Originally Posted by flyefisher
Thanks for that. That's what I was looking for. What about calves? Are they their own entity since they don't have opposing muscles?
The shin muscles are the opposing muscle to the calves. Very hard to train. There are very little people that train there shins although as a cyclist your training them unawaringly. If your putting 100% into the push of the pedal stroke and 100% into the pull of the pedal stroke you will come close to getting the 50-50 balance between shin and calves.