calves?

[goodlifting]

^^ hmm what about over training?

i was always told that the muscles in the calves are constantly load bearing throughout the day. so to get them to grow you have to work the hell out of them every time you train.

[stevey_6t9]

i was always told that the muscles in the calves are constantly load bearing throughout the day. so to get them to grow you have to work the hell out of them every time you train.

mm yeah but so are muscles like your quads and glutes but training them everyday would be counter productive.

[Times Roman]

mm yeah but so are muscles like your quads and glutes but training them everyday would be counter productive.

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calves are STILL muscles like any other in the body. Muscles only grow at rest. The advice seems to be counter intuitive? Maybe we are NOT asking the right questions. Is it possible he is ALREADY over training his calves? Not allowing them to rest properly? Calves do get used constantly.....

[goodlifting]

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calves are STILL muscles like any other in the body. Muscles only grow at rest. The advice seems to be counter intuitive? Maybe we are NOT asking the right questions. Is it possible he is ALREADY over training his calves? Not allowing them to rest properly? Calves do get used constantly.....

i meant every training day, not EVERYday. thats my bad. i did treat the calves like every other muscle and didn't train them more than twice a week. within the months that i have been training them every workout they have definitely gotten bigger. but im only training 4 days a week.

it absolutely makes sense to say that one would be overtraining the calves by working them every training day if you were to put them in the same catagory as quads or glutes. but walking around during the day i don't feel like the quads and other leg muscles are quite fired like the calves.

therefore, i think calves need to be destroyed a bit more to get them to grow. this is only a theory and i think everyone may react favorably with other techniques.