lose thigh and calf muscle

kokomiiau
kokomiiau Posts: 5
in Health and Weight Loss
okay, so my thighs and calves are really muscley :cry: and I would like to know what i could do to burn the leg muscle and get nice straight legs? :smile: I've been running and i used to Jump rope but then my thighs and calves have gotten huge any exercises to reduce them?
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  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    okay, so my thighs and calves are really muscley :cry: and I would like to know what i could do to burn the leg muscle and get nice straight legs? :smile: 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
    kokomiiau Posts: 5
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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    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
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    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
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    Define "huge".

    I'm guessing your profile picture is some kind of goal?
  • kokomiiau
    kokomiiau Posts: 5
    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
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    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".

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  • release_the_kraken
    release_the_kraken Posts: 304 Member
    The odd things chicks post....
  • kwantlen2051
    kwantlen2051 Posts: 455 Member
    Wish we can just swap legs. I would love to have more muscles in my legs!!!
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    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.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    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.

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  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    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
    kokomiiau Posts: 5
    i just don't like the muscles because they look so unfeminine :frown:
  • kokomiiau
    kokomiiau Posts: 5
    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
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Deal with it - and maybe work with your view on what is "feminine".
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Deal with it - and maybe work with your view on what is "feminine".

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  • kittycatz200
    kittycatz200 Posts: 8
    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
    vismal Posts: 2,463 Member
    You want to lose MUSCLE? :noway:
    Yeah, I read that and shed a tear....
  • kittycatz200
    kittycatz200 Posts: 8
    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
    shapefitter Posts: 900 Member
    You do know that wearing high heels, don't help :bigsmile:
  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
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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
    bkthandler Posts: 247 Member
    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
    Relentless_0ne Posts: 38
    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
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    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.
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  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    NO



    (to the OP)
  • leaxyzz
    leaxyzz Posts: 1
    I suggest a therapist
  • firstsip
    firstsip Posts: 8,399 Member
    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
    BombshellPhoenix Posts: 1,693 Member
    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
    JT_Taylor99 Posts: 148
    In for the ladies with muscular legs :smile:

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