Video: Basic Exercises: Standing Calf Raises

Standing calf raises are an exercise that help strengthen muscles and increase jumping ability. Learn about the benefits of calf raises from a former professional athlete in this free video.

Video Transcript

O'kay to accompany what we have been doing before along with the jumping, the hopping, the jump roping and everything else he is going to strengthen up his calves by just doing some simple calf raises. Now a lot of times you can do it off of a raised surface so you are stretching your calves at the same time but he is capable of doing it right off the ground and what this will do is help him get an explosion when he is jumping, running, getting himself a start, anything along those lines and he is really going to start feeling the burn and he is going to push through and I like to do about 20 per set and then when you do about three or four reps then you will really start to feel tight. Once again he has gone through his warm ups, he has gone through his stretches so this is not going to hinder him in any way by going ahead and doing something that is more of a muscle building characteristic. Now what we will do is we will partner up and he will just do one at a time. This is a little bit more advanced because you are using the whole body weight just on one calf so you really want to make sure that this is not something that you just try and start off doing. We will switch up and as you can see he has gotten a good pump so he has been going through it the whole time so we will give him three more, two, one, and once again you can go through this in reps of 10 to 20 and sets of 3 to 4.

Basic Exercises: Standing Calf Raises

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