HELP WITH BIG CALVES

the size is potentially resultant from overuse of the calf muscles to overcompensate for imbalance in your running form. see your athletic trainer or a pt to give you a gait analysis from front, side, and rear views. they might uncover discrepancies which can be corrected with strengthening in other areas. once strengthened, the size of your calves could potentially reduce if your size isssue is due to imbalances.

Do people really not understand how muscles work? There is only one real way to get smaller calves. One, stop running completely and never walk. Get around in a wheelchair. Also, stop eating to so you don't start gaining weight. Then you leg muscles will shrink right up.

It's all genetics. I run upwards of 100-120 miles a week and I am far from your average stick figure runner.

Alan

large calves may be a two sided problem. Part of the problem may be your form. Form has such a great effect on overall leg and muscle shape few actually realize it. The reason the best runners legs appear relatively uniform is because their form is the most efficient. The slower a group tends to be the more diverse their leg shapes are, as a result of different forms contributing to different muscles being underworked/overworked. If you want smaller calves stop:

A)Vertical oscillation (don't jump in the air, thats not running its jumping)

B)Straining your calves to work harder, don't push off on your damn toes all the damn time.

C)Don't even think about your damn legs when your run, just run and try to do it effortlessly.

D)Watch hours and hours of the best women in the world running, and emulate their form to some degree that allows improvement without injury, I can't tell you what this is you have to find it.

finally, eat healthy, don't starve yourself (just makes the problem worse for reasons to lengthy to explain) and ask yourself if huge calves are really a good thing or not. They are slightly sexy on the right woman.

The only known cure for big calves are lots of b*******s.

Scientific FACT!

its not all genetics if we have 99.99% the same genes, most of the differences in people comes from cultural/pyschological reasons.

Running 100miles barefoot, eating barley, oats, cereal, lettuce, and small amounts of beef every week will make you look like a kenyan regardless of genetics. Im sick and tired of this frickin genes argument.

If I consumed massive amounts of american food and managed 100 miles a week on roads with heavy trainers yeah I wouldn't be small either and neither would alot of kenyans.

genes don't matter if you don't train them.

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Are we talking soccer calves here? If not, I don't think there's a problem.

duh wrote:

Running 100miles barefoot, eating barley, oats, cereal, lettuce, and small amounts of beef every week will make you look like a kenyan regardless of genetics.

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So doing doing all that will turn my skin black?

duh wrote:

Running 100miles barefoot, eating barley, oats, cereal, lettuce, and small amounts of beef every week will make you look like a kenyan regardless of genetics.

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Can I substitute Beer for the barley and still look like a kenyan?

you know, you really are a dick. Obviously the topic is on muscle structure and you just had to bring up skin color. And yes, running as much as they do in the sun will make you considerably darker, but not black. Moron.

duh wrote:

you know, you really are a dick. Obviously the topic is on muscle structure and you just had to bring up skin color. And yes, running as much as they do in the sun will make you considerably darker, but not black. Moron.

He was being funny, you cretin. Are you really that high strung?

I hate to break this to you but the size of your calves is pretty much all genetic. Unless you are specifically doing exercises to strengthen them, they're going to be the size they're going to be. All you can do is decrease your FULL body weight. You can't really spot reduce a muscle that you are using all the time.

I really enjoyed the V I P A M acronym contest. regrettably, it was removed.

Time for a F L A G P O L E acronym contest. I'll start:

Frustrated

Loudmouthed

Arrogant

Guy

Predicts

Olympian's

Loss

Erroneously

Big Calves....

Luscious - but there must be a clearly defined ankle.

Sweet fancy moses...

KANKLES KANKLES KANKLES