Calves are rough. You either have them or you don't. If you don't, the amount of work to make them grow no body wants to Deal with.. I had good calves but tore my left calve bad playing softball and tore my right calve playing alumni soccer. Reason I quit sports. My calves keep popping. But I find the other stuff outside the gym builds the calve more. Running, biking, jumping, playing sports. It seems to help build it full unlike just hammering away at calf raises.

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Posted by lsu777

Lake Charles

Member since Jan 2004

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Posted on 4/15/24 at 8:13 am to bayouvette

maybe but i have seen, and have done so myself, people add tons of mass using Dantes technique.

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Posted by ronricks

Member since Mar 2021

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Posted on 4/15/24 at 8:20 am to bayouvette

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hammering away at calf raises.

Because most people do them incorrectly. Proper calf work is not fun or for faint of heart if you want them to grow.

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Posted by MWP

Kingwood, TX via Monroe, LA

Member since Jul 2013

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Posted on 4/15/24 at 4:19 pm to bayouvette

If jumping built calves, I literally would have bodybuilder calves since jumping rope is kinda a fetish as I grew up boxing and even though I pretty much exclusively train BJJ now will do a boxing routine 3 times a week every morning that includes 10 rounds with 3 rounds of rope. It’s really my only cardio other my jits stuff and doing farmers on a couple of those non boxing days. I mean it’s not like they are toothpicks, it’s just nowhere near my upper leg development and I actually try to train them religiously.

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