Two questions

[Timma]

Ok first off, I am gaining too much muscle on my ass. I've always had an unproportionate ass as long as i've known. It's growing faster than the rest of my body. When I do legs, I do squats. Should I stop those? Should I cut down also the amount I work out the backs of my legs?

Second, my calves are taking forever to grow. I work them whenever I do legs and I notice growth in my thighs (and of course ass) but barely in my calves. Any suggestions on what I should do?

Thanks.

[Timma]

Bizump

[psyko1]

you can hit your calves eod if you'd like. if you're not already try doing single calf raises with a heavy dumbell. when you go up count to 5 then slowly lower. if you're doing them off the ground make sure you stop just above the ground so you don't bounce up and take away the strain on your calves. you can superset those with a lighter dumbell and take 30-45 seconds in between sets. not sure about the legs, i wouldn't quit doing squats, you can position your legs differently to get less stress on your ass.

[Stonecold54]

calves are usually small from genetics and most of the time there is not much you can do about it to get really big ones. I would suggest that you back off completely in your calf training. and instead do 1 or 2 sets of intense workouts every other week. and by intense I mean, having a hard time walking after you are done. use strip sets, giant sets, supersets, heavy negatives, etc...

as far as your ass problems, try to back off on your squats and focus on maybe hack squats if you can handle them and leg extensions.

[meat12]

what exercises are you doing for calves?

[Timma]

I'll do like three or four sets of seated raises 6-8 reps each. Then i'll do standing raises for three or four sets 6-8 reps each, but with the standing raises i'll do three or four sets with my toes pointed in and then three or four with toes pointed out.

[meat12]

Ok just wanted to make sure you were doing standing raises, when doing standing raises your working out the gastrocs more than seated raises (cause the muscle is contracted in seated raises) . I would try only doing two exercises for calves no more than 3 sets.

[Timma]

That's kind of what i have been doing and I see no results.

[meat12]

Originally posted by stonecold54
calves are usually small from genetics and most of the time there is not much you can do about it to get really big ones. I would suggest that you back off completely in your calf training. and instead do 1 or 2 sets of intense workouts every other week. and by intense I mean, having a hard time walking after you are done. use strip sets, giant sets, supersets, heavy negatives, etc...

then I would say go by stoncold's advice man