- Place a block on the floor about 12 inches from a flat bench.
- Sit on a flat bench and place a dumbbell on your upper left thigh about 3 inches above your knee.
- Now place the ball of your left foot on the block. This will be your starting position.
- Raise your toes up as high as possible as you exhale and you contract your calf muscle. Hold the contraction for a second.
- Slowly return to the starting position, stretching as far down as possible.
- Repeat for your prescribed number of repetitions and then repeat with the right leg.
Variations: You can perform this exercise also with both legs at the same time as well as using a seated calf raise machine.
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Review: Dumbbell Seated One-Leg Calf Raise
Jan 26, 2012 3:18 PM: impossible
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Mar 23, 2011 4:11 AM: Fools below me
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Mar 23, 2011 4:10 AM: Fools below me
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Mar 23, 2011 4:09 AM: Good!!
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Review: Dumbbell Seated One-Leg Calf Raise
Mar 3, 2010 5:56 PM: Fools below me. This exercise isnt MEANT TO GO HEAVY! You use a lighter weight for this exercise. It brings out the deeper striations of your calf muscles.
Hold it with both hands, if using heavy Db's. Lighter, and go slower. It's intended to shape and define the upper head of your calves.
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Review: Dumbbell Seated One-Leg Calf Raise
Mar 2, 2010 1:20 AM: Dumbbell is not stable, also you have to put really heavy dumbbell to feel reistance.
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Review: Dumbbell Seated One-Leg Calf Raise
Feb 20, 2010 9:29 AM: Works soleus muscles. Good exercise, but the dumbbell(-s) is unsteady, controlling it distracts from thinking about calves.