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it’s cool young Reese [Music] hey everybody Jeff Cavalier aex. com here with Jason Jason is one of my coaching clients he’s been working with me for about what six months now or so about that and when Jason first came to me one of the things that he struggled with which a lot of guys struggle with is calf development and he said I need to really work on I love athl expert I got to figure out a way got to work on my calf development what can I do so I prescribed a workout for him I call it coach C’s crazy calf workout um you know seashell seashells by the seashore type thing but we we got really great results from that for Jason now as as part of you know the guy’s always trying to learn more he’s always trying to get better he paid to come here and spend time in the Xbox with me as part of that one day athleen live experience and we’ll talk about that at the end of if you want to be the guy the next guy will be here with me uh I’ll tell you how to do at the end of the video but Jason came in and and he wanted to figure out you know what can I do to get better as part of this he’s able to actually do the the workout that that is uh constructed for his weak spot he doesn’t have Cavs as a weak spot anymore but he said what’ you say you want to share this with everybody else yeah it’s everybody’s weakness so he wanted to share that workout I think it’s a great idea here’s the calf workout from matl next let me show you what it is real quick again coach Cav crazy calf workout we do leash we got uh donkey calf races it’s one of the most Irreplaceable and best calf exercise you can do I’m going to show you a way that you can actually weit it without having to have your buddy jump on your back uh you’re not going to want to do that at the gym um two failure guys everything for Cals should be done to failure for the most part because that is the way to overload them there’s three muscles in your body your abs your calves and your forearms that are used constantly throughout the day you have to be able to overload them take them to failure each and every time you train them try to train with heavier weights if you can and try to train explosively and that’s what’s going to going to happen in this workout sit to stand calf raises I’m going to show you a way to do them with a physia ball to eliminate any knee problems that you would get doing a normal variation of this exercise again to failure toe touch farmers walk we’re going to go straight ahead toes pointed out toes pointed in actually whatever the way you know the arrow should go here with some hops in between three round trips to failure and then Sprinter calf raises really cool exercise really get your calves into what I call the leap of faith we’ll explain why that’s called that in a little little bit so Jason’s going to get over here what we’ve done is assemble you probably saw one of the dip videos that I did a while back where I assembled a u u just a a plate with a dog leash through it and he’s going to get through actually should should be the other way around that’s right yep now he puts the the weight in front but now he’s going to let it go through the legs behind so he’s pretty much essentially locked that weight plate in place gets on a little step over here knees are going to be straight going to lean forward so he puts the weight now what he’s basically done is right in line with the center of gravity he’s got the calves you know in line with his hips and the weight right in line with that so he’s just going to do a straight up Donkey calf raise straight up and down he has not revealed his calves yet to everybody for those longing to see if he actually has developed it he’s hiding them behind the plate but you’ll see him soon so you take this one to failure all right it’s a tough exercise go ahead and now you can take that out we won’t let you go all the way and be careful taking the the plate off the next thing we do is a sit to stand calf raise so he’s going to walk on over here yeah he’s going to grab some dumbbells now we’ve done a variation of exercise I’ve seen before where guys will come down here and they’ll do their they’ll work their Solus with their knees bent right by that but that puts a lot of strain and stress on your knees so what can you do put yourself up with the ball behind your back right here going go down into a straight you know into a bottom part of a of a of a squat going to start with the the Solus lift so it’s going to be knees bent heels up going to come straight up keeping them up all the way as high as you can a little extra lift at the Top If you can all right and then straight down heels flat first part of the lift Solus now all the way up through the gas Rock knees straight there you go and the toes are still up I mean the heels are still up heels up all the way up heels stay up and a little extra lift if you can get that one last inch that’s really one of the keys is to try to get that last little burst up at the top heels up first all the way give me that last little squeeze there you go that last little squeeze is where he gets those last bit of fibers there through the gastrock remember two parts of the calvs guys Solus and gastrock we had a little drawing over there I didn’t show you but that’s what it looks like cool so now he’s going he can use as heavy of Weights as he can here again we stress heavy weights and two failure great all right come on up hold on to the dumbbells you go right into very little rest remember they’re built they’re resilient muscles they’re built for firing over and over again you want to hit your head you’re going to go up on the the uh toe touch farmers walk so all the way up on your toes straight knees as straight as you can keep them tip toe straight down there you can see those guys firing up there I mean the guy obviously doesn’t have a calf problem anymore okay keep those toes Straight Ahead they’re poting out a little bit get them in get them in okay now at the end let’s do a couple of those those hop 10 little hops so again explosive knee straight knee straight there you go little hops just like that almost like you jumping rope okay nice and light nice and light good now right turn turn your heels out there you go keep your knees straight duck walk back I mean this is a burner especially because he didn’t rest between the last exercise I see sweat coming down from the side of his eye watch your head over there now when you’re there again it’s nice small little jumps not big not big that’s it and we want to train explos explosing this also into your C that knee straight knee straight nice and light okay now heels in and walk out purpose of the heels in heels out to stret different areas of the calf work more the inner head work more the outer head all right and as he’s down the end there he does nice and light keep go knee straight if you can at this point he’s ready to collapse so the knees are giving in all right cool so you would take that to failure now you can bring those dumbbells put them down come on over here the last one cool exercise here it’s called the Sprinter calf raise so what we want to do is want to get down into the Sprinter position Bend so we have the knee bent and the Solus engaged here and then what we’re going to do is push straight up and then also push the knee back so what we’re doing is we’re we’re we’re working the calf through its full range of motion and at the same time forcing a stretch onto the hamstring to be able to really get that calf to fire you want to get your knee as straight as possible and in order to do that we got to get rid of that hamstring tightness so it’s a great onew combo and Jason going to show that to us here so call the Sprinter calf ra so he’s right in front okay get straight up and he lifts as high as you can right there come straight dow