CYCLING & chunky legs..

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  • WanderingLass
    WanderingLass Posts: 86 Member
    My boyfriend commutes on a bicycle - he hasn't driven in over 25 years other than when I'm too tired to. He has muscular legs with very well-defined calves (that look delicious when he wears a kilt!!) but not bulky as if he was a power-lifter.

    However, his manager also rides bicycle a lot and he does look like a power lifter.

    So...pun intended, your mileage may vary. :smile:
  • __RANDY__
    __RANDY__ Posts: 1,036 Member
    all of you come to grips with reality, you have big fat calves. (sorry for being blunt) exercise and a caloric deficit is the only way, bulking is IMPOSSIBLE with out a caloric surplus FACT!!
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    all of you come to grips with reality, you have big fat calves. (sorry for being blunt) exercise and a caloric deficit is the only way, bulking is IMPOSSIBLE with out a caloric surplus FACT!!

    Randy is right.
  • jehavin
    jehavin Posts: 316 Member
    all of you come to grips with reality, you have big fat calves. (sorry for being blunt) exercise and a caloric deficit is the only way, bulking is IMPOSSIBLE with out a caloric surplus FACT!!



    LOL! What a guy thing to say---true or not ;) I guess you can kiss my big, fat calves (and any other big fat part of me that "bulked" unnecessarily).

    I don't think any of us were saying that we grew "super calf muscles" that defy science. However, it is indisputable that genetics play into how fat accumulates on the body and, obviously if a person (especially a woman's) body tends to hold fat on the legs, developing or making gains with the muscle underneath fat will add extra "bulk" (even if it isn't the technical kind,). Like a previous poster stated, even with excess fat on the legs, (or calves,) if you are working/training muscles that previously were underused, then it will look better/more toned than before. I think that's what the previously posting ladies are striving for since obviously our legs are the part we have to work on the most.

    Otherwise, why would many of us (who are eating at a deficit,) lose inches everywhere (even hips/thighs) except for our calves, some even gaining a half inch or so despite cycling and lifting? Is the fat sliding down to pool at our big, fat calves?

    But still, your comment made me laugh, shake my head and be glad that I am (and have been) out of the dating pool.
  • GiddyupTim
    GiddyupTim Posts: 2,819 Member
    Pardon my candor, but . . . you are a nut-case!
    Just teasing, but . . . I live in Sacramento. Until this past year, we used to get the Tour of California through here. I looked at many, many of those PROFESSIONAL cyclists, and they do not have big legs.
    These are guys -- first of all -- and, they are guys who have been riding long distances, hard, for many, many years, starting when they were young and at the peak of their testosterone levels. And they did not get huge legs.
    As a matter of fact, they look pretty skinny.
    Yes, there are track cyclists -- sprinters -- who have huge legs. But, they sprint and they lift weights. They specifically train to build muscle.
    But, the road cyclists? They ride too far and burn too many calories to build appreciable muscle.
    If you have big legs now, you will have big legs.
    If you have thin legs, you will have thin legs.
    But, I'll bet you, either way, that if you ride those legs will get more toned and toned legs generally look better!

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