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11-15-20 10:05 AM - Post#904615

Has anyone gone hard on both calf training and loaded carries? I am curious how Dan John's idea about a farmer walk with 1xBW and 2xBW compares. Lets say you do them for 40 yards. That's lots of half-rep calf raises with lot's of weight.

Since my entry into fitness training came via karate I have always done things like unweighted calf raises and jump rope training to train my feet and lower legs. But never heavy. And when it comes to loaded carriers my heaviest weights were my two 40kg KBs. But for me it is usually the grip that gives out.

At the gym I can easily use the whole 140kg stack for two legged standing calf raises. No idea for one legged standing calf raise. 40% of my body weight sounds doable at my regular speed. But I don't know how much of that weight gets transferred to my shoulders. Or how much harder it is at the slow pace recommended.

Edited by 12bernd on 11-15-20 10:14 AM. Reason for edit: No reason given.

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