/fit/ - Fitness, Health, Exercise, Dieting, etc

Skip lots of rope.

Get into thai boxing.

Run barefoot.

Get really fat and then walk around for a few years.

Rucking

>>141312

>Rucking

You mean walking with rucksacks? Ironically I have to do something akin to this every time I go shopping for food, I have to do like a 1.8 mile round trip to do my local foodshopping, and half that 1.8 mile is carrying a 20 kg ~ bag on my back full of tins & shit, and a huge bag of potatoes. I don't think the weight is carried very well in the bag/over my shoulders though because each time I do it's a complete bitch and I sweat like I'm losing blood.

>>141310

>Skip lots of rope.

I used to do that when I did boxing way back! I enjoyed it, but even when I was doing it I don't think my calves were amazing.. I also misplaced my decent rope somewhere, and the one I have isn't great. Don't really fancy skipping inside either, not enough room.

>Get into thai boxing.

Wanted to do this/MMA for years. Never had the money till now but we'll see how long that lasts.

>Run barefoot.

Seriously? I only put on shoes/socks when I have to so I doubt this has any bearing at all..

>Get really fat and then walk around for a few years.

I would only put on weight if it was to increase muscle mass, raw fat is counter intuitive to what I want to be doing, feeling. So, not whilst I still draw breath, really.

I'll probably post a picture of my body some point soon so you guys can see what I mean.

Running

also genetics is a limiting factor so keep that in mind

A mistake I think some people make is doing seated calf raises and nothing else. The seated calf raise works the soleus but not so much the gastrocnemius. The gastrocnemius is what you want to focus on for the impressive appearance of the round "head" of the calf. Only exercises which have an extended knee (as when standing) can emphasize the gastrocnemius. Growing the soleus will eventually push the gastrocnemius out to make it more noticeable, but if you didn't actually grow the gastrocnemius too, that ends up looking weird. Doing lots of squats but very few standing calf raises can have that effect too.

>>141314

I'm talking about RUNNING barefoot. Use your damn calves. Embed related. Also the anon that said rucking has a good idea too.

>>141310

>skip rope

I've heard about the benefits of jumping rope a lot, but whenever I try it, my balls hurt. Like they're jingling up and down painfully, it doesn't work out.

>>141329

wear briefs dummy

do you have an elliptical OP? I use mine on high resistance exclusively and my calves are getting pretty thick from irregular HIIT.

Just do calf raises. Keep constant tension and go for the sweet spot of tension, pace, muscle recruitment, and RoM that makes each rep much more painful than you think it should be. Put some weight on, a vest or in your hands. The way you do determines if it's actually doing something. If you don't feel swollen, painful, tight and pumped, then you aren't doing it right.

It's like forearms. Squeeze the bar as hard as possible and don't let go until it literally falls out of your hands… wait. Squeeze the floor until your ankles snap and you fall over. If your mind isn't attacking how you're doing the reps, going for more pain more gains, then you won't make the ez 1 inch in 2 weeks gains. Burnout sets every set.

If you do calf raises, pause at the bottom for two seconds to eliminate your stretch reflex.

Genetics plays a huge factor in calves. Ronnie Coleman, aka Black Jesus, has shitty calf development, and everyone is cool with that.

>>141349

I want to fuck that.

Water them every day.

Be fat your whole life, but walk around as much as a fit person would, and then lose all the fat when you're 30. That's what I did. Fucking tree trunks.

Apologies for the long reply, I kinda forgot about this thread.

Something I noticed that worked for me; FULLY lowering myself to the ground with the squat, nevermind the 'knees over the feet' anti-theory bullshit, that's just a conspiracy made up by (((someone))) to bring more soyboy untermenschen in the world.

It happened when I tried to do a squat with weight and fully lowering myself to the ground. I noticed that once the weight of the bar moved down the body past the thighs/knees, my legs started to buckle, so I would stop. Afterwards, I would concentrate on improving my squat form without weights, doing squats with glutes a foot off the ground and I felt my calves thanking me for it. I want to standardize this exercise for me so that I can do the same but with weights etc.

Real men need real calves, and to get real calves I found that you need to be able to comfortably squat your own body weight all the way down.

>Get fat and then skinny again

This is just unhealthy.

>Calf Raises

Did that for a long time, didn't seem to see much results, felt straining in my calves for sure but no visual difference really

>Running Barefoot

Okay? Where the fuck am I gonna do that when there's broken glass/shit everywhere. I live in a city anon, even walking around barefoot is just asking for trouble unless I'm on a beach or something. I also think this is a shitty idea anyway regardless of these factors The vid looks cool though, running barefoot on a beach would actually be cool if there wasn't broken glass/dogshit to worry about.

>Running in general

Tried that before. Actually seemed to make my legs MORE lithe. See long distance runners bodies vs sprinters for examples.

>>141321

Underrated post. I intend to do low squats AND calf raises down the line. Once I finish working on this site I'm gonna get a membership at my nearest gym, a lifting belt and some knee wraps and go apeshit at the gym with deadlifts, squats and other compound exercises.

>>141387

2nd underrated post, only I think I'll do a mixture of squats, deadlifts and calf raises rather than just one, etc.