FLEXONLINE.COM.AU | FLEX 105“I don’t train calves often, but when I do, I kill them.
Pretty much how I built them was centred around
the standing calf raise machine, but now I do more
seated calf raises. For any calf raise I do, seated
or standing, I make sure the stretch at the bottom
is really focused. A lot of people will just try to move
big weight from A to B and squeeze only at the top.
That’s all fair and well, but you can get so much more
benefit if you stretch at the bottom, too. With all
exercises for calves, I take my feet all the way to the
back of the platform — but not too far because you
still want the leverage to push the weight up. At the
very bottom, I’ll stretch to where my heels are below
my feet and pause it there. That stretch is absolutely
killer. The next day you’re so damn sore.”STRETCH IT
STANDING CALF RAISE