WHY YOUR CALF IS CALLED “THE SECOND HEART.

This is exactly why the elder sister is always... called the second mom. ❤️show more

GM. Sunday is a great day to take your... calf to the beach.show more

Why would you want to kill such a child?... Where is your heart? Where is your conscience?show more

Did you know? Your calf has a muscle that... helps pump blood back to your heart. It’s called the soleus, and it’s part of your peripheral heart. When it contracts, it squeezes the deep veins in your calf and pushes blood up against gravity. Valves stop it falling back. But if you sit still all day, this pump sits idle while blood pools in your legs. Mind you, standing calf raises won't fully challenge it. With the knee straight, the gastrocnemius (the muscle on the surface) is free to share the load, because it crosses the knee. So the soleus always gets help and never works at its limit. But if you bend the knee, that flips. A bent knee shortens the gastrocnemius until it goes slack and can barely produce force. Also called ‘active insufficiency’ in exercise science, where a two-joint muscle, shortened at one end, drops out of the movement. So the gastroc switches off, and the soleus, which only crosses the ankle, has to carry the whole thing on its own. That's why the best way to hit it is a bent knee: seated calf raises, or this deep squat version. It’s nearly 80% slow-twitch, so it loves volume and barely fatigues. Sustained work here has even been shown to improve blood sugar control for hours. Train it deep, slow, and often.show more

Why is it called The Mall?

[WIP] The second of the three final sections is... almost finished. It is a part of the virtual world called the threshold. Thank you always for your support.show more

cupid called, he says I’ve stolen your heart 🪽

Fitness friends of the interwebs Why won’t my calf... stop tweaking? Dehydration?show more

A two-headed calf, born with a condition called polycephaly.

A mother cow only produces milk for her calf.... Indian dairy farmers using a practice called ‘Khaal baccha’ (‘skin baby’) where a male calf is starved to death and the flesh is removed from its body and stuffed with hay. via @alsaceanimalsave IG #dairytruthshow more

Why are lions still called “King of the Jungle”?... They literally scatter the second a real giant like an elephant walks up. Hard to look royal when you're running for your life!show more

The Reason why Mahadev is called pashupatinath 🙏

The second is why we do the first 😂🤣

Don't ask why the telemetry API is called SPYNET

Everytime a begginer throws a calf kick at me... i stop and say that check would have fucked your shin. Throw a proper low kick or if your a calf kicker, set it up properly. Any decent thaiboxer will check them too hard. This is why i fully stop. Fuck thatshow more

nawww why is the second one always so hard man

Your gut has 200-600 million neurons. More than the... spinal cord. It can run digestion entirely on its own, even if the vagus nerve is cut. That is why it's called the "second brain." This visualization shows the nerve plexuses surrounding the small and large intestine. #EntericNervousSystem All animations created using the SciePro 3D anatomy model.show more