How do you tell someone they are doing meme exercises without it sounding condescending?

Sauce?

>Makeup in the gym

How about
"what are you doing it that way for you fucking retard that's wrong"

hello autism

Don't. Unless the person is a friend or if the person is going to hurt themselves, keep to yourself. You aren't the personal trainer of mankind.

saw someone doing this a week ago

not going to hate on it because i'm sure he's doing it for a reason but god damn it had me fucked up when i saw it

You need to look like you can barely contain your laughter at the stupid shit they're doing. You also need to not be DYEL and preferably have a bar loaded with 4+ plates somewhere in their field of view.

I always shit on people doing calf raises. It never gets old.

Whats wrong with calf raises?

They don't do jack fucking shit.

muh dick

lol

>that autistic guy who can't keep his shit opinions to himself even though nobody asks for them

why do you need to tell someone something, egotistical faggot? Do you want to feel you're in the position to teach something without being the appointed supervisor/PT nor their parent nor their friend? keep your shitty opinions for yourself unless you're either asked for them or you see someone doing something objectively dangerous
If you want to pet noobs get at least one of those PT "diplomas" or shut the fuck up
I see people doing dumb shit all the time but I won't nag them with pretentious lessons; when someone asks for a few tips I'd gladly give few advices, but only in such case

Measure your calves. Relaxed and flexed. At their thickest point. Then do your calf raises for a few months/years and repeat.

if you don't know them then stfu
if they're not actively endangering others then stfu

Even if they're trying to guillotine themselves in the decline bench? There has to be a line somewhere

Start putting more weight on them fuckboy your calves can take a lot

And then they still don't do shit.

Oh, you're targeting your antemedial glutes? Try this awesome exercise too!

>he thinks you can build muscle everywhere except your calves, that's entirely genetics.

"What are you targeting?"
"Chest"
"That exercise hits mostly triceps"

Who cares if you sound condescending, if you're providing informative feedback and they get upset then they shouldn't even be in the gym

most people bounce the heavy weight up again with their Achilles tendon, the muscles arent activated that way. Pause 1 second at the bottom and 2 seconds at the top.

I dont do weighted calf raises but one legged every day. Increase the numbers when its too easy. Volume is the way to got for calves in my experience

post pics of your calves pls.

Shouldn't you be the one posting your calves?

>implying I ever said that

This guy gets it.

Walking with heavy loads works well too. Farmers walks, walks with a heavy backpack and such.

Was he just holding the bar and hanging? That could be a clever way to decompress the spine

he was doing pullups

so upsidedown underhand pulldowns I guess

Honestly, this. Calves are muscles that respond to progressive overload. Former fatties have huge calves because they carried all that fat around, exercising the calves constantly with their heavy weight.
Whether you go for volume or heavy weight does not really matter as much as being CONSISTENT with it and doing it correctly. Pause at the bottom, no bouncing. Pause at the top. Slowly go down and up. Every fucking day.

sauce?

who is this semen demon

dude if i knew how to grow my calves, i would.

we all know that squats build legs, chins build lats, curls build biceps. but everyone's got their own theories about what builds calves. its by far the most genetics dependent body part. i used to slave on my calves and got nowhere. my little bro has absolutely massive calves and all he does is play football twice a week.

Then you should probably simulate playing football for your calves.

Explain why I've been training calves 2x a week for YEARS and they're still mediocre while every other part of my body has grown. Keep in mind that I do high rep and heavy sets.

he's literally the only one on the team with big calves

my old ass dad has massive calves too. its largely genetics. one thing i tend to see is cyclists and runners in the street with larger calves than average, but there's also plenty of them without.

i think there are sure fire ways to build calves, but only if you are someone who is genetically built for having big calves anyway.

You don't.

I've tried before and people just think you're douchebag so I just let them carry on with their terrible form and ego lifting.

I don't want them to make gains anyway. Hope they get injured.

fuck off

I saw a guy at the gym once who was using some kind of pulldown machine (just the rope and weights, this didn't require you to sit down or be in a specific position, you could stand/sit/etc.) but he had the hand holder deal around his neck and was on all fours moving back and forth. I guess he was pulling with his neck?

Also saw someone the same day doing standing barbell curlrows. He would lift the bar usually until his forearms were around parallel to the floor, then pull the bar toward himself. Some of the lifts were curls and some were rows but most were curlrows.

unless you know their goals and their routine in its entirety, don't give out advice unless they ask for it.

for example the other day i saw a clueless looking guy swinging a tiny dumbbell around his head. was internally keking, but then he went on to do some decently heavy OHP at which point I realized he was obviously warming up his shoulders

>Hope they get injured.

Idiot.

