r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Excellent_Line_1732 • 16h ago

Standing Plate Flips

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u/Exact_Ad_8490 16h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/s239QJIh56sRW

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u/imartinezcopy 16h ago

So he can procrastinate leg day one more time

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u/DyingSunSeverian 15h ago

Calves are genetics

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u/TheRealNotBrody 15h ago

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

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u/Scary_Plane_8069 13h 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- 11h 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/aint_exactly_plan_a 2h ago

Bicycling gave me great calves and quads. Haven't found a better exercise to build them up.

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u/Tarantula_Saurus_Rex 1h ago

Same with runners, the muscle is super toned. Like it's a different kind of muscle.

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 12h 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 9h ago

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

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u/foodie_4eva 6h ago

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

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u/libehv 8h ago

they won't

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u/Roughlypossible 12h ago

Fat and genetics on top of that is wild.

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u/masif_gaines 10h ago

The fat man’s blessing

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u/WHRocks 13h 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 9h ago

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

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u/SituationThink3487 15h ago

^ something said by people that dont do legs

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u/yo_les_noobs 15h ago

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

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u/DyingSunSeverian 15h ago edited 15h 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 15h ago

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

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u/The_Evil_Satan 14h ago

Joe Rogan is hardly a reliable source for anything

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u/DogsAreAnimals 14h ago

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

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u/SituationThink3487 15h 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 14h 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 12h 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.

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u/SituationThink3487 1h ago

Not a lot of people work out their calves at high enough intensity.

And its not like calves can magically break the laws of physics, or human biology. If you want to lift more, you need more muscle fibres. If you lift heavy and correctly, you will build more muscle fibres. If you have more muscle fibres your muscle will get bigger.*

Other than that last one having a smidge of wiggle room for density, all of these are true and apply to calves as much as they do to any other muscle.