Melanie by alzef I'd like to tell you all a true story about a girl from my school called Melanie. Mel was a year below me in high school, though we were pretty close in age, and she was a very talented tennis player. We were in one class together, and that was Sports Science, for which I am very glad, as you shall soon find out. Mel was a pretty girl but by no means drop-dead gorgeous. She had shoulder length blonde hair, blue eyes and a great tan, which she maintained by spending winter breaks in the tropics. She was about 5'8" and I'd guess she weighed around 125-130 pounds, most of which was well-toned muscle. Mel obviously kept in great shape to be one of the top junior tennis players in the country, but her calves were way beyond the needs of a tennis player. They were huge! And I'm not just saying they were big for her age - they were seriously huge calves. She was 15 the year we had that class together and I reckon they were past 16" then and still growing. Mel was a joy to walk behind down the corridor or especially going up the stairs. After sports science I'd try and get behind her as she went to her locker on the next floor. Her split calves would bulge sexily as she took each step. Even from the front her calves were very visible, and they would touch well before her feet were together. All in all there were a lot of opportunities to check out her calves but I was really longing to measure them and feel their hardness. One day my chance finally came. Our class was experimenting with a computer program that would process given information to work out a person's ideal sport according to their body type. We were paired off and after months of trying I finally got paired with Mel. We all changed into our gym gear and each pair went off to a corner of the PE department and Mel and I found ourselves in the weight room with 2 other pairs. The other pairs quickly exited through the side door for a smoke so Mel and I were alone. There were a lot of boring tests like the co-ordination one and so- on but we also had to do some basic physical measurements such as height and arm-span. My plan was to fool Mel, who was not the brightest girl (but very nice), into letting me measure her calves. I made sure that I was in control of the forms we were filling out and when we got to the vertical jump I thought I'd be in with a good chance. "OK Mel we've gotta do vertical jump next and then it says we've got to measure calve and thigh circumference." "What?" "I'm just going on what it says here. I guess they want to know about muscle size relative to strength or something ... " "Oh well, if that's what it says." I went first in the jump and at 6'1" managed to just clear the 10' mark. Mel then measured my calves and thighs and I was getting very excited by the touch of her hand on my leg. "15 1/2 inches and 24 inches," she said. Mel then got set to jump and I was surprised when she reached 9'6", but she seemed kind of disappointed. I watched as she tried a couple more times, enjoying watching her calves get a pump, but she only gained another half an inch. I then told her about this technique I'd heard of where you do some low-rep/high weight squats, then do your vertical leap. I'd never tried it but I thought it would be cool to see her lift some heavy weights with her strong legs. We went over to the squat rack and I put 10kg on each side for a 40kg total but Mel laughed and said "no-way," so I took them off and reached for the 5kg plates but she laughed some more. "What?" "I meant no-way, that's too light - try loading it to 80kg." I couldn't believe my luck - here was a sexy muscular girl flaunting her strength essentially for my benefit. Mel knocked off 5 reps easily and then went back to try her leap again, her calves and quads well pumped. "You ready to write a new best down for me?" "Ready when you are Mel." On her first jump she reached 9'7", but she still wanted more. She went back to the rack and did 3 more reps at 90kg then proceeded to reach 9'8". "That's more like it. Now you'd better measure these babies while they're pumped," she teased as she stood up on her toes, pumping her huge calves. I quickly grabbed the tape and wrapped round her rock-hard calve - 16 3/4". I was getting really excited and could barely contain myself when she invited me to measure her thighs. Her skin was so smooth and perfectly tanned with a fair bit of definition -more than you'd expect from a tennis player. I got the tape settled and it read 24 1/2"! I was dumbfounded. Here was an otherwise ordinary looking girl with calves and quads that put me to shame, with strength enough to crush me too. Mel then decided that she wanted a better pump for her calves and a re-measure. She walked over and started doing calve raises with nearly the entire stack. She finished 30 reps and her calves were looking huge, when she got off and told me to measure them again. I was amazed - her pump had added nearly 1/2" to her calves! Mel revelled in her lower body supremacy, but before I could take any further the bell went and she put her track suit back on. I never got any further than that with Mel, but she would often give me a knowing smile as we passed in the hall, and she'd always squeeze her calves extra hard when I was walking behind her. (c) 2003 alzef