Skinny legs vs Large legs (MUSCLE)

Originally Posted by jsirabella

I honestly still have my doubts about people claiming they are gaining muscle through cardio...all my experience and articles I have read say it should not be. I can understand that you may look like you gained more muscle because your muscles seem to pop more now you can see all those muscles that were once hiding but gained muscle...I doubt it.

I still say change up your diet or your training and see how your body responds.

I was in cab a few minutes ago and they were talking about Mark Lepster (sp??) who is swimming for USA in the olympics and how his coaches tell him to take in 10,000 calories a day and he is eating all the time...they were saying 5 times the normal amount for average people...I wonder how much training this guy does?

-js

Originally Posted by jsirabella

I honestly still have my doubts about people claiming they are gaining muscle through cardio...all my experience and articles I have read say it should not be. I can understand that you may look like you gained more muscle because your muscles seem to pop more now you can see all those muscles that were once hiding but gained muscle...I doubt it.

I still say change up your diet or your training and see how your body responds.

I was in cab a few minutes ago and they were talking about Mark Lepster (sp??) who is swimming for USA in the olympics and how his coaches tell him to take in 10,000 calories a day and he is eating all the time...they were saying 5 times the normal amount for average people...I wonder how much training this guy does?

-js

Originally Posted by swampy1970

Unless all my cycling shorts, and jeans simultaneously shrank at the same time, depsite never having done so before, I know that my thighs have put on a little more in the muscle department.

Lets just say that the piece of equipment I put on my bike forces you to use extra muscles, ones that you don't normally use.... and let's just leave it at that. We have one sh*tstorm of a thread going on right now elsewhere on this forum and that doesn't need to happen here. LOL

Originally Posted by jsirabella

Yes I saw the storm you were talking about a while ago...took me over an hour to go through the thread quickly and wish I had used that time on the bike instead of wasting my time reading it....at where I am with my training way too much information, I just need to build the engine first.

-js

Originally Posted by jsirabella

Yes I saw the storm you were talking about a while ago...took me over an hour to go through the thread quickly and wish I had used that time on the bike instead of wasting my time reading it....at where I am with my training way too much information, I just need to build the engine first.

I have never won any state or national races, have not been racing for 10-20 years, never played school sports and one of the reasons I like the bike is that it reminds me of my only physical job which was being a bike messenger in college. Well I guess movie making is physical but not really. I need something simple and easy for me to follow...I think Tyson's post in the thread said it best for me.

BTW, enjoy your PCs and hope they give you the success you are after and if not the Camaro should.

-js

-js

Originally Posted by swampy1970

Unless all my cycling shorts, and jeans simultaneously shrank at the same time, depsite never having done so before, I know that my thighs have put on a little more in the muscle department.

Originally Posted by DennistheMennis

I would have to second this; my thighs are bigger than they used to be too, and I do no weight training (for my legs anyway, though once a week I do some bench jumps). However, I do lots of "L7" jumps (sprints) on my bike, for 10 seconds max, using a fairly tall gear on a slight uphill. I do 10 jumps on a ride, twice a week. I didn't do these until last year. Before that I mostly just "rode lots," with some sporadic longer intervals.

I understand that endurance riding, at L4 and under, won't bulk you up, especially if your muscles are more slow-twitch. But if you intersperse lots of L7 and are a fast-twitch muscle guy as I am, then you might well see some added bulk. OTOH, I wonder if the more dense capillaries obtained from L4 training could add any bulk. I'm pretty sure the experts here will tell you this "hypertrophy" is not the result of endurance training though.

So, are you a sprinter? Maybe your muscles are telling you that!