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>>76449932
>Why do you think your theories of muscle hypertrophy are valuable if they do not model reality?
gastrocnemius:
function is plantar flexing the foot (pointing toes) at the ankle joint and flexing the leg at the knee joint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrocnemius_muscle
that's theory bot, not much of a theory is it? it's just fact, simple fact of life bot
but i came around it via practice: i literally got to "muscular failure" 100 times over both with straight knee and bent knee doing unilateral calf raises with little to no effect on calves
and then i discovered this:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NfwtDIscQm8
and never looked back :D

>i don't comprehende
don't play retarded botino cretino, gastrocnemius is wrapping around bones of knee joint with extended knee, even if it could do calf raises that bone poking it would prevent u form getting any useful for hypertrophy contraction and soleus is conjoined with gastrocnemius at ahilles tendon so u aren't even getting thatwith calf raises D:
it is all perfectly logical and corroborated by my own experimentations