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Dumbbell Seated One-Leg Calf Raise

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Dumbbell Seated One-Leg Calf Raise — start position
Start
Dumbbell Seated One-Leg Calf Raise — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryCalves

How to do it

  1. 01

    Place a block on the floor about 12 inches from a flat bench.

  2. 02

    Sit on a flat bench and place a dumbbell on your upper left thigh about 3 inches above your knee.

  3. 03

    Now place the ball of your left foot on the block. This will be your starting position.

  4. 04

    Raise your toes up as high as possible as you exhale and you contract your calf muscle. Hold the contraction for a second.

  5. 05

    Slowly return to the starting position, stretching as far down as possible.

  6. 06

    Repeat for your prescribed number of repetitions and then repeat with the right leg.

In the app

Dumbbell Seated One-Leg Calf Raise appears when you own dumbbells and the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have dumbbells

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

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