3 Muscle Groups You’re Not Training

It’s time to make a change

Two and a calf men

If you’re exercising regularly and not seeing the results you want, it’s time to add these into your programming. Ignoring these muscle groups is a mistake. It opens you up to imbalances, poor performance, and a whole host of injuries from plantar fasciitis to achilles tendinopathy to chronic lower back pain.

Not only will you perform better, but you will instantly feel better. Why? Because these muscles are chronically under-trained. And training under-used muscles is like that first sip of an ice cold beer with your buddies: Aaaaaaaaahhhhh.

So let’s look at the three muscle groups you’re not training:

Calves

Remember that guy on MTV’s “True Life: I Want The Perfect Body” where he got calf implants and it was a horror scene and he went on to do gay porn and then announced on the Tyra Banks Show that he wasn’t gay anymore? He really could have avoided all of that just by doing some heel raises off a step at the gym.

You have two calf muscles: the big meaty one that everyone thinks of when they think of a calf muscle (gastrocnemius), and then the smaller one underneath it (soleus) which attaches to your Achilles tendon. Together, they’re responsible for pointing your foot (the motion that allows you to walk…