Outer Thigh

[AlexDavis43]

It annoys me when people say that because it goes against conventional wisdom. Why can’t you grow every single muscle apart from your calves. Makes no sense.

There was a study on bodybuilders vs other athletes (iirc). Some muscles respond much better than others to training. Like rear delts were much larger relative to calves in bodybuilders compared to other athletes.

Just to say, not all muscles respond equally well to resistance training.

Yes. You are correct.

Mine just do not grow like other muscles.

Example, traps. Inject steroids. Do one heavy set of shrugs, once a week. No other direct work, just whatever indirect work it gets from rack pulls and whatever. Traps grow from one set of shrugs. I actually cut way back on them when I saw pics from vacation and thought, oh, those look out of balance to the rest of my body.

Calves. Low sets, high sets, high reps, low reps, I mean, they grow, but barely. I used to train front calves in addition to back calves (tibialis anterior) using bands when I was a competitor to try and give my sticks below the knees just a little more girth.

Everybody has genetically gifted body parts. Some are more extreme than others. I would think it stands to reason that other folks have genetically cursed body parts. Calves seem to be a common one.

Well then my calves must be cursed. I tried calf injections for a while but didn't make much difference. Nothing like people with "gifted" calves.

 

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