What to do if your calves become thicker after running

As we all know, losing weight is the dream of fat people. Many fat people will choose to lose weight to correct their deformed body. Many people will choose to exercise to lose weight. The most popular exercise is running. After all, running does not require too much preparation and consumption. As long as you have time, you can start running at any time. However, some people will find that running makes their legs thicker. What should they do?

First of all, you should keep your head and shoulders stable when running, face forward, eyes looking forward, and shoulders relaxed. Keep your body upright from the neck to the abdomen, keep your waist naturally upright, slightly tense your abdominal muscles, and do not shake your torso from side to side. Secondly, when running, your arms should swing back and forth with your shoulders as the axis, and the left and right movements should not exceed the midline of your body. Make fists slightly with your hands or put your five fingers together to make palms. When running, actively push your hips forward as your thighs swing forward, and swing your thighs and knees forward and upward with force, rather than just lifting them up. When running, your feet should land about one foot in front of your body, close to the midline. The calf should not be crossed too far to avoid strain on the Achilles tendon due to excessive force. At the same time, pay attention to the cushioning of the calf muscles and Achilles tendon when landing. When landing, the calf should actively dig into the ground backwards to make the body move forward actively. Finally, the calf should swing forward in the right direction, and the foot should face forward as much as possible, not turned outward or backward, otherwise the knee and ankle joints may be easily injured. When running, land on the middle of your foot and quickly distribute the impact force to the entire sole of your foot.

Sometimes, even though they adopt the correct running posture mentioned above, some friends still feel that their calves have become thicker because they feel their calves are swollen after running. In fact, this is an illusion caused by fatigue of the calf muscles and lack of exercise. Don't worry about this, just do a simple calf muscle stretch and you will get relief.

The wrong running posture that causes thicker calves is to use the calves to run instead of using the thighs to drive the calves to run. For example, everyone knows the running posture of the ostrich, which is to lift the thigh forward and upward, using the thigh to drive the calf. The so-called calf running is to use the calf muscle strength to drive the whole body to run forward without the coordination of other parts of the body. This situation often occurs when the body has no physical strength or does not know the correct running posture. So at this time our calves bear the weight of the entire body. During the entire exercise process, the calf muscles are equivalent to doing anaerobic exercise. Anaerobic exercise promotes the development of our muscles and increases the cross-sectional area of ​​muscles to resist the body's own weight to achieve self-protection function. When the muscles increase, the circumference of the calf also increases, and the calf becomes thicker.

To sum up, it is recommended that you pay more attention to your posture when running. The correct posture will not make your calves thicker. In addition, friends whose calves have already become thicker should remember that if your calves are sore after exercise, you should drink more water and go to the toilet more often to excrete lactic acid. This can prevent the calf muscles from growing and the calves will not be particularly thick.