Dumbbell Calf Raises

How to do it

1. Stand with a dumbbell in each hand at your sides, balls of your feet on a step or plate.
2. Let your heels drop below the step into a stretch.
3. Push up onto your toes as high as you can.
4. Pause at the top, then lower slowly.
5. Hold a rack with one hand if balance is the limiting factor rather than your calves.

Muscles it trains

Percent of one session's target for that muscle. Anything at 100% finishes that muscle on its own.

Other ways to train this

• Standing Calf Raises Machines
• Seated Calf Raises Machines
• Leg Press Calf Raises Machines
• Single-Leg Calf Raises Bodyweight
• Smith Machine Calf Raises Smith machine
• Band Calf Raises Resistance bands
• Barbell Calf Raises BarbellIntermediate

Photos and form cues from free-exercise-db, released into the public domain.