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You shouldn't go that high. The calves aren't really fast twitch to begin with (although the only hypertrophy in muscles in general is fast twitch to begin with) but you should go 8-12 reps with the calves. Keeps you safe and helps with both hypertrophy and strength.

I go as low as 8 reps personally with calf raises (bilaterally) and it works pretty well. No need to risk that much just for the sake of using 214324 tons.

You could also go eccentric one leg / concentric two legs. Also a lower weight.

Quote from: UAcompression on December 23, 2012, 11:39:25 pm

Should i continue full squats and do some half/qtr squats? 

Yes. Squat, whether it's full, half, front, BSS or whatever you like and you're good at.

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and should i worry about the body fat ~25% after i get stronger.  my current full squat is 310. 

Yes.

Best thing anyone can do for their athleticism is to reduce their bodyfat down to their essential bodyfat (thanks t0dday). Which means ~10% bodyfat. Most people have no idea how much weight they'd actually need to lose to get down to a legit 10%. Especially for those over 15%, they're probably underestimating big time. If you're 25% then you're too heavy to be athletic and that would be a priority for you if you care about athleticism. I'd even say that  dialing in your kitchen game is going to do more for your athleticism than anything you do in the gym.

Yup^^^

Also it depends on what kind of "jumping guy" you are. If you want immediate results, start cutting now and trying to maintain strength. Once you get to 10-12% bodyfat start getting stronger again. You should see your vert going up. If you're a guy who's thinking long-term, continue strength training dispite being fat and think to the future.

If I remember right Kelly was saying it's better to cut now and THEN start gaining strength if you're a fatass. That makes it safer to use plyos as well.

By the way - you're going to improve plyometrically cutting fat but make sure you get your calves stronger in the meantime.

That's because he ended up squatting 410 by doing ab workouts.

Meh... try doing barbell calf raises... there will be some balance issues but if I can manage them, you can too.

Being light helps eh?

325x5 is pretty good... you need to keep that up. When is the last time you've hit your calves with a huge volume (for example, my volume for the calf day is around 30,000 lbs)?

Both the eagle and the kid were created in 3D animation and integrated in to the film afterwards.

Then it makes sense.

aite so how about this, once ive got 6x60 for both legs, i keep the stronger leg on 60 while progressing the weaker leg to say 70. Then progress them both from there at the same rate

 

No. You use the same weight for both legs, with the weak leg first. This way the weak leg gets to his maximum number of repetitions while the strong leg gets "some" training effect since it still does work but it doesn't go to failure like the weak leg does.

thinking out aloud .. what is the bss? it's a kind of unilateral exercise but not really since it's not a true single leg exercise that is kind of a squat but not really because it's not below parallel. so for it to be an effective leg exercise you kind of need to be lifting a weight >> 1/2*FS_max. Why? because being a partial squat, by giving up depth we use more weight. and by giving up true unilateralism we can use more weight than 1/2 the bilateral weight. so i should be looking at building up to say 100x6 on BSS to get something out of the exercise. hows my logik?

You think too much... you shouldn't worry about correlating exercises. You shouldn't think "If I front squat 100 kg does that mean that I can do the same work back squatting 120 kg or BSS-ing with 50 kg dumbbells?"

Too many parameters to correlate these exercises. You just need to worry about improving whatever lift you're aiming to improve. If you're improving then you're getting closer to your objective of improving athleticism.