Sentences with phrase «standing calf raises with»

Find a place where you can do standing calf raises with additional resistance.

Do standing calf raises with a slightly bent knee that changes the stress to the soleus muscle and flexors, taking it distant from the gastric.

You can also set the bar up higher, set a calf block down and do standing calf raises with this type of setup as well.

While some people enjoy the full range of motion allowed when doing standing calf raises with the assistance of dumbbells for added weight, many fitness centers provide state of the art leg press machines.

Finally, for his legs, he does 4 sets of 12 reps each of everyone's favorite barbell squats, then hack squats, barbell lunges (mostly the one - legged hack squat lunges), leg extensions, Romanian deadlifts, seated leg curls, standing calf raises with one leg only, and finishes with a seated calf raise.

Not exact matches

Stand straight with your feet wide apart, toes pointing either straight (equal emphasis on all calve muscles), inwards (emphasis on the inner calves) or outwards (emphasis on the outer calves), and raise your heels off the floor as you exhale by contracting the calves.

-- Lunges — 4 sets of 10 reps with each leg — Standing Calf Raises 5 sets of 15 - 20 repetitions.

Calf Raises Stand with legs parallel, feet hip - distance apart.

Squats 4 x 10 reps in a superset with Leg curls 4 x 10 reps Lunges 4 x 10 reps (each leg) in a superset with Standing calf raises 4 x 10 reps

Put some really heavy sets in your workout schedule with 15 - 20 reps each, as well as standing calf raises and some toe presses which you can do on a leg press.

Sample Exercise Setup: Chest — 3 exercises, 1 incline, 1 flat and 1 decline Back — 4 exercises, 1 wide chin up or latt pull, 1 row, 1 pulley or machine row, Deads or pullovers (alternate between these two) Delts — 3 exercises, overhead press, side laterals, bent laterals Triceps — 3 exercises, overhead tricep extension with bar or dumbbell, cable pressdown, machine dip Biceps — 3 exercises, preacher curl, barbell or dumbbell curl, cable curl Quads — 3 exercises, press of some kind, extension, hack or press or squat of some kind Hams — 1 exercise, leg curl Calves — 3 exercises, standing calf raise, bent lower back calf raise (like donkey calf raises where your upper body and lower body are in an «L» shape), seated calf raises Abs - 3 exercises, weighted machine crunch, hanging leg lifts, cable reverse crunches Traps — 1 exercise, shrugs

Standing Dumbbell Calf Raises 8 - 20 reps Lower weight and immediately do Standing Dumbbell Calf Raises 8 - 20 reps Lower weight and immediately do Standing Dumbbell Calf Raises 8 - 20 reps Put the weights away and immediately do Standing Dumbbell Calf Raises to failure with just the bodyweight

This means that you'll end up doing the last three exercises (leg extensions, leg curls and standing calf raises) all the way through with no break.

I am a big fan of calf (heel) raises on a step with no resistance, but once your calf strength improves, you can add resistance by doing your heel raises on a standing calf machine.

Exercises with the knees locked, such as standing calf raises, work the gastrocnemius.

Chest: various push - ups Back: various pull - ups (do need a pull - up bar for this) Shoulders: Hand stand press Biceps: close grip chins Triceps: close grip push ups, triceps dips Quads: squats (press with ball of the foot), various lunges (press with ball of the foot), sissy squats Hamstrings: squats (press with ball of the foot), various lunges (press with ball of the foot), sissy squats Calves: standing two - legged calf raises, one legged calf raises Abs: various forms of crunches and leg raises

You will do Drop Side and Stand Leg Abduction Lifts, Sequential Front Lunge Kick Combo, Narrow Stance Squats, again with a bonus Calf Raise, and one final round of Wide Stance Deadlifts to leave you shaking in your shoes!

