Calf Raises - With Bands

Calves · Band

How to do it

Stand on the middle of a band with the balls of your feet, making sure both sides are the same length, and hold the ends at shoulder height. Rise onto your toes squeezing for two seconds at the top and lower slowly, stretching the calf. The band bites harder the higher you are, exactly where the calf contracts. It is the way to train it with no equipment. The classic mistake is not using a step: without dropping the heel you lose half the range.

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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