The researchers concluded that calf muscle hypertrophy was greater when Smith machine calf raises were performed to dorsiflexion compared with plantarflexion. When the goal is to increase calf ...

The same review found that training with 20-30 sets per muscle per week delivers the most muscle growth, with diminishing returns beyond this. 'Personally this volume research just makes me way more ...

Resistance training included 20 weekly sets of straight knee calf raises with three exercises ... The combined stretching and resistance training protocol led to improvements in flexibility, strength, ...

As well as this, further studies investigated the effect of working the muscle in the stretched position, to find it has beneficial effects on hypertrophy. Now, a new case study has investigated the ...