......a study looking at systemic effects of local muscle activity in six heart failure patients found that calf muscle training improved overall exercise capacity without affecting maximal cardiac output
The abstract is here: Isolated Quadriceps Training Increases Maximal Exercise Capacity in Chronic Heart Failure and there is a bit of commentary here.
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results with a calf-muscle workout would seem more impressive than quads?
But, but, but... It's a non-functional exercise! NON-FUNCTIONAL! It's not a "real life" movement. It's only a matter of time until they are severely unbalanced and completely unable to walk. Criminal!
To clarify, this isn't calf muscle training, it was knee extension exercise, which isolates the quadriceps.
Also, to the above, no this is not what some may deem to be "functional" training. Let's remember that this study was geared towards improving exercise tolerance in individuals with Chronic Heart Failure. More intense modalities of training can be risky for these people until they've reduced their symptoms (if they can). Further, the study of KE exercise alone allowes for these scientists to isolate the working muscle (rather than whole-body exercise), while identifying its effects on systemic and cardiac measures.
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