[Matěj Kohout]

Also to add, I wouldn’t even think about it right now at your age! Just eat, train and focus on nailing them 2 things

Yeah I was just curious because I’ve come across some website long time ago but I forgot it

[Matěj Kohout]

Hiya Matěj, Alison gave some really helpful advice that you should consider. If you consistently feel pain just doing that movement even after warming up really well, I’d suggest seeing an osteo/chiro/physio and letting them have a look. From there they should let you know if there is any real issue and rehab work to assist. If you don’t consistently feel pain and this is a one off I wouldn’t worry. Out of interest, do you feel this when doing leg extension with both legs?

I do not feel it when im doing leg extensions with both legs but I had to start doing single leg extensions because there is very light weight at our gym

[Matěj Kohout]

Hello mate.

Been a little stuck with the same trouble when I have tried to grow my legs

First : you have to establish a mobility stretching routine on the days you dont do legs

It goes with hips, knees, ankles

The part painful on the knee is the junction of the quads onto the knee, and you feel the knee a little but weak.

That’s a cumulation or lack of mobility stretching, also potentially too heavy weights for not enough warm up and feeder set.

Also to make sure everything is totally in range; i would check with a good physio if the joints are into their supposed angle, cause we never know, sometimes just a hip/knee manipulation, and it’s all good.

My physio seen some trigger points onto my inside quads insertion to the knee, on top of a lack of mobility routine and recovery routine, once I have added the missing details, the pain was gone

Thank you! This is really helpful to me and I will start doing my mobility stretching, I’ve had this problem for quite a long time when doing single leg extensions and I hope this will help. Once again, thank you very much.

[Matěj Kohout]

I only had it in the single leg extensions, I’ve had this problem for a few workouts but it always goes away after 2-3 reps into the leg extensions but I dont want that because it is blocking me so I cant do full reps

[Matěj Kohout]

I mean I’d simply just use it on a different day to the day you train legs or any session that has any heavy lower back load

So theres no problem with doing it on rest days? Because I do U/L/R

[Matěj Kohout]

Do you have any other kit in your house or do you do all of your sessions from the gym?

I do all sessions at the gym but as I said, I want to use it since we bought it

[Matěj Kohout]

Is this because your gym does not have one and you are wanting to use this specific exercise?

It does have one but since we bought it home I want to use it… sorry for late respond

[Matěj Kohout]

What’s your current goal with regards to the calorie intake?

Whats your sleep like?

When was your last deload?

When are your rest days?

There’s definitely more information needed here..

I want to keep my calories at 3k because I have started eating properly like 2 months ago and I will keep adding by the time, I hope I will notice more gains by the time too.

I’m sleeping really well, 8-9 hours.

My last deload I only remember it was kinda a long time ago but after the deload I got weaker so I didnt do it since then.

I do U/L/R/U/L/R/R so I have 3 rest day.

[Matěj Kohout]

Buddy there’s so much missing info here that we would need to be able to answer this question properly.

We don’t know what your diet is like, training split/volume, what you’re doing outside the gym with sleep, recovery etc..

I’ve been eating 3k kcal a day, I’m doing U/L (I already written the excersises and volume in my U/L topic) and outside the gym I’m not really doing anything special, not going anywhere just chill and eat mostly

[Matěj Kohout]

If you’ve maxed out the machines at the gym – think about how you can make that movement harder – sitting in the stretch longer , tempo changes, rep increases – theres always a way to make things a little more challenging . TUT style sets are always fun for calves , so that could be something to incorporate if you’ve maxed out the machines 🙂

Yes I’m trying to make it harder each time but there will come times sooner or later that I’m gonna make it the hardest and there will be no other option than doing more reps, and by that I mean 20-30+ reps and I don’t really know if that’s okay to put that much volume

[Matěj Kohout]

It’s just another variation . And once that’s maxed out they move onto a diff variation

I already maxed out almost every machine at the gym I go to, so do u think I should start doing high reps?[/quote]

Can you set up a smith machine with a couple of DC blocks?[/quote]
Yes I could do that

[Matěj Kohout]

Hey buddy, as Jordan mention it’s just a different variation and it’s good to keep variety in your training especially for calves. I like to mix up donkey calf raise, seated calf raise, standing calf raise, calf pressing. I like to also use a variety of angles and rep ranges just to keep hitting them differently.

I will definitely try that in my next Lower session, thank you very much

[Matěj Kohout]

It’s just another variation . And once that’s maxed out they move onto a diff variation

I already maxed out almost every machine at the gym I go to, so do u think I should start doing high reps?

[Matěj Kohout]

Alright thank you all, I really appreciate your help

[Matěj Kohout]

Yup all fine

Thank you Jordan