Calf raises = sore hips?

I have done seated calf raises and calf raises on the leg press. Both seem to leave my hips sore the next two days. Is this normal? Do i need to stop doing them? or do i need to strengthen with some other exercise?

 

Are you dead fuckin serious?

 

now Bacon, hold on a second, maybe we're missing something here. Maybe its just a troll job or something

 

That's God's way of telling you you're gay for doing calf raises

 

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Whenever I did seated calf raises I got cramps in my hips. I'm not sure why.

I stopped doing them.

Strengthen your hips with squats and deads I guess.

 

May be because on seated calf raises you are putting your hip flexors into it to much instead of relying on the calves only...

On a side note.......... ghey

 

Machines suck. Try doing barbell/dumbell calf raises instead.

 

Instead of doing calf raises, try these alternatives:

a) running up a hill
b) jumping squats with a light weight making sure you are exploding off your tippy toes

They won't hurt the hips, and they will garner much better results.

 

I'm not sure how I feel about this calmly given and sarcasm free advice.

 

Thanks for the advice

On a side note, if you gave me some sort of b.s. refer to my previous statement. thnx.

 

Stretch your hips.


I mean... gay

 

Just use a lighter calf next time.

 

Maybe you have weak hips?

 

Go push a car up hill

 

When I saw urban post I assumed the thread was closed



Excellent. I wonder how long it will last

 

How's my favorite firefighter?

 

Heavily fatigued, jaded as fuck, and chemically imbalanced. I think that rotational levering I did the other day was really beneficial to my overall lower arm development actually. I'm pretty excited to incorporate it more often really, especially since I'm probably gonna have my left hand sliced open pretty soon here to have an occlusive cyst removed from my palm and I won't be able to do anything that puts direct pressure on that area (hence no bending or grippers with the left hand). so I may have to back off grip work that uses heavy loads a bit and go to some "heavy hammer" levering and expansion loops type things for a while. at least with my left. I may still train up my right on grippers.

I've begun to look at injuries and impasses to my training completely differently. they are opportunities to do things I don't normally do with equal intensity. My back gave out and I switched over to pistols. My left palm is gonna get fucked up so I'll switch to thick handled levering. I dunno, it's kinda fun to see where a setback takes me.

I feel disproportionately depressed for how optimistic that last paragraph would suggest I am. But I guess the reality is I don't have much going on in my life besides training right now, and I think it bums me out a bit to be so one sided.

And I'm reading catcher in the rye for the first time... that book sucks! I'm only 30 pages in but the protagonist bugs the shit out of me.