Calves

[saudades]

Hmmm...are you sure you don't have the muscles mixed up? When you do standing calf raises, that mostly hits the gastro, not the soleus. The soleus is the muscle underneath the gastro. I'm not sure how you could only be getting the soleus when doing standing calf raises.

 

[Flexmaster]

Hmmm...are you sure you don't have the muscles mixed up? When you do standing calf raises, that mostly hits the gastro, not the soleus. The soleus is the muscle underneath the gastro. I'm not sure how you could only be getting the soleus when doing standing calf raises.

c'mon bro, gimme the benefit of the doubt...LOL nope, not mixed up at all brother. i feel it in the gastroc. about 25% when doing standing calves, the other 75% is soleus. and i am definately not going too heavy either...i have done this for 17-20 reppers when i was trying high reps for them. i did this consistently for 5 months and they didn't grow a fraction of an inch. i really have done almost everything for them except site inj. w/ aas or seo. every kind of training i am almost sure i have tried for them but they refuse to grow. i will try the thing Big A suggested earlier and see how that works. i have super high calfs,so i am assuming this is the problem.

 

[BillTheButcher]

Good read. Never had a problem growing calves. Born with good legs, bad upper body

 

[Big A]

so my real question is this...my dominating muscle in my calves is the soleus, the gastroc is VERY behind. i have always trained calves doing standing calf raises but the soleus is what gets sore afterward. so by using syntherol in the gastroc. would i be able to bring the level of develpment of my gatsroc up to the point where when i do calves i am working mostly the gastroc and not the soleus?

Correct.