Walking and bulky thighs
dandanacutie
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I've done a lot of researches but I didn't find the answer I want.
I love walking I walk on 4 mph for 4 hours daily and I count my calories to meet my weight loss goals ...
Am I gonna have bulky thighs? I'm a classic pear shaped and I want to slim down my thighs
I love walking I walk on 4 mph for 4 hours daily and I count my calories to meet my weight loss goals ...
Am I gonna have bulky thighs? I'm a classic pear shaped and I want to slim down my thighs
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Nope, not from walking.9
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Agreed ... not from walking.
If you wanted to build muscle in your quads, you're going to have to do more than that!
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No! I don't want bulky thighs I was just asking to make sure I won't get any with this much of walking.
Thank you all1 -
Lol no.5
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hehehe no lady. Walk away.4
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Short answer: No.
Long answer. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. To get "bulky thighs" requires a lot of leg work such as squats, deadlifts, and/or barbell lunges.
if it were that easy to build muscular legs I would have them.17 -
If you're progressively increasing the incline on the walk while keeping the same pace you will likely add some mass to your legs. If you are already thicker in the legs and want to avoid adding size, I would keep it at a low/no incline walk.29
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No, but i would have realistic expectations about your thighs. As someone who is also a pear it takes getting down to relatively low body fat levels for them to slim down significantly and even still i always look pear shaped.
I could show you a progression of my legs in images if you want, but I will tell you that the look you're going for required me to get down to about 108 pounds at 5'4 and it took several years of building muscle to have "bulky thighs" at lower (20's) body fat.
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If you're walking 16 miles a day at a 4 mph pace, you're going to build some muscle.
NOT as much as you would with a strength program, but it will be there.2 -
No.0
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I've started lifting and doing more leg presses and squats along with my diet. As I've been losing fat my legs have been getting smaller. So that's something to think about. If you get some muscle in your legs it doesnt necessarily mean your legs will get bigger, they may even slim down a little. But this is only personal observation, not fact.3
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RAD_Fitness wrote: »If you're progressively increasing the incline on the walk while keeping the same pace you will likely add some mass to your legs. If you are already thicker in the legs and want to avoid adding size, I would keep it at a low/no incline walk.stanmann571 wrote: »If you're walking 16 miles a day at a 4 mph pace, you're going to build some muscle.
NOT as much as you would with a strength program, but it will be there.
Oh, certainly. One only needs to look at elite marathon runners, who run far more miles and more time, to see what kind of huge, massive, bulky thighs one will build through endurance exercise:
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Do we need a new thread? OMG walking made me supah bulky!!!!
I jest but no, OP, you are not going to add any mass of any significance by walking. Or running. Or hiking. Especially so as a female.9 -
Not from walking.dandanacutie wrote: »Am I gonna have bulky thighs?
Calorie deficit will result in fat loss - some of that will most likely be coming from your thighs.dandanacutie wrote: »I'm a classic pear shaped and I want to slim down my thighs
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I did get get a small amount of muscle increase in my calves after moving to the mountains. I would hardly say they bulked up and they haven't grown any more muscular since the first few weeks of moving up here. In fact they have become slimmer from losing weight and walking just as much on those same hills.0
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RAD_Fitness wrote: »If you're progressively increasing the incline on the walk while keeping the same pace you will likely add some mass to your legs. If you are already thicker in the legs and want to avoid adding size, I would keep it at a low/no incline walk.
really? walking adds mass? So you're saying if i walk fast and on an incline i'll gain mass on my legs?4 -
That guy is a personal trainer, right?8
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Definitely not! And even at an incline you will not get bulky legs, I walked that much every day for years, at an incline for half of it and never ever had bulky legs (the opposite in fact, very slim).1
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RAD_Fitness wrote: »If you're progressively increasing the incline on the walk while keeping the same pace you will likely add some mass to your legs. If you are already thicker in the legs and want to avoid adding size, I would keep it at a low/no incline walk.
really? walking adds mass? So you're saying if i walk fast and on an incline i'll gain mass on my legs?
Progressively increasing the incline, yes.10 -
RAD_Fitness wrote: »RAD_Fitness wrote: »If you're progressively increasing the incline on the walk while keeping the same pace you will likely add some mass to your legs. If you are already thicker in the legs and want to avoid adding size, I would keep it at a low/no incline walk.
really? walking adds mass? So you're saying if i walk fast and on an incline i'll gain mass on my legs?
Progressively increasing the incline, yes.
what happens when i get to like a 90 degree incline and can't progress anymore?
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My legs are bulky/muscly af big quads and calves I asked my trainer how I can slim them down and he said that my legs will not get any bigger and I as i continue to lose body fat they will begin to slim.0
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From my personal experience (I hate running but loooovvveee walking), when I walked a ton when I lived in Europe, my calves lost a ton of bulk (I used to have literally square calves) and ever since I started walking on a 0.5-1.5 incline on the treadmill in the past month, my thighs have slimmed down a bit too! However, when I went hiking the Annapurna Circuit, I gained some calf and thigh mass back ):
So imo, as long as the incline is slight, you won't gain any mass (:0 -
I definitely gain muscle on my thighs from incline walking, but it's hardly bulky, it's more like long, streamlined muscle that built up and replaced the fat that I lost from walking and eating right. So if you walk enough, yes you'll gain muscle in your thighs, but it won't make you bulky or add inches.3
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Women tend to lose weight on thighs and hips last... apparently to help with child bearing.
Its a hard life sister!0 -
I definitely gain muscle on my thighs from incline walking, but it's hardly bulky, it's more like long, streamlined muscle that built up and replaced the fat that I lost from walking and eating right. So if you walk enough, yes you'll gain muscle in your thighs, but it won't make you bulky or add inches.
Sounds like you lost fat (woohoo!) and got more definition in your legs because of it... But unlikely any muscle growth. Muscle doesn't "replace" fat, they are completely different things.4 -
Op, I don't want to sound rude, but how do you have 4 hours a day to just walk on a treadmill? Isn't there something else you need to use the time for?5
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What's with all these accidental bulky stories? :huh:
Bulky itself is a very derogatory term in the first place. :noway:4 -
Wait, so OP is eating less calories and losing weight, so that means their mass is dropping. That also means that their resistance (because of weight loss) is also being decreased. The amount of mass you're speaking of here is not even noticeable if ANY at all. Your knowledge is very limited when it comes to actual advice outside of the bro gym. Stick to that with gym bros since they believe in a lot of anecdotal and bro advice.RAD_Fitness wrote: »RAD_Fitness wrote: »If you're progressively increasing the incline on the walk while keeping the same pace you will likely add some mass to your legs. If you are already thicker in the legs and want to avoid adding size, I would keep it at a low/no incline walk.
really? walking adds mass? So you're saying if i walk fast and on an incline i'll gain mass on my legs?
Progressively increasing the incline, yes.
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Wait, so OP is eating less calories and losing weight, so that means their mass is dropping. That also means that their resistance (because of weight loss) is also being decreased. The amount of mass you're speaking of here is not even noticeable if ANY at all. Your knowledge is very limited when it comes to actual advice outside of the bro gym. Stick to that with gym bros since they believe in a lot of anecdotal and bro advice.RAD_Fitness wrote: »RAD_Fitness wrote: »If you're progressively increasing the incline on the walk while keeping the same pace you will likely add some mass to your legs. If you are already thicker in the legs and want to avoid adding size, I would keep it at a low/no incline walk.
really? walking adds mass? So you're saying if i walk fast and on an incline i'll gain mass on my legs?
Progressively increasing the incline, yes.
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The woo is strong with that one! Too bad the physiology isn't... 4
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