Standing Calf Raises

How to do it

1. Set the shoulder pads to your height and stand with the balls of your feet on the platform, heels hanging off.
2. Stand up to take the weight, legs straight but knees not locked hard.
3. Let your heels sink as far below the platform as they will go - that stretch is the point.
4. Push up onto your toes as high as you can and pause for a beat.
5. Lower slowly. Bouncing off the bottom is the most common way to waste this exercise.

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

• Seated Calf Raises Machines
• Leg Press Calf Raises Machines
• Dumbbell Calf Raises Dumbbells
• 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.