muscles

Quoted post said:

Originally posted by alex001
whats the best thing I cand do to build up calve muscles?

gain weight and walk a lot (G) I have 17.5" calves from the extra weight and walking for years all day long.

Quoted post said:

Originally posted by alex001
whats the best thing I cand do to build up calve muscles?

These muscles need to be worked out extremely hard to get musle gain. This is due to the fact that they support your whole body mass and at times double or more eg if you are jumping.
They tend to go skinny in cyclists because they just transfer your power which is developed in your quads and glutes(bum) to the pedals.
To start with you may want to do single leg calf raises on the edge of a step. Simply stand on one foot with your heel over the edge of the step and the ball of your foot on the step edge. Now lower yourself up and down until you cannot do any more. Then do it again on the other leg. Do three sets on each leg. If your doing more than 20 raises each set put weights in your hand.
If you can get to a gym, do calf raises on a specific machine they have there and stack the weights up.
If you can get to a beach run up sand dunes. This will build your calves up and get you fit at the same time 😄
If you simply want toned calves with a bit of mass the sand running and single calf raises will do. If u want calves like Arnie:eek: or you have naturally skinny calves get to the gym and stack the machine up.

Jonny

what you don't like my method?? (G) it works but I sure don't reccomend it. but as I loose weight my legs do even more as they don't have to move so much weight.

As Johnny was saying, get to the gym or even at home do some calf raises on a bench or somesort.To make your calves bigger you want to drop the weight down a bit so you are in the 12 rep range.Basically when wanting to put on muscle you want to be using the 8-12 rep range(taking into account that the last rep is to failure).

If you are a cyclits tho, you will have trouble putting on muscle.If you are a recreational cyclist who goes to the gym, you have got to eat more than what you are burning in order to gain weight, but if you are a cyclist, who is already eating loads for the training and adding more for weight training and EXTRA as well for an increase in calorie intake.Idealy an athletes/cyclists food content should be split 60-70% Carbohydrates, 20-25% protein,10-15% and 20-30% fat.

If your are looking for adding muscle you need extra protein(on top off food already).Its very hard, even with a huge intake of food to put on muscle when cycling, as when you are training, you metabolism increases,thus burning more when at rest.

If you really want to put on muscle, you must be prepared to put on a bit of fat when doing so, as there is no other way(legally) to put on muscle.Bodybuilding talk about bulking up then shaping when training.It is what it says, working out when eating loads, to put on muscle, and in turn carrying extra fat, THEN shaping, whereby the cut the food intake and get rid of fat to emphasise the muscle for competition.Check out

http://www.discussfitness.com

Post there will give you all the info on weight training/nutrition etc for gaininig muscle.

p.s.Creatine helps aswell.