Classic Bodybuilding: Don “The Ripper” Ross’s Mass-Building Routine for Stubborn Calves Don "The Ripper" Ross in competition shape. I have never had good calf development. My calves were always stubborn and the hardest body part for me to grow. Those two opening sentences are completely true for my personal calf development. But I also think they’re the truth for a lot of lifters and bodybuilders; there are probably an endless sea of trainees who have uttered the very same words. In fact, there have been a lot of bodybuilders in general that have had an almost stellar physique in every way but with one lone exception : they had poor calf development. When I first started bodybuilding, there was nothing that would make my calves grow. I would have swore to you up-and-down at the time that I had tried everything to make them grow, too, but they just didn’t seem ...
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