Will running make your legs thicker?

Running is a very good fitness exercise. If you have the perseverance to stick to it, running can also effectively help you lose weight. Reasonable and healthy fitness is important for the body, but some friends think that running will make the leg muscles more developed and make the legs look thicker. Is this true? Is it true? Will running make the legs thicker? Let us find out quickly.

Many friends believe that running can develop leg muscles and make legs thicker. In fact, this understanding is biased.

Many people are very sensitive to changes in their body shape, especially girls who love beauty. After running, their legs usually feel swollen, as if they have become thicker. They also believe that running requires the use of leg strength, which will make the leg muscles harder, and as the muscles grow more, the legs will become thicker. In fact, this is largely an illusion. Although we think that big and thick legs are caused by excess muscles, in fact, the reason for thick legs in daily life is not the increase of muscles, but the increase of fat.

We will find that 90% of marathon runners have very slender calves, which shows that running is not the culprit for thick legs. If you don't exercise or run, fat will accumulate in your legs, and then your legs will become big and thick. So thicker legs are not necessarily caused by running.

We also found that many sprinters have thick legs and well-developed muscles. We are not saying that running will not make your legs thicker, but the amount of exercise and training intensity of those sprinters are not within the reach of ordinary people. Moreover, what they do is high-intensity anaerobic exercise, which will increase muscle and leg circumference. Most ordinary people's running is a long-term aerobic exercise, which provides power by burning body fat. No matter how much they run, they only burn fat, and it is difficult to achieve the effect of developing leg muscles. Therefore, most people who only exercise mainly by jogging are unlikely to have thicker legs due to running too much.

In short, no matter what, you should still be active in exercising. It is just an illusion among friends that running will make your legs thicker. So as long as you make adequate preparations before running, and then do some relaxing exercises in time after running, the leg muscles will be able to relax well and the bloated feeling will disappear.