Smith Machine Reverse Calf Raises

Calves · Machine

How to do it

Guided bar on your upper back and a platform right underneath, with your **heels on it and your toes free**, the opposite of a normal raise. Let your toes drop and lift them as far as they go, pulling them towards your shins; hold a second and lower slowly. It works the **tibialis anterior**, the muscle at the front of the shin, which almost nobody trains and which takes a beating when running. The classic mistake is the weight: the tibialis is small, and an empty bar already bites.

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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