Can you work out your abs and calves as much as you want?!


Question: I heard that the muscle fibers are different in your calves and abs, so you can't over work them, is this true?

Should I work abs and calves 5-6 times a week


Answers: I heard that the muscle fibers are different in your calves and abs, so you can't over work them, is this true?

Should I work abs and calves 5-6 times a week

These are two separate muscle groups with different physiological roles. They bear a completely different daily weight load, so you have to treat them as two different things.

In terms of calves, they are tough. Think about it, they let you extend your foot each day, climb stairs and are critical to walking. They get plenty of daily training just from moving yourself. For this reason, they are already trained for endurance thanks to the thousands of steps you take each day to do whatever it is you do.

Train your calves heavy, like any other muscle group, and aim to fail at between 10-15 reps. I'm not a big subscriber to the massive rep school of calve training. They are what they are not because of different fiber composition, but because they are worked for endurance (high reps) every day just by merely walking.

Also, make sure you are working them from different angles .. including straight legged and bent knee. The calf is composed of different muscle groups (it's actually three), and you need to train it that way.

Abs are a little different. Although they give your core strength and stability, they are not as "tough" as calves. You need to target them, for sure, but not with endless reps. Indeed, most people train abs far too often, with excessively high reps with little or no resistance.

I would opt for training them three times a week, in a 15-25 rep range with some resistance applied. This can be done by adding cable resistance to your crunches or medicine ball crunches, or by adding a plate to your chest for simple decline situps or crunches. If you do leg raises, put a light barbell between your feet. In general, the reason people don't get the abs they want is because they don't train them for mass. Instead, they think 200 situps will get them a six pack. Six packs come from muscle mass and low-body fat that doesn't hide the muscle underneath.

Best of luck!

your abs and calves are made up of the same fibers as every other muscles. the reason people think they can work them more is because usually the excercises consist of lower weights and higher reps which rarely makes those particular groups of muscles sore because we constantly use both abs and calves. if you feel like youre not getting a workout try weighted calf raises and weight crunches





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