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One more reason why calves may be "more stubborn" than other muscles

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One more reason why calves may be “more stubborn” than other muscles⭕️

Calves are usually a hard muscle to develop amongst bodybuilders, and in yesterday’s post I’ve tried to cover “why” that could be the case, trying to take a look at the anatomy & physiological differences that can suggest us how to best train them.

Today, I want to cover another potential reason that may or may not be an important factor, but it’s definitely an interesting one to look into.

And that reason is “recruitment” of the calves muscle fibers and the potentially greater difficulty of recruiting large muscles of our body, that has been shown to be the case by researchers.

If mechanical tension is the main driver of hypertrophy, activation is certainly an important precursor, because it dictates which fibers work hard enough to experience these high levels of mechanical tension that are experienced during max effort sets.

If Calves are mainly made of Type I fibers, then recruitment will be even more important, since we know that Type II fibers (later recruited) respond better to resistance training.

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