Dealing with muscular legs.

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  • mantium999
    mantium999 Posts: 1,490 Member
    Rock THEM Chun Li's. I also would like pics of them, OP

    You win the MFP title prize for today!!!
  • jrodri0105
    jrodri0105 Posts: 91 Member
    If you want "lean legs," u need to keep lifting heavy with your lower body too. If you're trying to lose fat than you must stay on a calorie deficit. For pear shapes we tend to lean out in our upper bodies first. So, if you start to noticing that you're too lean in the upper body. You may want to change your goals and do a calories surplus to gain muscle. Until you feel you put more weight on your upper body than you'll go back to a calorie deficit. It will take a couple of cycles between calorie deficit & calorie surplus, back & forth till you're happy. That's the only way you're going to eventually lose the body fat on your lower legs.
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    well for me it's primarily genetics. i've been a distance runner for years, daily clocking 8+ miles. i am short and stocky, my legs are thick and muscular, and no matter how long i run they will never be thin, skinny legs.

    i am learning to embrace it, and be thankful for my short, compact, stockiness. i tell myself that is what allows me to run the distances i do without (too many or too debilitating) injury (yet) *knock on wood*
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    p.s. I also ran a lot when I was at my lowest weight ..., and my legs were still muscular looking. I was less than 90 pounds at the time (I'm 4'10"). So you can't change genetics.
    this! said much more succinctly than i.
  • rogerOb1
    rogerOb1 Posts: 318 Member
    well for me it's primarily genetics. i've been a distance runner for years, daily clocking 8+ miles. i am short and stocky, my legs are thick and muscular, and no matter how long i run they will never be thin, skinny legs.

    i am learning to embrace it, and be thankful for my short, compact, stockiness. i tell myself that is what allows me to run the distances i do without (too many or too debilitating) injury (yet) *knock on wood*

    You may well be short, but based on that pic, I don't think you'd qualify as "stocky". You look quite lean.
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    well for me it's primarily genetics. i've been a distance runner for years, daily clocking 8+ miles. i am short and stocky, my legs are thick and muscular, and no matter how long i run they will never be thin, skinny legs.

    i am learning to embrace it, and be thankful for my short, compact, stockiness. i tell myself that is what allows me to run the distances i do without (too many or too debilitating) injury (yet) *knock on wood*
    i think i'm missing the chun li vibe.....
  • riverain
    riverain Posts: 55 Member
    If you are going to embrace your thighs, might as well have strong & shapely over flabby! I've always had seriously deadly thunder thighs (I always had the muscle, and now lots of fat on top of it). They looked the best when I was doing lots of leg work. It made sure they kept the cartoon curves and didn't turn into lumpy logs. My goal is to work my thighs back into thoroughbred form with a combination of strength, jogging, and pilates. As far as long distance running, I don't know what it does for muscles... but if you like it, keep doing it!

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