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Bigboi118 · Joined: 26 Sep 2008 Posts: 80

What is the best cardio for building legs, mostly calves. Im guessing running/sprinting but does n e one know?

MrCheese · Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 49

Calves would be some uphill sprinting in my opinion.

rynuku · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 98

maybe for exercising slow twitch fibers, and itll help with your cardiovascular endurance but cardio really isnt meant to build muscle anywhere

swanso5 · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:02 am Post subject:

spot on

i was gonna say none

squats and deadlifts do though

littleshelly · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 118

Best things I have found are walking at an incline, sprinting, squats and lunges.

elti54 · Joined: 29 Oct 2008 Posts: 6

Ill give you some football drills u can use

-Frog Jumps
get in a squat position, get on the balls of your feet, use your arms and legs to explode yourself up into the air, knee's to your chest, then land on the balls of your feet again. Do this up and down the field... trust me ull feel the burn;)
-Foot Fire
Get into an athletic position, on the balls of you feet, pick your feet up off the ground, (left right left right left right left right etc.) Only bring your feet an inch off the ground when you do so, due this as fast as u can.
-40 yard dashes
self explanitory
-Uphill sprints
self explanitory

Bigboi118 · Joined: 26 Sep 2008 Posts: 80

thanks for the feedback, I run early morning on the weekend, I got like a whole football pitch to myself so will try out some of the ideas

elti54 · Joined: 29 Oct 2008 Posts: 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWJs2Gof538&feature=related

the first like.... 5 seconds of that clip, where they are all standing up, running on spot bringing their feet of the ground, that is foot fire.

this is the closest thing i could find to what i was talking about for Frog Jumps (aka squat jumps) i call them frog jumps because... squat jumps are just directly into the air... and they arent explosive at all. You dont bring your knees to your chest and most people dont land on the balls of their feet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZZc18uX-q8

so take the half this motion, the squating part... now when you jump, use your arms to explode up into the air, bring your knees to your chest, and land on the balls of ur feet when you come down... Reload and repeat up and down the field.