Standing Calf Raise (Machine)

How to do it

1. Step into the machine with your shoulders under the pads and the balls of your feet on the platform, heels free.
2. Straighten your legs without locking the knees hard and keep your torso upright.
3. Lower your heels below the platform to stretch the calves.
4. Rise onto your toes as high as you can.
5. Pause for a second at the top.
6. Lower slowly to a full stretch and repeat.

Progression: from easier to harder

1. Step 1
   • Bodyweight Calf Raise
2. Step 2 You are here
   • Standing Calf Raise (Machine)
   • Dumbbell Standing Calf Raise
   • Bodyweight Donkey Calf Raise
   • Calf Raise off a Step
   • Eccentric Calf Lowers
   • Calf Press
   • Kettlebell Calf Raise
   • Smith Machine Calf Raise
3. Step 3
   • Dumbbell Single Leg Calf Raise
   • Single-Leg Standing Calf Raise

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