Lifehack: Big Calves Edition

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I have always had big calves, (it was such that, even back way before I started lifting, and i was really slim with very little upper body muscle, people would comment and say, 'wtf is up with your calves they are huge', people said I had frog legs kek). And I of course never actually did any conscious 'training' them of whatever at all.

It came to me, and of course this is just a theory, that it may have to do with the way I walk. Upon examining the way I walk, whenever I walk, my stride pushes all the way ontothe very edge of the ball of my foot, forcing my calf to 'raise' in order to push my stride through that way. My friends all the time say that I walk way to fucking fast, and I always tell them, im not trying to at all. Its just the my strides go to the fullest point of my calves pushing through the end of the stride.

I may not be explaining it very well, but if you see someone with big, or muscled, or shaped calves, (whether or not it looks like they lift,) take a look at the way they walk. chances are that instead of 'sitting back' onto their heels and sinking into their knees when they walk, they most likely do what i do.

I have always walked like this naturally, so I dont think about it. But it looks like it is not the natural way for most people.

Again, this may be way off the mark, but try just going for a walk around your block or whatever, and push fully through the full range of your calves in your stride. You will probably feel tight in your hip flexor, as it will force it to stretch much more than its used to. But I gaurantee you will only be able to keep up this "full stride" for a little bit before having to go back to sitting back into your heels and knees.

Thats the thing, is ive always walked like this naturally, so i dont even notice it at all, and feel no stress or strain or fatigue ons my hips, legs, or calves. so maybe thats why they have always been big without me ever 'trying' to train them.