Calf Raises - With Bands

Calf Raises - With Bands is a isolation strength exercise using bands that trains the calves.

Open in MyoAmigo →

StrengthBandsBeginnerIsolationPush

Primary muscles: Calves

How to do it

  1. Grab an exercise band and stand on it with your toes making sure that the length of the band between the foot and the arms is the same for both sides.
  2. While holding the handles of the band, raise the arms to the side of your head as if you were getting ready to perform a shoulder press. The palms should be facing forward with the elbows bent and to the sides. This movement will create tension on the band. This will be your starting position.
  3. Keeping the hands by your shoulder, stand up on your toes as you exhale and contract the calves hard at the top of the movement.
  4. After a one second contraction, slowly go back down to the starting position.
  5. Repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions.

Track it with MyoAmigo

MyoAmigo pre-fills every set of the Calf Raises - With Bands from last time, charts your estimated 1RM trend so you can see strength move without testing a true max, and flags a stall with a concrete fix. It also credits this work toward your weekly Calves volume on the MyoMap heatmap. New to the movement? Start with picking a working weight and progressive overload.

Related Calves exercises

Stretching

Ankle Circles

Other

Anterior Tibialis-SMR

Other

Balance Board

Barbell

Barbell Seated Calf Raise

Machine

Calf Press

Machine

Calf Press On The Leg Press Machine

Dumbbell

Calf Raise On A Dumbbell

Stretching

Calf Stretch Elbows Against Wall

Stretching

Calf Stretch Hands Against Wall

← All exercises · Browse by muscle

iPhone · Apple Watch · Web · out now

Meet your new
training amigo.

MyoAmigo is on the App Store — free to log, sync, and keep your full history forever. Prefer the browser? Train on the web →