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post 1688196733 08-11-2023, 05:48 PM
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Anyone grow their calves from sticks to cows? Srs

Took my calves from 14ish to 15.5 in about a year, but I'm 6'3" so I don't think they'll look good until they're around 17".

Anyone have any inspiring stories?
post 1688196933 08-11-2023, 05:52 PM
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I think it's mostly genetic unfortunately. My calves are bigger than my arms and I've never trained them. My dad is 65 and has like 21" veiny calves lol. But if what you are doing isn't working, I'd try something else... I've heard people say they have to train them like every day to get them to grow
post 1688197013 08-11-2023, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted By bsrkoacar2⏩
I think it's mostly genetic unfortunately. My calves are bigger than my arms and I've never trained them. My dad is 65 and has like 21" veiny calves lol. But if what you are doing isn't working, I'd try something else... I've heard people say they have to train them like every day to get them to grow
yeah i been working on them for a while... beat that dead Horse
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post 1688197053 08-11-2023, 05:56 PM
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post 1688197113 08-11-2023, 05:58 PM
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Genetics are a big one with calves. You can definitely get solid calves by working them out a lot with high high volume.

I always had huge calves from soccer plus genetics. At one point though after I stopped playing soccer I decided to do calves 4x a week with absurd volume. Usually 6-8 sets of 30-40 reps with light weight so I can feel the entire movement. My calves were scary big and as wide as my quads when pumped. It looked kind of ridiculous.
post 1688197343 08-11-2023, 06:03 PM
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yeah,its genetics.my calves are toned and arent sticks but my upper body dwarves my lower.best thing is running up stairs and calve raises i think.
post 1688197403 08-11-2023, 06:04 PM
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post 1688197483 08-11-2023, 06:06 PM
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Genetics but I notice multiple long sessions on the stair master helps
post 1688197973 08-11-2023, 06:19 PM
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actually yeah brah.

at the start of 2012 when on deployment i wanted to lose abt 45-50lbs so id lift a few times a week and for cardio id run or walk an incline on the treadmill maybe 4 miles a day on avg w/slope set at 15 or whatever the max is & speed between 3.1ish to 6.5ish.

i guess that was around 8,400 steps a day for 120 of the 140ish days that year before i came home in mid-may so maybe just over a million steps in all or at least 800k + when you guess that maybe 1/3 of it was running so each steps then might have been 5-6ft instead of 2.5ft walking.

was gone oct-dec in the months prior but didnt start losing weight til Jan but lemme tell you my calves were ginormous as fuk. ive always had bigger calves than usual but dayum.
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post 1688198543 08-11-2023, 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted By friesbruh⏩
actually yeah brah.

at the start of 2012 when on deployment i wanted to lose abt 45-50lbs so id lift a few times a week and for cardio id run or walk an incline on the treadmill maybe 4 miles a day on avg w/slope set at 15 or whatever the max is & speed between 3.1ish to 6.5ish.

i guess that was around 8,400 steps a day for 120 of the 140ish days that year before i came home in mid-may so maybe just over a million steps in all or at least 800k + when you guess that maybe 1/3 of it was running so each steps then might have been 5-6ft instead of 2.5ft walking.

was gone oct-dec in the months prior but didnt start losing weight til Jan but lemme tell you my calves were ginormous as fuk. ive always had bigger calves than usual but dayum.
Nice, so your calves grew even in a caloric deficit?
post 1688199743 08-11-2023, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted By DeadlyStriker⏩
Genetics are a big one with calves. You can definitely get solid calves by working them out a lot with high high volume.

I always had huge calves from soccer plus genetics. At one point though after I stopped playing soccer I decided to do calves 4x a week with absurd volume. Usually 6-8 sets of 30-40 reps with light weight so I can feel the entire movement. My calves were scary big and as wide as my quads when pumped. It looked kind of ridiculous.
Will try this lol
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Originally Posted By SazabiBrah⏩
Will try this lol
Yea seriously they grow from super high reps done with full ROM. I switched between the seated calf machine (one day) and the smith machine with a step up (the other day) so I could get a full stretch. Sometimes I'd go to the stairs and do 10 reps each step switching how my toes were facing and get a gnarly pump since there was like 12+ steps.

Good luck...
post 1688200243 08-11-2023, 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted By SazabiBrah⏩
Nice, so your calves grew even in a caloric deficit?
sure did.

quicks stats: fattest part of my then-muffin top went from 38.5in to 32.5 (something like 6 inches off). well i guess its like 4-7lbs per inch off waist or something so i am spit-balling here but i went down like 42lbs exactly x 3500 / 140days was like an average of -1050 calories a day or a net of about +700 cals per day assuming BMR of 1700.

prolly ate 2k calories but worked out or walked off i guess that would be 1300 cals. blew my mind bc that showed even in a 1k cal deficit some parts would still grow so if calves could, why not chest, back, arms etc but unfortunately despite all that I did not see any measurable gains of my dink.

watch some miscer though come in here and try to split hairs like uh uh sir ur BMR should have been exactly 1713.473 xyz.

fuk outta here.
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post 1688200853 08-11-2023, 07:35 PM
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Notice how OP didnt post pics

You cant grow calves, its genetics. OP just got fatter
post 1688200993 08-11-2023, 07:39 PM
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I know if ur a fat fuk like the guy above and then u walk around for a few years then cut down you’ll have big calves
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As most have already said, calf size is wholly genetic. If your calves are naturally small, any growth you think you see is either due to increased vascularity (from weight loss) or just a pump from the gym.

