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Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "
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Your calf muscles won't grow? It's not your fault...
Most men and women who do weight training complain that they can't get their calf muscles to grow. It's not just their imagination, American sports scientists reported in the late eighties in Physical Therapy. The researchers got their subjects to train their calf muscles well for eight weeks, and observed that their efforts had no effect on the size of the calf muscle.
Study
The subjects trained using a weight with which they could just manage 9-13 reps. Each training session consisted of four sets.
The subjects in the control group did no training.
The researchers measured the strength of the subjects' calf muscles before and after the training period. They measured the circumference of the calf muscles using a scan.
Results
The calf circumference did not increase as a result of the training. On the scans the researchers were able to see that the training had led to an increase of one millimetre in the triceps surae calf muscle of both the men and the women. This effect was not statistically significant either.
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