Calf Press

Calves · Machine

How to do it

Set the leg press seat so your legs are **only slightly bent** at the start. Place the balls of your feet on the bottom edge of the platform with your heels free, and release the safeties. Let your heels drop as far as they go, stretching the calf, and press onto your toes squeezing for two seconds at the top. The press lets you load heavily with nothing on your spine. The classic mistake is bending the knees to help: they stay fixed.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

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