lose thigh and calf muscle

kokomiiau

okay, so my thighs and calves are really muscley and I would like to know what i could do to burn the leg muscle and get nice straight legs? I've been running and i used to Jump rope but then my thighs and calves have gotten huge any exercises to reduce them?

mccindy72

okay, so my thighs and calves are really muscley and I would like to know what i could do to burn the leg muscle and get nice straight legs? I've been running and i used to Jump rope but then my thighs and calves have gotten huge any exercises to reduce them?

You have the muscles you have. If you are doing some kind of muscle gaining work you might want to cut back on that, but there aren't 'muscle reducing' exercises. Be glad you have them, lots of people would be happy to have them.

kokomiiau

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ninerbuff

Only way to have muscle atrophy is to not use them at all. Even just walking will keep them activated. Genetics determines shape and size and you can't change your genetics.

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usmcmp

Genetics or being stuck in a wheelchair for a very long time.

Instead of trying to change something you can't you need to learn to love your body.

BusyRaeNOTBusty

Define "huge".

I'm guessing your profile picture is some kind of goal?

kokomiiau

They are bulky :grumble: they are not straight... I would post a pic of what i mean but i don't know how.
I want straight legs like Cara Delevigne.... My legs bump out from the back of the thighs so there is no straight line.

BusyRaeNOTBusty

We can't change our genetics just because we want too.

Models are models because they have the genetics that dictate they look that way, and the fashion industry has decided that clothes look best on women who look that way. They really are walking manikins. It's all about the clothes and not the women wearing them.

Muscles are healthy, natural, normal and pretty awesome actually. Without them we couldn't function in life. Think of people who really can't walk, whose muscles really have atrophied. How would they feel knowing how many perfectly normal functioning people take their muscles for granted?

Cara Delevigne actually does have some muscle definition anyway. Her legs are not a "straight line".

release_the_kraken

The odd things chicks post....

kwantlen2051

Wish we can just swap legs. I would love to have more muscles in my legs!!!

ninerbuff

They are bulky :grumble: they are not straight... I would post a pic of what i mean but i don't know how.
I want straight legs like Cara Delevigne.... My legs bump out from the back of the thighs so there is no straight line.

Those are hamstrings and have a function. Envying how others look is only going to make you despise how your legs are. You're dealt the cards you're dealt in the genetics area. So take what you got and make them the best that they can be. For every person you wish you were, other are wishing they had your genetics for muscle.

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mccindy72

They are bulky :grumble: they are not straight... I would post a pic of what i mean but i don't know how.
I want straight legs like Cara Delevigne.... My legs bump out from the back of the thighs so there is no straight line.

I am a size 1-2. I have to buy curvy bootcut jeans in my size because my legs are muscular and the straight cut legs are too tight. That's just the way my legs are. You can't change your musculature. Look at other people's legs - it doesn't look bad.

Kalikel

I have no help, just here to sympathize.

I can't stand my calves. As the weight drops, people are even beginning to comment on how muscular they are. Thighs are muscular, but they're fine and don't get noticed. It's the damned calves!! Sometimes I joke about having the muscle removed...cosmetic gastrocnemectomy.

Some of it was weights. I swim a lot, so when I started doing more weight stuff, my muscles were all ready to get icky muscular and started showing up fast.

If you keep using them, they keep being muscular. There's no way around it.

kokomiiau

i just don't like the muscles because they look so unfeminine :frown:

kokomiiau

My muscles that is... If others like their muscles that's great :happy: but I don't like the way they look on me.

kommodevaran

Deal with it - and maybe work with your view on what is "feminine".

TavistockToad

Deal with it - and maybe work with your view on what is "feminine".

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kittycatz200

I've seen some teenagers who are obsessed with not having their thighs touch. Some magazines are also airbrushing in a gap between the thighs to make models seem skinnier since the gap is supposed to be attractive. It's unnatural in most women and it's gross in my opinion.

vismal

You want to lose MUSCLE? :noway:

Yeah, I read that and shed a tear....

kittycatz200

It's a wikipedia link but it is probably what the girl is after: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thigh_gap

It even mentions that one model.

shapefitter

You do know that wearing high heels, don't help :bigsmile:

LoraF83

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Probably the wrong person to offer advice here. Love my legs. I get compliments on them all the time. And I can rock some high heels. :drinker:


I haven't done much to get these legs. These are my genetics. I lift weights, but I'm in a deficit, so this is all me, reducing the fat over them through exercise.

I get that strong looking legs are not everyone's cup of tea, but I decided a long time ago to try and make peace with the body I have, instead of wishing that I looked like someone else. I'm still aiming to improve my weight, health, and fitness....but I'm not going to obsess over looking like someone I'm not.


Good luck to you OP. I hope you find some solutions for your body image problem.

bkthandler

You really can’t fight Mother Nature. Last year some wingnut congressman from Iowa was warning of “illegal immigrants” with calves like cantaloupe (due to allegedly carrying huge bundles of drugs into the US). I found it very funny because I have huge calves that I got from my Scandinavian Iowa Farm Wife Grandmother.

Actually both of my grandmother’s were born and raised on Iowa farms, survival on the windswept fjords of Norway or the northern plains of the US never favored the weak and I can’t say I am unhappy about it.

You get to play the cards you are dealt, the sooner you work toward being the best (healthiest) version of you the happier you will be.

Relentless_0ne

My muscles that is... If others like their muscles that's great :happy: but I don't like the way they look on me.

Me too. I am so freaking huge, buff and ripped I cant even stand it!! Whenever you get an answer to your problem please let me know as I am so sick and tired of looking this way.

usmcmp

i just don't like the muscles because they look so unfeminine :frown:

If you are a woman then your legs are feminine.

I understand that you may not like your legs and that's just too bad because there's nothing you can do except learn to love them. Saying muscular legs aren't feminine is disrespectful to yourself and all other women. Stop trying to define feminine as some unrealistic standard because it's just going to cause you to hate yourself forever.

This is my friend Lynndsey Miller. She's a bikini competitor and a powerlifting competitor. She's taken first place in both. She lifts very heavy and has "muscular" legs, but I think she looks pretty darn feminine.

Cranquistador

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leaxyzz

I suggest a therapist

firstsip

OP, do you also have weight to lose? Nine times out of ten, the people posting about having "bulky" or "super muscley" legs actually still have fat to lose in those areas--you can have relatively firm or strong legs and also still have body fat to lose. Interestingly, these people also never, ever post pictures of their supposedly bulky legs. Perception is everything, too.

Otherwise, the "straight line" thing... evaluate that. Why do you want a straight line? You pulled the feminine card, but feminine = curvy, which includes the shapeliness of legs... so that doesn't make sense. So why do you want "straight lines"?

I didn't look at your profile, but if you happen to be 21 or under, the answer also lines up with the many posts that pop up on MFP maligning leg shape: you're a woman now and your shape has changed. You develop into your early/mid-20s.

BombshellPhoenix

You'll never convince me, outside of juicing and a tried and true weightlifting routine, that a woman could have unfeminine legs... I'll be taking my unfeminine legs right out of hurr.

JT_Taylor99

In for the ladies with muscular legs