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Sit on a bench for calf raises and check that the feet are half free and that you can completely stretch the calf muscles down. Pull your calves up, going as far (up) as you can. Make at the highest point a short pause of 1 or 2 seconds and go down.
Muscles
Primary muscles
- Soleus
Secondary muscles
- Calves (gastrocnemius)
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Description and images from the open wger exercise database, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (authors: admin, wger.de, jptjptjptjpt, Goulart). Translations by Calix are shared under the same license. Muscle diagrams: wger project (AGPL-3.0).