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🦵 The Lengthened Partial Calf Hack — The Only Technique That Actually Grows Them

Everyone trains calves wrong — they bounce up and down in a tiny range at the top, wondering why their lower legs still look like sticks after years of training 😤. The game-changing research hack? Never go up onto your toes at all — instead, stay in the bottom half of the calf raise where the muscle is fully stretched, doing slow controlled lengthened partials. Studies comparing full range, shortened partials, and lengthened partials found that the group staying in the deep stretched position grew almost twice as much calf muscle as the group doing traditional full reps.

The gastrocnemius generates its greatest mechanical tension at longer muscle lengths, which is exactly why loading the stretch — heels dropped as low as possible off a step, slow 2–3 second negative, pause, then only coming halfway up — absolutely destroys any other technique for calf hypertrophy. Do this 3–4 times a week, 4–5 sets of 15–20 reps, and your calves will finally respond the way every other muscle does when you actually train it properly 💪.

Australia's own Lee Priest had some of the most insanely proportioned calves in bodybuilding history — and you can watch his full hardcore workout including every set, every rep, and all his training commentary in Lee Priest: Another Blond Myth — available now at Prime Cuts Bodybuilding — an all-time classic that every serious bodybuilder needs in their collection 🔥.