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Calves Workout

1 min
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6 exercises
Bodyweight Calf Raises
Jumping Calf Press
Jump rope
Seated Machine Calf Raises
Standing Barbell Calf Raises
Standing Dumbbell Calf Raises
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Calves Workout
1 min
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6 exercises
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Bodyweight Calf Raises
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Primary muscle group(s):
Calves
  • Stand straight with a tight core and flat back.
  • Keep your hands at your sides or hold on to a wall for balance.
  • Bring your feet to be hip distance apart.
  • Focusing the tension in your calf muscles, slowly raise yourself up on to the balls of your feet.
  • Pause at the top of the movement and slowly return to the starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Calves
  • Stand up straight with your hands at your sides.
  • Keep your back straight and your core tight.
  • Forcefully press off the ground with the balls of both feet.
  • Launch into the air and land softly on the balls of your feet.
  • Focus the tension in the calf muscles, NOT the quadriceps.
  • Repeat.
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves, Hamstrings, Shoulders
  1. Stand with your feet together, arms fully extended with your hands by your sides. This is the start position.
  2. Bend your knees slightly then straighten and push through the balls of your feet while straightening your your knees to jump up spreading your legs to wider than hip width apart.
  3. As you do so, raise both arms out and up in a smooth arc until your hands meet above your head.
  4. As you return to the ground, bring your feet together and your hands back to your sides with your arms fully extended.
  5. Continue without pause for the desired amount of time or repetitions.

This exercise can be performed as a timed exercise, completing as many reps as possible in a set time or, in sets with a fixed number of repetitions per set. To increase intensity, bend your arms slightly as you raise them to engage your biceps and triceps and squeezing them during each rep.

Jumping Calf Press
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Primary muscle group(s):
Calves
  • Stand up straight with your hands at your sides.
  • Keep your back straight and your core tight.
  • Forcefully press off the ground with the balls of both feet.
  • Launch into the air and land softly on the balls of your feet.
  • Focus the tension in the calf muscles, NOT the quadriceps.
  • Repeat.
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves, Hamstrings, Shoulders
  1. Stand with your feet together, arms fully extended with your hands by your sides. This is the start position.
  2. Bend your knees slightly then straighten and push through the balls of your feet while straightening your your knees to jump up spreading your legs to wider than hip width apart.
  3. As you do so, raise both arms out and up in a smooth arc until your hands meet above your head.
  4. As you return to the ground, bring your feet together and your hands back to your sides with your arms fully extended.
  5. Continue without pause for the desired amount of time or repetitions.

This exercise can be performed as a timed exercise, completing as many reps as possible in a set time or, in sets with a fixed number of repetitions per set. To increase intensity, bend your arms slightly as you raise them to engage your biceps and triceps and squeezing them during each rep.

Primary muscle group(s):
Calves, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Secondary:
Abs, Hamstrings, Quadriceps
  1. Hold one rope end in each hand out to your sides with the middle of the rope behind you.
  2. Keep the rope ends even with your hips.
  3. Rotate your wrists to swing the rope up over your head.
  4. As the rope  swings down in front of and towards you, jump over the rope with both feet.
  5. Continue rotating your wrists to swing the rope behind you, back up over your head to repeat.

You can vary the speed, use one leg,alternating legs and even the direction you swing the rope in to increase your stamina and coordination.

Jump rope
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Primary muscle group(s):
Calves, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Secondary:
Abs, Hamstrings, Quadriceps
  1. Hold one rope end in each hand out to your sides with the middle of the rope behind you.
  2. Keep the rope ends even with your hips.
  3. Rotate your wrists to swing the rope up over your head.
  4. As the rope  swings down in front of and towards you, jump over the rope with both feet.
  5. Continue rotating your wrists to swing the rope behind you, back up over your head to repeat.

You can vary the speed, use one leg,alternating legs and even the direction you swing the rope in to increase your stamina and coordination.

Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves, Hamstrings, Shoulders
  1. Stand with your feet together, arms fully extended with your hands by your sides. This is the start position.
  2. Bend your knees slightly then straighten and push through the balls of your feet while straightening your your knees to jump up spreading your legs to wider than hip width apart.
  3. As you do so, raise both arms out and up in a smooth arc until your hands meet above your head.
  4. As you return to the ground, bring your feet together and your hands back to your sides with your arms fully extended.
  5. Continue without pause for the desired amount of time or repetitions.

This exercise can be performed as a timed exercise, completing as many reps as possible in a set time or, in sets with a fixed number of repetitions per set. To increase intensity, bend your arms slightly as you raise them to engage your biceps and triceps and squeezing them during each rep.

Primary muscle group(s):
Calves
  • Stand up straight with your hands at your sides.
  • Keep your back straight and your core tight.
  • Forcefully press off the ground with the balls of both feet.
  • Launch into the air and land softly on the balls of your feet.
  • Focus the tension in the calf muscles, NOT the quadriceps.
  • Repeat.
Seated Machine Calf Raises
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Primary muscle group(s):
Calves
  1. Sitting on a calf raise machine, position your upper thighs under the top pad. The pad should be resting just above your knees.
  2. Place the balls of your feet on the foot plate.
  3. Keeping the balls of your feet in position, lower your heels as far as possible.
  4. Slowly raise your heels as if standing on your toes. Continue as far as possible until you feel a stretch in your lower calves. Hold for a count of one.
  5. Slowly lower your heels back to the starting position and repeat.

If the machine isn't equipped with foot plates, you can use barbell plates placed under the machine to increase your range of motion. Don't

Standing Barbell Calf Raises
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Primary muscle group(s):
Calves
Secondary:
Abs
  1. Set up two weight plates on the ground next to each other. Position a loaded barbell across your trap muscles. Step on to the weight plates with the balls of your feet.
  2. With a tight core and flat back, raise yourself up with your feet only. Pause at the top of the raise.
  3. Slowly lower yourself down but do not touch the ground. Raise yourself back up.
  4. Repeat.
Standing Dumbbell Calf Raises
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Primary muscle group(s):
Calves
  1. Place an exercise step or something similar on the floor in front of you. It should be two or three inches high.
  2. Holding a dumbbell in each hand, place your toes and the balls of your feet on the step. Make sure the arches of your feet are not on the step and your heels are on the floor.
  3. Raise your heels as high as possible by pushing through the balls of your feet and toes while extending your ankles. Hold for a count of one.
  4. Return to the starting position by bending your ankles until you feel a stretch in your calves.
  5. Repeat.
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Calves, Hamstrings
  1. Sit down on a leg press machine and place your legs on the platform directly in front of you at shoulder width.
  2. Lower the safety bars holding the weighted platform  and press the platform all the way up until your legs are fully extended in front of you bot do NOT lock your knees. Your torso and legs should be at a 90degree angle to each other. This is the start position.
  3. Inhaling, slowly lower the platform until your upper and lower legs form a 90-degree angle. Pause for a count of one,
  4. Return to the starting position by pushing through the heels of your feet, engaging your quadriceps. Exhale as you do so.
  5. Repeat.
  6. After completing the desired number of repetitions, make sure you lock the safety pins of the machine before alighting.

Always check to make sure that when you re-rack the weight the platform is securely locked.

Primary muscle group(s):
Calves
  1. Sitting on a calf raise machine, position your upper thighs under the top pad. The pad should be resting just above your knees.
  2. Place the balls of your feet on the foot plate.
  3. Keeping the balls of your feet in position, lower your heels as far as possible.
  4. Slowly raise your heels as if standing on your toes. Continue as far as possible until you feel a stretch in your lower calves. Hold for a count of one.
  5. Slowly lower your heels back to the starting position and repeat.

If the machine isn't equipped with foot plates, you can use barbell plates placed under the machine to increase your range of motion. Don't

Primary muscle group(s):
Calves
Secondary:
Abs
  1. Set up two weight plates on the ground next to each other. Position a loaded barbell across your trap muscles. Step on to the weight plates with the balls of your feet.
  2. With a tight core and flat back, raise yourself up with your feet only. Pause at the top of the raise.
  3. Slowly lower yourself down but do not touch the ground. Raise yourself back up.
  4. Repeat.
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