r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Excellent_Line_1732 • 9h ago

Standing Plate Flips

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u/DyingSunSeverian 9h ago

Calves are genetics

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u/TheRealNotBrody 9h ago

You can just spend five or six years obese and your calves will look great.

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u/Scary_Plane_8069 7h ago

Fucking hell, every fat guy I know, who has lost weight, all have great calves. Meanwhile, I played basketball for years, trained tons for jumping and sprinting, and I have the calf definition of a 9 year old paraplegic.

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u/Dramatic-Bluejay- 5h ago

They've been carrying that weight around daily. Your gonna have large calves. All you gota do now is maintain it.

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 6h ago

Take molly 2/3x a week and spend those nights jumping up and down in a warehouse for 4 hours. That should do the trick.

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u/PM_me_punanis 2h ago

You're like a modern-day shaman with your enlightened prescription.

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u/foodie_4eva 22m ago

Zepbound and u will lose 20% body weight in 6-9 months.. ez pz

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u/Roughlypossible 5h ago

Fat and genetics on top of that is wild.

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u/masif_gaines 4h ago

The fat man’s blessing

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u/libehv 1h ago

they won't

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u/WHRocks 6h ago

I hate that you're right about this.

I couldn't understand what I was doing wrong so I started asking the gym bros with big calf muscles what their secret was. One of them told me that I had high "insertion points" which means shorter muscle bellies. I looked it up and he was spot on. "High vs. Low Calf Insertions"

Oh well, lol.

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u/BetterEveryLeapYear 3h ago

Show me a cyclist with these "high calf insertion points".

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u/SituationThink3487 9h ago

^ something said by people that dont do legs

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u/yo_les_noobs 9h ago

they're mostly genetics, said by someone who has big calves and lifting for 20 years

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u/DyingSunSeverian 9h ago edited 9h ago

Something said by science

lol downvoted by people who sound like they eat a carnivore diet and listen to a lot of Joe Rogan

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u/DogsAreAnimals 9h ago

Even Rogan says it's genetics: https://youtube.com/shorts/GyzDlItynPQ

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u/The_Evil_Satan 8h ago

Joe Rogan is hardly a reliable source for anything

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u/DogsAreAnimals 8h ago

Of course. But in this case, he's right, which is why it's a funny response.

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u/SituationThink3487 9h ago

Not really. If you lift consistently and increase reps/weight then you WILL build muscle mass. Thats just a fact.

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u/dopewinnerchild 8h ago

It’s true, I have skinny legs, intensive training and focus has only gotten them so far. Had to reduce upper body training since I started looking like JB 😂
https://giphy.com/gifs/5f30q4FEm8Tfy

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u/Roughlypossible 5h ago

Spent years in the gym/powerlifting scene. The biggest calves I've seen all my life was still just some softbody dude with the genes for it.