Skinny legs vs Large legs (MUSCLE) - Page 3

At that point eating becomes a real chore especially when you are trying to get those kind of calories from good foods (not quite as hard to do with fast food). As soon as you finish one meal you are just about to start the next.

Way back in college other than going to class and lifting weights I would lay in bed to conserve calories in order to gain size. I definately fit in the "hard gainer" category.

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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

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

So true

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Thanks! The training, well - lard loss, is going good. Down 21lbs so far this year and just under where I was at last year and I'm stronger too, so I can't complain. As for the Camaro, if I can't generate enough of my own torque on the bike, at least the old SS has 568lb/ft on tap... Where's the "love" emoticon when you need it!

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!

When I get rid of my "tub o' lard" around my waiste I'll be back to looking like stickman again. Sprinter I aint - the only time I used to be able to put in a good dig and make people suffer was when the gradient was above 8%.

Right now I'm the fatman, that's what I am... No sprinting for me.

Well, last year when I hopped on the bike, I lost inches off just about everywhere (waist, chest, neck) but didn't lose weight, so I was building muscle someplace.