Heavy seated calve raises at home

[greemah]

Hi all

At home I have a barbell, dumbells, plates, bench, and a cage. Up till now I have been doing seated calve raises sitting on my bench in the rack, with a barbell on the safety rails and I roll it onto my knees (have a plank on my knees so it doesn't hurt, and toes are on a plank also)

I currently do 1 set of 15 of just over 250kg but unfortunately I don't have any more plates so can't increase the weight. I was wondering if anyone could suggest a good way to do single leg heavy seated calve raises with the equipment I have? Holding plates on one knee doesn't seem possible really as it's not stable and hard to get them in place

If I can't find a good way I may have to increase my sets.. but 1x15 works really well for me and have been steadily progressing for 6 months so would rather not change

Thanks

[Riccardo]

IMO hillsprints, skipping, sled pushing will build better calves than any kind of raises will. Try giving them a go. I have good calves and always have, they are from playing sports and doing athletic type things, I also have mates who have shit calves and train them every week without fail with a range of different exercises. Most of the people I know who have good calves have them from running or playing some kind of sport or athletics.

[DrDarkMatter]

Hi all

At home I have a barbell, dumbells, plates, bench, and a cage. Up till now I have been doing seated calve raises sitting on my bench in the rack, with a barbell on the safety rails and I roll it onto my knees (have a plank on my knees so it doesn't hurt, and toes are on a plank also)

I currently do 1 set of 15 of just over 250kg but unfortunately I don't have any more plates so can't increase the weight. I was wondering if anyone could suggest a good way to do single leg heavy seated calve raises with the equipment I have? Holding plates on one knee doesn't seem possible really as it's not stable and hard to get them in place

If I can't find a good way I may have to increase my sets.. but 1x15 works really well for me and have been steadily progressing for 6 months so would rather not change

Thanks

I only work out at home, I added my wifes 60kg's to my calf raises as I ran out of weight too.

[BIGKIWI]

I do the same thing you may have to alter the way you do your reps like

increase height of boards under feet so can go right up and down

slow down reps

squeeze at top and bottom

try those couple of things

[greemah]

Thanks for your suggestions, I will chuck some skipping in as I plan to increase my cardio now anyway, and will also add another board so I can go lower & make more of an effort to squeeze at the bottom (was only squeezing at the top before)

Thanks for the input all