Hello, im new, have thigh questions

[RolliePollie]

I'm a super duper newbie and I'm just wondering when my thighs will get muscular enough so that I look halfway decent in lycra shorts! What my legs do now is indent where the shorts end and then the fat pooches out below the hem of the shorts. This is just DISGUSTING!

When I ride with other people, I'm only wearing my Pearl Izumi Sugar Knickers...they look much better and boy, they sure are comfy. Anyway, I can already see more definition on the outside part of my legs above my knees and in my calves. But the insides of my thighs and even the inside of my knees have so much flab! I am really hoping this will be replaced with muscle. It's ok with me if my thighs don't shrink, but something must be done about the flab! I wear a size 8, so I'm not terribly big, but wow, those bike shorts really do accentuate the fat!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

If you ever do decide to go to a road bike, you'll be that much more of a strong rider. Imagine, if you're going that fast on your cruiser, how fast you might be able to ride on something lighter and designed for speed.

I don't know, you have to be pretty strong to push one of those cruisers around!

Sara- I'm having a hard time finding shorts that don't cut in at the legbands too. They fit everywhere else. I'm not fat. It's the shorts (really!), and I'm still searching for the right size and brand.

[tygab]

I'm a super duper newbie and I'm just wondering when my thighs will get muscular enough so that I look halfway decent in lycra shorts! What my legs do now is indent where the shorts end and then the fat pooches out below the hem of the shorts. This is just DISGUSTING!

When I ride with other people, I'm only wearing my Pearl Izumi Sugar Knickers...they look much better and boy, they sure are comfy. Anyway, I can already see more definition on the outside part of my legs above my knees and in my calves. But the insides of my thighs and even the inside of my knees have so much flab! I am really hoping this will be replaced with muscle. It's ok with me if my thighs don't shrink, but something must be done about the flab! I wear a size 8, so I'm not terribly big, but wow, those bike shorts really do accentuate the fat!

Keep riding! It will come. When I started last spring, I had no muscle definition in my legs, just flab. Skinny flab too (I have a thin build). It did the same thing you were describing and I felt funny in biking shorts. So did my husband. But he has a build where he has tons of muscle just waiting to be revealed, so he picked up his definition quickly and I convinced him to not wear shorts over his cycling shorts to hide his appearance.

For me, building muscle has never been easy. But I knew I was on the right track when I could see thigh muscles beginning to emerge. I got very happy when not too long after, I actually had solid defined calf muscles.

So don't worry, it will come, as long as you make time with the bike!

[Tuckervill]

This thread has moved on, but I can so relate to this:

When walking in the hospital for nearly any complaint, any women of procreating age is believed to be pregnant until proven otherwise!!! And sometimes even after being proven otherwise!! I once had horrible lower abdomen pain (which turned out to be ovarian cysts) and I had to take 3 pregnancy tests in 24 hours.

It was a smart thing to do, mind you. But it became old by the third one...

I had a cyst last summer, obviously brought on by stress, because it burst just as I was finishing up directing a state baseball tournament that I had worked night and day on for weeks. I mean, it happened during the last pitch and while the trophies were being handed out!

So, hubby carried me to the ER, and is sitting in the room with me. Xrays are ordered, blood is drawn, I see various nurses, docs, technicians, still trying to determine if I have a "surgical belly". Then, as the xray tech is coming to take me away, a young gal who had just been sitting at the desk outside my room, and eating pizza, rushes past him, hand over her mouth so as not to be *rude* by talking with her mouth full. Breathlessly she says, "Is there any chance you could be PREGNANT!?"

Uh, no. I'm not pregnant, I say through my teeth gritted from the pain.

"Are you sure!?"

No, I'm not pregnant. He had a vasectomy 13 years ago, I manage to whisper.

"But are YOU fertile?"

Honest person that I am, and not quite able to express my exasperation at this questioning, I blurt out, "We haven't slept together in several weeks!" (Hey, we're in our 40s and we have a young teenager who stays up late in the adjacent room every night.)

....it gets worse.

She RUSHES out of the room to the gathered medical people who were not involved and the local firefighter/emt/er nurse who also coaches in my baseball league, and announces to one and all that "THEY HAVEN'T SLEPT TOGETHER IN SEVERAL WEEKS!"

I cannot begin to say how inappropriate her behavior was. She wasn't involved in my care. She appeared to think she was the only person in the entire ER including the nurse, xray tech and MD, who would have thought to ask the question. Then she violated my privacy and caused me embarrassment and loss of dignity by blurting out my personal business for literally everyone to hear.

grrr...does not even begin to cover it. I've thought of writing a letter to her boss. Surely she's dug her own grave by now, though.

Karen

[Luna]

I don't know, you have to be pretty strong to push one of those cruisers around!

Well the townie is not real heavy to me anyway. I was riding a cheap mountain bike at first that was probably around 35 pounds or more...UGH!! Look out head wind. My business has been so busy I have not rode since last tues!!!!!!!

[Grog]

grrr...does not even begin to cover it. I've thought of writing a letter to her boss. Surely she's dug her own grave by now, though.

I totally feel your pain. How inappropriate!!!

[mountainchick]

I'm 5'2" and if I was 118lbs I would be ECSTATIC! I'm around 140. I think the other ladies gave good advice, but don't get too hung up on body issues.

Good luck!