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.
On one hand, a step isn't a full contraction. I've done a lot of this, but it's never benefitted me. It makes me think of dancers/ballerinas who have monstrous calf strength. But then again, it also makes me think of all the coal miners I knew growing up who had giant calves from tromping up and down deep mines all day.
At the gym I can easily use the whole 140kg stack for two legged standing calf raises.
Hey, I remember that machine from my youth! And you are right, I played that game too, it was one of the few machines I could impress on. Funny, I haven't seen one of them in decades. I guess it's just easy to replicate one legged anywhere, or two-legged on a Smith.