It's porn

Really convenient way of tossing out any evidence opposing what you think

"Oh, they were gonna have big calves anyway"

>overhead deadlifts
alright which one of you was it

You don't.
You shout them down like the retard they are if they're in serious danger, suicide benching or pulling way too heavy with a cat back, etc.
Otherwise, leave them the fuck alone. If they don't progress it's their problem.

not what i meant. i wasn't too clear i now realize.

what i meant was that if one has good calf building genetics then calf building exercises will work. if you don't have good calf building genetics then they wil a tiny bit but its barely worth wasting the effort for such minimal gain.

this applies to all muscles to some extent (a lot of guys struggle with their chests, delts etc despite hitting them hard and putting up good numbers) but vastly more for calves. just look at bodybuilders with small calves. its by far the most persistently lacking body part among them, and their job is to grow their muscles using roids.

Tits look like a pain in the ass

nah, works your core.

>be me OHP lmao 1pl8 for 10 reps (5 months liftan), lasts reps are slow af
>old dyel manlet comes up to me and tells me that exercise is bad for my back if I don't ""control the weight""
what should I have done? I just nodded and replied "alright thanks I'll watch my form" before starting my next set with the exact same weight and form.

nah, youd mumble something edgy to yourself autistically under your breath, go home, fidget with your hand spinner for a while, probably jack off to the thought of her while crying from hating yourself so much

yes but which porn

Big tits are. Some girls get reduction surgery cause the weight gives them back problems

Do more reps with higher weight faggot. My calves are excellent, don't excuse yourself

Gonna need a name

You were probably doing shitty push presses rather than actual strict presses. I see this all the time. Your spasmodic flailing is what caught his attention.

this

1plate for 10 reps after 5 months is insanely high, probably on par with a 405 squat for 5 reps ie impossible without being 300lbs

exactly this
this is why our society will fail

Somebody please sauce this

the most genetic dependent areas in terms of building mass are in the upper body, specifically your traps and delts. That's where the highest density of androgen receptors is. That's also why you can easily spot roiders by looking at their upper body. Their traps and delts blow up when they start to gear.

source? also is that talking LBM because delts are tiny anyway so even a large relative increase is very small LBm whereas calves are a much larger muscle

>The main function of the androgen receptor is as a DNA-binding transcription factor that regulates gene expression;[12] however, the androgen receptor has other functions as well.[13] Androgen regulated genes are critical for the development and maintenance of the male sexual phenotype.

>One function of androgen receptor that is independent of direct binding to its target DNA sequence, is facilitated by recruitment via other DNA-binding proteins. One example is serum response factor, a protein that activates several genes that cause muscle growth.[21]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_receptor#Genetics references

The purpose of this study was to investigate the immunohistochemical expression of androgen receptors (AR) in human vastus lateralis and trapezius muscles and to determine whether long-term strength training and self-administration of androgenic-anabolic steroids are accompanied by changes in AR content. Biopsy samples were taken from eight high-level power-lifters (P), nine high-level power-lifters who used anabolic steroids (PAS) and six untrained subjects (U). Myonuclei and AR were visualised in cross-sections stained with the monoclonal antibody against AR and 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole. The proportion of AR-containing myonuclei per fibre cross-section was higher in the trapezius than in the vastus lateralis (P

"hey. would you like some free advice? next ones are paid tho"

"no"

"alrighty then :D"

dude just be really fat for some years, it works for me my calves are fucking huge

The only time I've ever anything to a stranger is that he's going to hurt his back by trying to squat while his back hunched over. He thanked me and asked me to show him proper form.

Just be as blunt as possible. You see someone bending their back doing DLs wrong? Tell them they're going to hurt themselves and show them proper form. People did this to me when I started in high school.

Be real, women go for flirting and attention. You ever see a woman fail a set? Me neither.

>You ever see a woman fail a set? Me neither.
Pic related unironically

Gonna need a name.

i see you fell for the diddly meme

instagram.com/ohgeelizzyp/?hl

Retard, you're push pressing

well shit

Gotta train them everyday

>real nigga

Just do it member to b urself

this is just perfect female genetics

>PT Diplomas
Paying £200 to do a 3 day course made for mongs who failed in school doesn't make you some kind of expert.

this webm reminds me of prison school

jelly faggots. my legs are perfectly locked whenever I press. I was with a friend and he told me old manlet said that to everyone about everything.

What's your 1RM?

how the fuck does her back stand those melons.
mine hurts already from doing regular shit.

Easy as. If its a chick, dont care about how you sound, they can smell doubt. If its a dude, leave the fucker alone.

You know the rules

Women initiate it user. Most dudes just dont pick up on it. They'll make eye contact with you if they're interested. If you shy away, they might try again, but will get bored quickly. If you can hold it without looking like a fuckwit, the next stage is
>hi, im....

Sweet jebus them tiddies doe

reverse ohp?

pics or gtfo

you don't

odds are you don't know what you're talking about and you're sound like an annoying retard 100% of the time. mind your own business, a gym isn't the high school lunch room.