achieving leaner looking thighs with insanity??

stephy1130
stephy1130 Posts: 14 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hey Everyone,

So recently from Novemeber till about Christmas I was going to the gym about 3-5 days a week doing 10-15 minutes on the stair master and then working out my legs about 2 or 3 of the days on the machines and also doing butt lifts with about 15 pound weights. I had done insanity about a year ago and loved the results from it. But after going to the gym I have gained about 10 pounds total and my hips and thighs have gotten bigger. My clothes, especially in the hip area have gotten alot tighter on me then they use to. Could I have gained muscle mass that time I was going to the gym and working out? Is it possible to lose this muscle and get leaner thighs, like how I use to. I just started my second round of insanity again because last time I saw great results, but I am nervous that this time I wont see the same results because my thighs have less fat this time around. So my questions are:

Is it possible to gain that much muscle in 2 months for my hips to get 2.5 inches bigger?
Can I achieve leaner thighs and lose inches on my hips and thighs especiall from insanity?

Advice will be helpful!

Thank you!

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  • stephy1130
    stephy1130 Posts: 14 Member
    bumpp
  • Roadie2000
    Roadie2000 Posts: 1,801 Member
    Yeah if you gained 10 lbs while you were going to the gym regularly you probably gained a some muscle. Just doing Insanity is not going to make your thighs leaner, but doing Insanity and eating on a deficit should make your thighs leaner. It's tough to say where the weight will come off first, depends on your body type really. Usually the first place you gain weight is the last place you lose weight. And you might not lose muscle in your legs if you're doing Insanity every day, but your legs could still look leaner if you eat on a deficit.
  • RGv2
    RGv2 Posts: 5,789 Member
    Yeah if you gained 10 lbs while you were going to the gym regularly you probably gained a some muscle. Just doing Insanity is not going to make your thighs leaner, but doing Insanity and eating on a deficit should make your thighs leaner. It's tough to say where the weight will come off first, depends on your body type really. Usually the first place you gain weight is the last place you lose weight. And you might not lose muscle in your legs if you're doing Insanity every day, but your legs could still look leaner if you eat on a deficit.

    Maybe some.....but for a female to gain 10lbs of muscle it usually takes months if not years....
  • bc2ct
    bc2ct Posts: 222 Member
    this is a simplification but here goes: you have two kinds of muscle - slow twitch and fast twitch. slow twitch muscles are endurance (aerobic) power houses that break down lactic acid into fuel and help power you through long duration physical activity (really anything over... say a max power burst for 30 seconds like a sprinter or a weight lifter might generate). fast twitch muscles are the other side of the equation - they generate power, thrust, and speed over short bursts of anaerobic work and produce lactic acid over longer periods of effort. both are important. now... as for aesthetics. if the look you are going for is that of an olympic endurance athlete (lean power like a long distance runner) then you want to train your slow twitch muscles... why? because they generally do not undergo hypertrophy to the same extent as fast twitch muscles -- that is to say they get powerful and you get fit but your muscles wont get as large!

    how do you train your slow twitch system?? aerobic exercise and endurance lifting... lots of both. i recommend that you dont give up on power lifting though because - aside from the benefits which you can read about elsewhere - you wont see the same gains in your second year of training as you did in your first in terms of hypertrophy.
  • bc2ct
    bc2ct Posts: 222 Member
    true... most women training at an elite level struggle to put on a 1/4lb of muscle a week... and this is when they are working out upwards of 4 hours a day and eating 3500+ kcal
  • Roadie2000
    Roadie2000 Posts: 1,801 Member
    Yeah if you gained 10 lbs while you were going to the gym regularly you probably gained a some muscle. Just doing Insanity is not going to make your thighs leaner, but doing Insanity and eating on a deficit should make your thighs leaner. It's tough to say where the weight will come off first, depends on your body type really. Usually the first place you gain weight is the last place you lose weight. And you might not lose muscle in your legs if you're doing Insanity every day, but your legs could still look leaner if you eat on a deficit.

    Maybe some.....but for a female to gain 10lbs of muscle it usually takes months if not years....
    Yeah, that's why I said...some.

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