Exercises with the knees locked (legs straight), such as single - leg standing dumbbell calf raises, work the gastrocnemius.

trap - bar bent - legged deadlift 1 x 15 - 20 followed immediately by Rader chest pull 1 x 20 rest 5 minutes supine leg curl 1 x 10 - 15 seated calf raise 1 x 15 - 20 D.A.R.D. raise 1 x 8 - 12 barbell side bend 1 x 8 - 12 barbell bench press 1 x 8 - 12 chin - up or pull - down 2 x 8 - 12 military barbell overhead press 2 x 8 - 12 shrug 2 x 8 - 12 close - grip bench press 2 x 8 - 12 standing biceps curl with straight bar and arm blaster 1 x 8 - 12 hammer curl 1 x 8 - 12 crunch 1 x 15 - 20 reverse crunch 1 x 10 - 15

bent - legged deadlift with Olympic bar 2 x 8 - 10 followed immediately by light dumbbell pullover 2 x 15 rest 5 minutes after both sets one - legged calf raise 1 x 15 - 20 D.A.R.D. raise 1 x 8 - 10 leg press on angled leg press machine 1 x 10 - 12 dumbbell bench press 1 x 8 - 10 incline dumbbell flye 1 x 8 - 10 pullover 1 x 8 - 10 barbell row with underhand grip 1 x 8 - 10 dumbbell overhead press with 1 dumbbell 1 x 8 - 10 shrug 1 x 6 - 8 seated overhead triceps dumbbell extension 1 x 8 - 10 standing biceps curl with straight bar and arm blaster 1 x 8 - 10 hammer curl 1 x 8 - 10 crunch 1 x 15 - 20

For Hack Squats, Romanian Deadlifts, Lying Leg Curls and Leg Abductors, Dwayne Johnson uses 12 reps. To finish his legs workout, The Rock works his calves with both standing and seated calf raises.

Calves Standing Calf Raises (alternate with Calf Press) 4 sets of 8 - 10 reps Seated Calf Raises with Toes In (alternate with Seated Calf Raises with Toes Out) 4 sets of 15 - 20 reps

Exercises with the knees locked (legs fully straight), such as standing barbell calf raises, work the gastrocnemius.

FIRST incline press using thick bar 1 x 8 - 10 incline dumbbell flye 1 x 15 - 20 incline press using thick bar 1 x 8 - 10 dumbbell bench press 1 x 8 - 10 flat bench dumbbell flye 1 x 15 - 20 dumbbell bench press 1 x 8 - 10 front pulldown or chin 1 x 8 - 10 stiff - arm pulldown 1 x 15 - 20 front pulldown or chin 1 x 8 - 10 one dumbbell pullover drop set of 3 x 8 close - grip bench press 1 x 8 - 10 pushdown with rope handle 1 x 15 - 20 close - grip bench press 1 x 8 - 10 seated overhead (one - arm) extension drop set 3 x 8 incline or hanging kneeups 1 x 8 - 10 ab - bench crunch 1 x 15 - 20 incline or hanging kneeups 1 x 8 - 10 SECOND [2] dumbbell upright row 1 x 8 - 10 standing forward - lean lateral raise 1 x 15 - 20 [2] dumbbell upright row 1 x 8 - 10 dumbbell (two - arm) press drop set 3 x 8 incline one - arm dumbbell lateral 1 x 8 bent - over dumbbell lateral drop set 3 x 8 dumbbell (two - arm) row on high bench 1 x 8 - 10 seated bent - arm bent - over dumbbell lateral 1 x 15 - 20 dumbbell (two - arm) row on high bench 1 x 8 - 10 one - arm dumbbell row 1 x 8 - 10 barbell shrug [wrist straps or hooks are fine] 1 x 15 - 20 standing dumbbell curl w arm - blaster 1 x 8 - 10 spider curl with E-Z curl bar 1 x 15 - 20 cable curl with straight bar 1 x 8 - 10 incline (two - arm) curl drop set 3 x 8 incline (two - arm) hammer curl drop set 3 x 8 rotator cuff with ShoulderHorn and dumbbells 1 x 8 - 10 hang from chinning bar'til failure THIRD front squat 1 x 6 - 8 leg extension 1 x 15 - 20 front squat 1 x 6 - 8 sissy squat 1 x 8 - 10 supine leg curl 1 x 15 - 20 leg press on angled leg press 1 x 8 - 10 stiff - legged deadlift 1 x 8 - 10 immediately followed by back extension 1 x 30 - 50 (no weight) 5 minute rest leg press calf raise 1 x 20 leg press calf raise 1 x 15 standing calf raise 1 x 12 - 15 seated calf raise 1 x 12 - 15 D.A.R.D raise 1 x 8 - 10 4 - way neck work with towel — 1 15 - second rep for each of the 4 ways TIPS for using this program in your weight lifting routines: