How does one avoid chicken legs?
05-10-05 | 04:37 PM
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Eat beef!!
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05-10-05 | 05:16 PM
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To work the lower part of my legs I do a bunch of calf raises and reverse calf raises.
05-10-05 | 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by forum*rider
To work the lower part of my legs I do a bunch of calf raises and reverse calf raises.
What is a reverse calf raise?
05-10-05 | 06:55 PM
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How does one avoid chicken legs?
Genetics, genetics, genetics.
Genetics, genetics, genetics.
05-10-05 | 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by JenM
I don't want my average frame to look like its balancing on a couple of toothpicks.
This is my view, if your jewish GOOD LUCK!
if your italian, well you know you aint gettin no chicken legs!
(I am both Jewish and Italian, but i got the Italian side, HUGE LEGS! AND WIDE SHOULDERS the wide shoulders aren t the best though, if you dont have the right jersey you in trouble)
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05-10-05 | 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Bolo Grubb
What is a reverse calf raise?
Stand on a lege with the heels on the ledge and the other half od the foot hanging off.
Dip your toes towards the ground.
Raise your toes up again as far as possible.
This works the muscle on the outer part of the leg. I think it's called the anterior tibialis(sp).
05-10-05 | 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by JenM
I don't want my average frame to look like its balancing on a couple of toothpicks.
05-10-05 | 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by skydive69
Then go back and choose your parents and go throug a re-birth! I have been doing heavy squats for probably more years than you have been alive, and still have slim legs - you can't fight genetics.
05-10-05 | 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by suntreader
Here you go.
Will overttraining and too much sun exposure cause that or is it the high grain diet?
05-10-05 | 10:33 PM
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run a higher gear than you would normally, or focus on sprints...your legs will fill out nicely at that point.
My legs are pretty beefy from my work commute, since I'm usually sprinting on my way there (due to me never being able to leave the house at a reasonable time)...I don't do the gearing trick though since I deal with headwinds on my trip...
Basically do something that will make your legs give out way before your lungs, and just keep going.
My legs are pretty beefy from my work commute, since I'm usually sprinting on my way there (due to me never being able to leave the house at a reasonable time)...I don't do the gearing trick though since I deal with headwinds on my trip...
Basically do something that will make your legs give out way before your lungs, and just keep going.
05-10-05 | 10:50 PM
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Stay out of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
On the serious side - - with a little help from a friend, tippy toe on the edge of a bottom stair or street curb. Let your body weight lower your heels past the edge, so that your toes are pointing upward. Then tippy toe again. Repeat. My Sensei had us do that to strengthen our ankles and calves.
On the serious side - - with a little help from a friend, tippy toe on the edge of a bottom stair or street curb. Let your body weight lower your heels past the edge, so that your toes are pointing upward. Then tippy toe again. Repeat. My Sensei had us do that to strengthen our ankles and calves.
05-11-05 | 02:35 AM
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Chicken legs... I wish... I genetically have "huge" legs... now if more of those was muscle...
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05-11-05 | 10:29 AM
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How does one avoid chicken legs?
Just don't ask her out.
Seriously, ride a BMX bike 44X16 and hammer the the whole way. IF you don't get monster quads, then its genetics.
Just don't ask her out.
Seriously, ride a BMX bike 44X16 and hammer the the whole way. IF you don't get monster quads, then its genetics.
