forcing calf growth

[Jonnyg419]

I have heard that if you over train a certain muscle for a limited amount of time it can be beneficial, I am looking to bulk right now and I want to put a lot of emphasis on calf development, if I were to overtrain them for 3 weeks, working them 5 days a week even when they are still sore, does that actually help, or is that a bunch of bologna??

[Times Roman]

remembber, muscle only grows at rest. overtraining does not provide the necessary rest for growth. it may actually detrimental if training every day and damaging muscle fiber and not giving it a chance to regrow.

You can go 2x a week on calves if you want.

[Jonnyg419]

yeah I feel you man, and I totally agree that muscles grow from rest and proper nutrition, but I have heard that once or maybe twice a year you can force new growth by intentionally overtraining a muscle group, I was just wondering if anyone has tried this with good results.

[Jonnyg419]

yeah I feel you man, and I totally agree that muscles grow from rest and proper nutrition, but I have heard that once or maybe twice a year you can force new growth by intentionally overtraining a muscle group, I was just wondering if anyone has tried this with good results.

[Turkish Juicer]

I have heard that once or maybe twice a year you can force new growth by intentionally overtraining a muscle group[/B], I was just wondering if anyone has tried this with good results.

Don't believe everything you hear, especially from bros.

You can ''intentionally'' overload a muscle group to force for further growth, which should be a part of your lifting regimen at any rate; however, there is vast difference between the terms ''over training'' and ''over loading''.

Never over train, but make sure you overload when you can.

[Jonnyg419]

OK, it is true...sometimes I hear people say some weird stuff, sometimes it sounds good on paper, but application is a totally different story

[ali_baba]

I had chicken legs for a while and did a fair amount of research to try to get them bigger, and have since put an inch on each leg in a year or so. Throughout my research I have found that aside from the regular shocking and good training principles we all know, there are a few tricks that worked for me. When I do calf raises, I rotate my feet a little bit with each rep so they end up something like this /\ || \/. This helps do develop the calf muscle fully all around. Aside from that, the calves grow with high rep workouts, and by high rep I mean thousands of reps (as in walking). They get bigger as you run more and as you get heavier. Hence why runners (who use their calves a lot) and fat people (who are constantly supporting heavy weight) have large calves.

[stpete]

I work them twice a week. Once on arm day w/low reps, heavy as hell. Then again on leg day w/high reps.

[Van_City]

I had chicken legs for a while and did a fair amount of research to try to get them bigger, and have since put an inch on each leg in a year or so. Throughout my research I have found that aside from the regular shocking and good training principles we all know, there are a few tricks that worked for me. When I do calf raises, I rotate my feet a little bit with each rep so they end up something like this /\ || \/. This helps do develop the calf muscle fully all around. Aside from that, the calves grow with high rep workouts, and by high rep I mean thousands of reps (as in walking). They get bigger as you run more and as you get heavier. Hence why runners (who use their calves a lot) and fat people (who are constantly supporting heavy weight) have large calves.

Good tip... And a inch in a year is pretty good !!

[JAB1]

Dont have advice but I will say my calves have actually shrunk since I stopped jumping rope daily, even though Im eating more, lifting heavier, and juicing......so yeah seems like some high rep activity may work

[castiron]

go climb some mountains, with a heavy backpack. seriously, its very effective.