?

[@angelarballo4478]

You wouldn't want to train my calves by working on the pendulum steps. Pendulum stepping should be trained through working on coordination. To train your calves for footwork, just jump rope and find other similar plyometric exercises, especially ones that train stability as well.

[@Starcraft-m9l]

Ok this is rubbish any basketball sprinter or boxer kickboxer almost all sports that are athletic need you to have small calves if you don’t they adapt your body to their demands along with smaller calves and small calves are better for athletic performance any nba basketball player will have small calves i dare you to check

[@BlockBusta_JJ]

Bodybuilders☕️

[@basicmeme1040]

Dont big calves slow down sprinting. Hence why most nfl players have smaller calves

[@GarageStrength]

Not lineman…

[@basicmeme1040]

@GarageStrength even lineman do. All the fast lineman, Chris jones quinnen aaron etc have small calves in proportion to their thighs.

[@Bigman.I.S.]

on my football team mostly everyone has decent size or big calves tho

[@LiberatedMind1]

Large calves are hard to handle, they moo too much.

[@hi5bell]

Swole 🦵🏼 👕 👀

[@claudioaburtocarrasco1275]

Tool😂

[@chrism1555]

any good exercises build endurance in calves? My R calve cramped badly 15 min into a slow jog so thinking need build some endurance fibers in soleus/gastroc. txs