Flip it and hit the front of your lower legs.
Move only at the ankle and pull the toes up hard, this hits the shins not the calves.
This flips lower-leg training around. With heels on a block and toes hanging off, pulling your toes up toward your shins loads the muscles along the front of the lower leg, the side of the calf complex that endless raises ignore. The fixed bar keeps the load steady while all the movement happens at the ankle. It earns its place for balancing out calf work and building the shin strength that supports running, jumping and heavy leg training.
Because the movement is reversed. Standard raises point the toes down using the back of the calf, this pulls the toes up, which trains the front of the lower leg. That is exactly the point.
Ankle balance. Lifters hammer the back of the calf for years and leave the front untouched, and runners and jumpers in particular feel the difference when the shin muscles can finally keep up.
Far less than your calf raise. The muscles on the shin side are small, so a light bar and strict ankle-only reps with a hard squeeze at the top beat piling on plates.
