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 No.122545

I saw them recently and it got me thinking. Pic related is Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, 46, stage name "El Sevilla", frontman of the "Mojinos Escozíos", an irreverent rock band you know nothing about unless you are Spanish. A cursory examination in fitness terms of this individual reveals the following facts:

-He is borderline obese, due to the effects of a diet rich in protein, complex carbs and saturated fats from legumes, bread and 'embutidos', that is, cured dry meats and sausages such as butifarra, chorizo, jamón (cured ham) which are traditional in his home region of Andalucía, as well as the ingestion of large amounts of alcohol (mainly beer) and tobacco.

-He has a lot of energy to perform often (between 1 and 3 shows a month) and vivaciously at that, given that he is doing this "prancing" walk of his while singing more than half the time he is onstage.

-His calves are proportionally huge. They're larger than his upper arms, and the latter are only large because they are made mostly of fat.

-From the looks of it and his attitude to exercise (case in point: the entire lyrics of "Al Carajo"), he has not touched a barbell in his entire life.

My hypothesis is that his calves are this large because of an adaptation to his trademark "prance" walk on stage while carrying his own excessive weight. Helped by a permanent bulk-like diet, his calves adapted and enlarged. (cont)

 No.122546

File: 7d6ef224c8f6bf4⋯.png (92.74 KB, 251x323, 251:323, 2.png)

So if this guy can get such large calves this way, I don't see why anybody else couldn't. Now of course I'm not advocating for tobacco and beer here, but my takeaway is that prancing while carrying heavy weight and on a bulking diet should result in larger calves.

This "prance" is hard to describe, it's better if you look up one of his shows and click randomly until you see it. I can't come up with a term to describe it in English either but I'm sure there is one. It's like doing small jumps by contracting your calves and extending your forefoot downward. A simpler way would be to jump in place, as if with a jump rope. Since we aren't planning on getting fat, the extra weight would come from a backpack or two filled with around 0.5x your bodyweight in stones, sand, etc. My initial planning would be to do this once or twice a week for 20 minutes at a time.

Thoughts/improvements/bants here.


 No.122557

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All the men in my family have big calves. It's mostly our genetics (perhaps the Scottish highland clans?), but we also do a lot of uphill hiking and sprinting. But when I decide to really work on my calves, I'm going to do donkey calf raises and impress everyone in the gym with my faggotry and calf gains.


 No.122558

Good point anon. It's worth a shot.

I'm not deficient in calf but my theory is that you have to constantly be carrying a lot of weight. For me it's a combo of genetics, being fat, and probably shuffling around instead of normal walking because I grew up an autistic beta.

Also I never get such a good ankle and calf workout as when I go hiking. The rough terrain requires a lot of stability and calf strength to keep you from falling. So maybe a heavy backpack while hiking will help.

I have a friend who was always a skeleton. Then he moved to a place that has a lot of wilderness. His calves aren't huge but they're more developed than before last time I visited him. He's also a DYEL stoner with dad bod now so it's not like he makes sure to get good calf gains.


 No.122560

Fat people have big calves. It doesn't take a scientist to know why.


 No.122563

no encuentro ningun video en el que haga alguna caminata que active las pantorrillas

podrias pasar un video en el que haga la caminata esa?


 No.122564

what is this thread about?


 No.122565

>>122557

>scottish genes

That might be it m8.

I'm lucky because my knees are bigger than a head and my calves are also pretty nice.

I'm not scunttish though.


 No.122571

>>122545

Calves are hard to build because the Achilles tendon is the most powerful tendon in your body so it does a lot of work instead of muscles. To get rid on tendons just train calves as any other part of your body, but in fairly slow tempo (that shouldn't actually be a "but", tempos like 2010 without cheating and steady up/down are somewhat a standard in a good routines if there's one exercise per muscle group for every training day) and with literally few second pauses on the top and bottom of each rep.


 No.122575

>>122545

spain show me your boypussy bitch


 No.122625

>>122564

An incubator for cutting-edge broscience.



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