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.

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