The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

You guys mean to tell me these are probably implants


Oh, and interesting about the other info, don’t know if I’ll ever need to know but hey, information is information.

 

Those would bug me lol not proportional

 

I usually wander around looking a dudes calves

 

Not for me brah.

Uh no.

Vomiting hurts my gains

 

Sounds about right

 

So I’m not the only weird one that has taken a calf selfie? ‍♂️

 

It's only weird if you didn't. Lots of "big" dudes at my gym are scared to wear shorts cause they all skip leg day.

 

This guy owns the calves gang

 

Easiest way to cut bro.

 

We need more boobs and less calves in here.

 

"Calves" "Natural" LOL OK. More oil in that fucker than Exxon Valdez before it let loose into the ocean.

 

That quote with the pic is dumb too. Calf size is highly genetic. 80-90% of the muscle composition that makes up the soleus muscle is slow twitch muscle fiber that has half the growth rate of a predominantly fast twitch muscle(group). You can’t change the amount of muscle fibers, can only grow what you have.


There is also a bunch of data on differences between where it attaches to the Achilles heel (high insertion/low insertion) and how that determines speed, body leanness etc.

 

I’m that guy who was born without calves. It’s quite comical. I have loooong shins which adds to the effect.

Even when I was fat they were pencils. My friends told me I look like a “buffalo riding an ostrich”.

And no, I don’t skip leg day.

 

Haha that's the homie Julian. Knew him way before his social media blew up.

 

Great person, great IG role model, just don't claim you can achieve that look "natty" GTFO

 

He’s the king of fuckery

@ThunderCookies is the prince

 

He’s not natty either ? Man who the fuck is natty these days?

 

Since we're talking about calf size, it is genetic, but you can get them to grow. It just takes A LOT of volume and A LOT of time. It help to do both bent knee, and straight knee variations, to make sure you're getting the Soleus and the Gastroc. Gastroc work requires an almost locked out knee to target it.

I could never get my calves to grow, even though I was loading up 600lbs on the Leg Press machine and doing calf raises on that once a week.

I've been doing 8-10 sets of 10-15 reps, 3-4 times per week of Single Leg Straight Calf Raises with a 45 lb dumbbell on a step, for the last 8 months, and am only now seeing a significant difference in size.

 

No one that looks like they lift