Seated Calf Raise

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This movement mainly trains calves, and also recruits Hamstrings.

What the movement loads

With the knee bent, gastrocnemius is slackened and soleus is left to work alone. It is the deep calf muscle, the one carrying most of the mass, and the standing version loads it poorly.

How to load it

Fifteen to twenty-five reps. Soleus is an endurance muscle: it responds to longer sets than most other groups.

The recurring mistake

Treating this as a duplicate of the standing version. The two do not load the same muscle, and dropping the seated one means never training soleus directly.

Variants in the catalogue

The variants REPWIND's catalogue carries, under the name the app shows:

• Band Standing Calf Raise
• Donkey Calf Raise
• Dumbbell Seated Calf Raise
• Dumbbell Single Leg Calf Raise
• Dumbbell Standing Calf Raise
• Lever Standing Calf Raise
• Smith Calf Raise