Skinnier Legs!!

Apple Orange

Can anyone offer advice on any exercises that might help to shed inches from legs?!!

I don't want to do things that will end up bulking up my legs, and I'd prefer if they were thinner than they are now :mad:

fifth

Been lifting weights regularly now for over 2 years and my legs haven't ballooned or anything..

It's like that old 'argument' that people have against running, it'll make your legs look fatter..

RIDICULOUS

Khannie

Running. I've never seen a distance runner with chunky legs (or chunky anything for that matter).

Macha

I'm female, weight train 4 times a week and I have large muscular thighs (shock). I have heard that unilateral exercises are better (ie lunges, tri-lunges, single leg squat, etc) and maybe try high intensity, low rep.

Don't forget that you need muscle to burn the fat.

Apple Orange

NBB Bohs wrote: »

I love how people think as soon as you start doing any sort of weights, magically you'll resemble Ronnie Coleman. :pac:

What is your BF % now? If its high then you will want to do intensive cardio to lose Bodyfat which in turn will eventually come off your legs.

I think my % is 23 - is that high? I don't know if thats too high? I know its not low anyway!!

Thanks for the advice all!! I might try running and see how that goes for a while!

j@utis

I'm about 20.5% BF and not happy with my legs too. and I know what's wrong with them: they're just fat! fat on upper inner thigh makes them look massive. and it's all back to diet and I'm sitting at pc sipping beer now

RacoonQueen

There's biological reasons for women having fat on their upper inner thigh...

Just out of interest, what is measurement of your thighs? a lot of people think their thighs are big when they're actually not.

j@utis

59cm or about 23inches at the thickest point. it went up 3cm in last two months because I put few kg on (blame holidays). I imagine to make them smaller I should be doing high reps light weight exersices but not much I can do with dodgy knee (blame deadlifts).
and an illustration to back me up:

j@utis

oh and sorry for stealing someone else's topic, ooops (blame beer).

Khannie

If they're your legs I think you should be very happy with yourself tbh.

Parsley

Khannie wrote: »

If they're your legs I think you should be very happy with yourself tbh.

Agreed!

rubadub

j@utis wrote: »

and an illustration to back me up

Thats not backing you up very well! photo is called bigarssse.jpg, big arse my arse!

MagicMarker

j@utis wrote: »

59cm or about 23inches at the thickest point. it went up 3cm in last two months because I put few kg on (blame holidays). I imagine to make them smaller I should be doing high reps light weight exersices but not much I can do with dodgy knee (blame deadlifts).
and an illustration to back me up:

Do you honestly believe your legs and arse are too big?

It's amazing (and really sad) just how warped a person's perception of themself can be.

TerrorFirmer

You don't even have an arse. Just legs that extend to your back.

Remmy

good job.I'd add in some barbell good mornings.

j@utis

Khannie wrote: »

If they're your legs I think you should be very happy with yourself tbh.

wrong pic, oops, this is better, I mean worse:

squod

Yeah, you look fine.
Keep up the good work.

Khannie

j@utis wrote: »

wrong pic, oops, this is better, I mean worse:

Still looks good to me. People can be very harsh on themselves.

RacoonQueen

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

You don't even have an arse. Just legs that extend to your back.

I have an arse like that. Damn genetics.

I think you're legs look fine j@utis...23 inches is about average for women, very few women get much smaller than that...while still having good muscle bulk. I'm a long distance runner and have very little fat on my thigh and I'm 22 inches at last measurement about a month and a half ago.

j@utis

yeah, goddamn genetics. but i would love to have some gap between my upper thighs, it's sooo sexyyyy...

squod

j@utis wrote: »

yeah, goddamn genetics. but i would love to have some gap between my upper thighs, it's sooo sexyyyy...

Men have a name for just that thing. Sure I'll get banned for saying it,
the good news is you can live without it.

MagicMarker

squod wrote: »

Men have a name for just that thing.

We do?

cardio,shoot me

J@utis, i still see no problem , you look awesome!