Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / legs
Standing calf raise
Ball of foot on edge, knee soft, full stretch before drive.
Muscles
- Primary
- calves
- Supporting
- None listed
Mechanics
- Pattern
- ankle extension
- Equipment
- machine, dumbbell
- Geometry
- Variable Range
- Energy model
- Glycolytic Pathway (10-90s)
- Target feel
- Calves stretch at the bottom and finish tall without bouncing.
- Progression
- Add pauses at stretch and top before load.
- Regression
- Use bodyweight single-leg if machine is taken.
Watch for
- Partial reps
- Bouncing out of the bottom
Substitutions
- Seated calf raise
- Leg press calf press
- Single-leg DB calf raise