The only way to beat the genetic barrier is through steroids, and even then If you genetically have high calf insertions, steroids are not going to give you the fuller low calf insertion like asians have.
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Originally Posted By Maestro⏩
As most have already said, calf size is wholly genetic. If your calves are naturally small, any growth you think you see is either due to increased vascularity (from weight loss) or just a pump from the gym.

The only way to beat the genetic barrier is through steroids, and even then If you genetically have high calf insertions, steroids are not going to give you the fuller low calf insertion like asians have.
Larry wheels is one of the strongest men alive and got jacked AF and even he still has poverty calves

As you said, anyone saying theyve had good calf progress is lying/delusional AF. Post me one calf transformation IRL or from the internet, I'll wait
post 1688201663 08-11-2023, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted By PrincessJafar⏩
Larry wheels is one of the strongest men alive and got jacked AF and even he still has poverty calves

As you said, anyone saying theyve had good calf progress is lying/delusional AF. Post me one calf transformation IRL or from the internet, I'll wait
It depends entirely on how bad your calf insertions are. A lot of black guys have small muscle bellies and calf insertions towards their fooking knee. So yea you can't get some huge bulbous low insertion calves from training.

Alex Hormozi made his calves look huge despite his high calf insertions and poverty genetics. inb4 "but steroids!" He just started working out his calves at the beginning of every workout.

From this



To this which is respectable

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Originally Posted By DeadlyStriker⏩
It depends entirely on how bad your calf insertions are. A lot of black guys have small muscle bellies and calf insertions towards their fooking knee. So yea you can't get some huge bulbous low insertion calves from training.

Alex Hormozi made his calves look huge despite his high calf insertions and poverty genetics. inb4 "but steroids!" He just started working out his calves at the beginning of every workout.
just looked him up, they look the same lol
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Nobody in history has ever grown their calves noticeably from lifting. It has just never happened.

It is 100% genetic.

Occasionally someone frauding on the internet will claim that they did, but they always disappear from sight when asked for before and after pictures.
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Blessed calf crew.

Before and after spoon pics or you lying. No one grows calves. You either have them or you don’t.


You won’t post spoon pics because you lying
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Originally Posted By Kewbrah⏩
Nobody in history has ever grown their calves noticeably from lifting. It has just never happened.

It is 100% genetic.

Occasionally someone frauding on the internet will claim that they did, but they always disappear from sight when asked for before and after pictures.
It's a muscle. It can grow. That's like me saying I can't have big biceps because I have horrific arm genetics (i do). You're thinking about insertions mainly.

Most people don't train calves though, and when they do...they do like 12 reps for 3 sets. You have to absolutely merk your calves into oblivion and you can get some solid calf muslces for whatever your insertions are.

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Originally Posted By DeadlyStriker⏩
It's a muscle. It can grow. That's like me saying I can't have big biceps because I have horrific arm genetics (i do). You're thinking about insertions mainly.

Most people don't train calves though, and when they do...they do like 12 reps for 3 sets. You have to absolutely merk your calves into oblivion and you can get some solid calf muslces for whatever your insertions are.
I've seen people grow spaghetti arms into monster arms. I've seen people with terrible bicep insertions grow big arms, just not nearly as big as people with good insertions. I've seen people transform their entire bodies except for their calves. I've seen Dennis Wolf do all the insane things required to be a worthy Olympia contender, but have to stand on stage with little stick calves.

And in 30 years of going to the gym I've regularly huge guys come up to me and ask what my calf routine is and I've literally never trained calves.
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Originally Posted By DeadlyStriker⏩
It's a muscle. It can grow. That's like me saying I can't have big biceps because I have horrific arm genetics (i do). You're thinking about insertions mainly.

Most people don't train calves though, and when they do...they do like 12 reps for 3 sets. You have to absolutely merk your calves into oblivion and you can get some solid calf muslces for whatever your insertions are.

Did you really just post a 7 day transformation video, fukin lol. Not even gonna watch
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Originally Posted By Kewbrah⏩
I've seen people grow spaghetti arms into monster arms. I've seen people with terrible bicep insertions grow big arms, just not nearly as big as people with good insertions. I've seen people transform their entire bodies except for their calves. I've seen Dennis Wolf do all the insane things required to be a worthy Olympia contender, but have to stand on stage with little stick calves.

And in 30 years of going to the gym I've regularly huge guys come up to me and ask what my calf routine is and I've literally never trained calves.
It's called muscle insertions. There are a ton of people with good muscle insertions that have small calves from not lifting.

Saying dennis wolf has stick calves is like saying this guy on the left has stick arms. Whatever muscle insertions you have, you can grow the muscle. It's not that hard to understand.

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Originally Posted By PrincessJafar⏩
Did you really just post a 7 day transformation video, fukin lol. Not even gonna watch
"Calves are genetics! You cant' grow your calves!"

Guy in video grows his calves .5in in 7 days.

BUT BUT BUT!
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It's genetic. I don't train calves and mine are 19". Same as my arms.
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