Is Phil Mickelson’s “Adonis” Calves as Good as He Hypes It? Easy Steps to Get It

Phil Mickelson has not been the most muscular guy around the greens. In fact, his chunky belly had put him at the butt end of ridicule for long. That all changed when the veteran golfer altered his diet and started hitting the gym. A few years later, now he is the proud ‘owner’ of two herculean calves. And boy are they headline-worthy.

Apparently, all these years, swallowing foot-in-mouth jokes, the veteran golfer was training his lower body so hard, that now, even Arnold Schwarzenegger would be envious. If that makes you curious, you are in the long line of fans who asked him for some tips. Lo-and-behold, the ‘nice guy’ Mickelson came up with a full tutorial for the gym rats.

Phil Mickelson shares the secret recipe for delicious curves

Mickelson’s first of the five-pronged approach can be done at home while relaxing on the sofa or a couch. You need to bring your legs straight perpendicular to your lower back. Next, point your toe outward and then inward. That’s it.

Do 10 reps for both legs in the morning and night. If at this point, you thought the American international must have been joking, you would be forgiven. Nevertheless, you are wrong and buckle yourself up for a bumpy (& sweaty) ride at the gym.

First, what the 53-year-old golfer does is known in common parlance as a standing barbell calf raise. But the veteran golfer made some slight modifications to it. After completing the exercise standing on an elevated surface, you need to do a single leg calf raise with the same weight on your shoulders. Not easy, right?

Next, is a resistance band workout where you have to position yourself in a push-up posture. Then move your legs laterally after hanging your toes from the end of the band. 

The fourth step is an ab-wheel workout. But you need to fold your legs upwards while your chin moves forward. For the final exercise, the 45-time-PGA-Tour winner again resorts to a resistance band. But this time he takes it a notch higher. It’s a leg raise exercise except for you need to move your knee towards your chest while sticking your toe to the resistance band.

Mickelson’s bulked-up calves have garnered him a lot of admiration on the internet and landed him an opportunity to work in a beer commercial. But this was not always the case. Two decades earlier, Mickelson was the most ridiculed golfer because of his body weight.

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Mickelson received a lot of disdain and criticism from golf fans and media alike because of his poor shape. Some media persons brutally taunted him in 1999 after he became a new father. 

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The Six-time Major winner found his ideal diet plan in intermittent fasting to shed the extra pounds and came back svelte and fit. Becoming the oldest Major winner in history at 51, he proved that one can come back stronger no matter how poor shape they have been.

After losing weight and training his calf muscles to speak for themselves, it makes one wonder what’s next in line for the veteran golfer.

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