When beginners enter the gym, they typically select a standard calf-training routine from a magazine and follow it fairy closely.  It’s typically 4 to 8 sets of standard mass-building calf exercises.  They complete their sets each week and don’t put much thought into the uneventful and often unnoticed calf muscles.  However, as a bodybuilder becomes an intermediate or an advanced athlete, calf development – or lack of development in certain areas of the calves – becomes more apparent.  When this happens, select exercises to emphasize the weak areas to induce growth. Weak outer calves Complete standard calf raises with your toes pointed inward.  This works the outer head of the calf muscles. Weak inner calves Complete standard calf raises with your toes pointed outward.  This works the inner head of the calf muscles. Weak lower calves Complete standing calf raises with the knees bent ...

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