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Thread: Flabby Legs

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  1. #1
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    Don't get discouraged! Keep riding consistently and, if it's possible, add in some strength training. If you're not sure how, a good place to start is the weight machines at your local health club. Almost all clubs will give you a free orientation where they'll show you how to use all of them and give you some basic recommendations. If you go through the whole circuit a couple of times a week and continue to challenge yourself by adding some weight as you get stronger, you'll see changes in the firmness of the muscles underneath the saggy parts you hate!
    Because not every fast cyclist is a toothpick...

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    Well, everyone else had a lot of really great input and advice.

    I would also add, that it might help you some... to ride more.

    From what you are saying... you ride about 4 hours a week... or 16 hours a month. That's a great start, but you won't see your body change drastically with so little time on the bike.

    It took me riding 400+ miles a month... or... around 26-30 hours a month on the bike to see improvement.

    Still so, even with running up to 80 miles a month, with the riding... I still have cellulite on my legs. On the back and front. It looks better toned and tanned, but it's not gone. Such is life. It's there. If they don't like it, they don't have to look.

    Of course, I have gotten compliments on how muscular my legs are these days!

    Like I said though, you gotta ride longer than 1-hour sessions to start seeing some improvement. Good luck!
    "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather, to skid in broadside thoroughly used-up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: WOW WHAT A RIDE!!!!"

 

 

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