How can I get my calves bigger?

Question

My entire body responds to exercise but for some reason my calves always lag behind. Any recommended techniques for slow growing calves?

Answer 1

Balance on a street curb on the front part of your feet. Lift yourself up until you are standing on your tip toes then lower yourself back down. This excercise directly works the calves. Hold weights for a stronger workout. You can overdo this if you are not careful and irritate the tendons in your feet.

Answer 2

There are exercises specifically for the calves, but depending on your body structure & muscle/tendon type you may only be able to do so much. I'm a person who has long, lean calves. I can exercise them till the cows come home but can only firm them up; they won't bulge out. Proof of this is that some body builders have to actually have to have implants in order to get the look necessary to win competitions. My problem is even worse since I have large thighs that respond quickly to excercise and that makes it look even more disportionate.

Answer 3

My calves got really nicely developed when I was walking on a regular basis with a friend who walks a lot faster than I do. If you walk as fast as you possibly can.....so fast that, if you went any faster, you'd have to break into a jog.....it really seems to isolate those muscles. I found it to work much better than jogging or running, which seemed to develop my quads but didn't do much for the calves.

Answer 4

Do lots of calve raises with heavy weights.

Answer 5

one good calf exercise:
1. start standing with you feet together
2. push up as high as you can on the balls of your feets
3 slowly come back down

it'll work a lot better and you can go much faster if you don't put any weight on your heels when you come down.

Answer 6

Try standing on something like a stair that you can stand on the front half of your foot and the back half hangs off. Slowly lower yourself using just your ankles, then slowly raise yourself up as high as you can go.(you can hold on to something for balance.) Do a lot of reps or hold dumbbells as you do it.

Answer 7

calve raises witht he heaviest weight u can handle. this muscle group is very stubborn

Answer 8

play soccer or u can do a stair exercises on ur tip toes and it really works out ur calfs.

Answer 9

when you walk, walk on your toes, not your whole foot. it puts stress on the calf and builds the muscles in them.

Answer 10

hi-heels silly..........lift up on toes use stairs also and use toes for that too