i have HUGE calves?

nancy274 wrote: »

I leave the top parts unclipped and just find boots that fit my feet tight enough so that they stay in. This makes leaning forward into your boot more difficult but I find it works okay for me just doing recreational skiing on medium slopes.

Yeah, no longer an option for me, sadly. Let's just say I've probably put my bootfitter's kids through college by now and leave it at that.

nancy274 wrote: »

A friend who is a bodybuilder type has trained for years still has calves that look incredibly small for his frame. No amount of lifting helps him build bigger calves. His calves support his almost 200lb frame fine even when he does powerlifting competitions so I do not buy that big calf muscles are a result of having to support more body weight while you are overweight.

I agree with this. I was always thin and always had big calves. The weight gain came later in my life.

Even when I lost weight my calf size remained large. I have inherited my mum's fat legs. They are shapeless as and I also have cankles. So I wear jeans a lot and feel really self conscious about them especially in the summer months. I can't wear scrappy shoes as it just draws attention to them. Amazingly I can cram them into knee high boots but they make my legs look even larger

I'm 5'4 and currently 154lbs but ever since puberty even when I weighed like 120lbs my calves were huge in proportion to the rest of my body. My mum's are the same. So I think naturally muscly calves may possibly be a genetic thing since neither of us has ever done much physical exercise besides walking.