post your calf size, height, weight

that one mongol guy wrote:

calf wrote:

your calves have nothing to do with running well...training does..look at Decastella, Herb lindsay, Seko, just to mention a few...you're given what you are given...

Yes, actually they do have something to do with running well. Small, light calves that generate a lot of power are good for running. For every exception, you'll find that most of the best runners would have what I would call "light, skinny calves", meaning they aren't exactly bulging with muscles. Even the sprinters. You can tell by the look of somebody's calves and ankles whether or not they are a good athlete. Somebody with cankles won't be a good athlete.

What a retarded thing to say.

Really, you can tell just by looking at someone's ankles if they're a good athlete?

Shutup with that idiocy.

height: 5'3" (female)

weight: 117 pounds

calf size: 15 inches

But they are so tight I want to cry when people touch them.

genghis educate your butt wrote:

Really, you can tell just by looking at someone's ankles if they're a good athlete?

Shutup with that idiocy.

Correction then. You can tell by looking at somebody's ankles if they are a bad athlete. Somebody with cankles isn't going to be that great of a runner. There are people out there with fat ankles. Sometimes it looks like they have no achilles tendon. These people aren't going to be able to run well. They probably can't even jog at 10 minute mile pace for very long. Also, somebody with sickly looking calves (skinny and no muscle definition) is going to be a bad athlete.

that one mongol guy wrote:

Also, somebody with sickly looking calves (skinny and no muscle definition) is going to be a bad athlete.

You've obviously never been around any Kenyan runners.

My forearms are bigger than the calves of some of the Kenyans I've met. And I have tiny forearms.

Maybe you should just stop with the really stupid generalizations...

5-11

160

19 inches

You really are a bunch of freaks measuring your calves!

that one mongol guy wrote:

Also, somebody with sickly looking calves (skinny and no muscle definition) is going to be a bad athlete.

Kenny K wrote:

You've obviously never been around any Kenyan runners.

My forearms are bigger than the calves of some of the Kenyans I've met. And I have tiny forearms.

Maybe you should just stop with the really stupid generalizations...

Kenyan runners have good muscle definition in their calves. And they don't have cankles.

that one mongol guy wrote:

that one mongol guy wrote:

Also, somebody with sickly looking calves (skinny and no muscle definition) is going to be a bad athlete.

Kenny K wrote:

You've obviously never been around any Kenyan runners.

My forearms are bigger than the calves of some of the Kenyans I've met. And I have tiny forearms.

Maybe you should just stop with the really stupid generalizations...

Kenyan runners have good muscle definition in their calves. And they don't have cankles.

Again, you've apparently not been around too many Kenyan runners. I've seen quite a few whose lower leg essentially looks like a skin-covered bone. And they run plenty fast.

Stop with the stupid generalizations. You just sound really ignorant.

ukathleticscoach wrote:

You really are a bunch of freaks measuring your calves!

you really are an attention whore commenting on a thread with posts that are so completely irrelevant.

130lbs

5'8

13 inch calves, 8 inch ankles

ukathleticscoach wrote:

You really are a bunch of freaks measuring your calves!

This.

5'8", 135lbs, 14 inches...yea im 135 what of it sorry for having upper body

Yes, actually they do have something to do with running well. Small, light calves that generate a lot of power are good for running. For every exception, you'll find that most of the best runners would have what I would call "light, skinny calves", meaning they aren't exactly bulging with muscles. Even the sprinters. You can tell by the look of somebody's calves and ankles whether or not they are a good athlete. Somebody with cankles won't be a good athlete.(quote)

look at Sammy Wanjirus calves...idiot

5d mark 2 wrote:

i think my calves are too big. wanted some sort of way to see if it's true.

Too big for what? Your calves are the size they are supposed to be. Do you really think that the thing holding you back from being a great runner is your body shape?

Your head is the problem not your calves.

5,8 120 pound 11,5 inch

blackbeltmarathoner wrote:

look at Sammy Wanjirus calves...idiot

Again, these calves aren't big, bulging calves. And he doesn't have cankles.

5'9

158 lbs

15.5" on left, 15" on right...kinda weird

also, 135 is still pretty light dude. i have a bodyfat under 5% and run about mediocre D1 level. cant help it, some of us are just born this way. i benched 185 first time ever going to the gym as a freshman in high school. i dont even lift upper body anymore, havent since high school. id trade to be lighter if it would make me faster though, like i said, pushing some hard mediocre times in D1. as for calves, mine are always sore as sh*t too. they are definitely my achilles heel (HA get it?!)

you're 158 and 5'9''?

isn't that on the heavier side? what are your pr's?

16 1/4"

5'10

153