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Originally Posted by
umairsemail
Can you start doing calf raises and get back to us with the results? I am in no shape to do so. Let's see if they can be made progressively stronger like other body parts (i would say yes). If that is the case, and since the calves do play an important role during sprinting/jumping, they should be not be ignored in a strength training sense. We do squats to improve the strength side of the equation for the hip/knee joints, let's see what happens if we do the same with the ankle joint. There are hip dominant and knee dominant movements that athletes do, why not ankle dominant?