so ive been losing weigbt lately, and one of my main targets are my thighs and calves, my thighs have slimmed down and some other parts of my body, but my calves!? they havent slimmed down, not even a little bit???? im so aggravated because im sick of not being able to wear some boots due to my large calves...it makes me really upset, because i want to shrink down my calves. please help me..
and if your going to answer "its genetics" dont even bother to answer cause both my parents have small calves and so does my sister, so seriously dont.
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You have to maybe wait until you''ve lost more of your weight to see the difference on your calves and thighs. Maybe you store more fat there than other parts of your body.
Also you could be doing exercises that bulk up your calves which you should then avoid.
Keep your diet on track so that you get to you goal weight and start doing workouts that create long, lean, toned bodies and not bulky or masculine muscular ones.
Try ballet/barre inspired, yoga, pilates or fusions of them. Those create great bodies especially for legs! Look into:
Lotte Berk or Bar Method
Pure Barre
Ballet Body Signature Series from leah sarago
Rockin Models
Pop Physique
Physique 57
Cardio Barre
Ballet Beautiful
Tracy Anderson Method
Ballerobica
Barre3
Booty Barre
Exhale Core Fusion
Winsor Pilates
AeroBarre
anything from Ellen Barrett or Kristen Mcgee
Xtend Barre
These are all great. Also try Tonique workouts.
- Your probably gaining muscle.
- What exercises do you perform? Try swimming an cycling as they target the leg area. And don''t get upset but it may actually be your genes, you may be bigger bones and your muscle mass may be different compared to your family. Also try hiking and walking more frequently
- Omgosh I have the same problem too, but apparently mine is genetics. I seriously want to wear boots.
One of the trainers I talk to said that there is fat around the calves area and we need to work it out by doing calf raises, but i feel like that is going to make mine bigger. You should try it out.
Also, if you have been running and doing any sports at a young age that is also a reason why you have big calves.
Eventually, if you keep on working out, your calf will decrease.
How did you lose weight around your thighs ?? I have been doing squats and lunges with weights and elliptical for 40 mins for 2 weeks now. No improvement at all. :( But I lost 20pounds prior to that.. - My calves took a while to slim down when I lost weight. I wanted a pair of knee high boots and I bought a pair I could just squeeze into without any socks or pants and over the course of two months of running I slimmed down enough to get into them comfortably.
Try doing some different exercises to tighten up all of the muscles down there and continue to reduce your body fat percentage with diet and hopefully your legs will slim down. - Ok if you dont wanna listen to people telling you the truth, then ask a nutritionist or another expert, why are you instructing people to be stupid for you? Your calves are a muscle, nearly pure muscle, how do you lose muscle? you stop training that area, but there isnt anybody thats not training their calves, when you walk you use them all the time, you know? Any fat that you take in doesnt go to your calves, it goes largely into your belly, hips, and thighs, the only way calves would have fat in them is in a severely obese person and even thats rare. Keep working on your legs and thighs, maybe when that starts getting slimmer your calves will naturally ''appear'' smaller. And we are also not exact copies of our parents, we also carry our own set of unique variations and mutations that our parents did not have. I have real big calves, the kind you see in sprinters, my dad has baby calves, my mom has an athletic body type so her calves are as average for a fit woman as it gets, so how do I have the calves of a sprinter then?
- I know how you feel! i have massive calf muscles but no one else does in my family! Im a dancer so this probably builds up my muscles a lot. I actually asked the doctor about it and he just said its the way im built and theres not much i can do about it. :( The only way to get rid of muscle like that is to not eat much and sit around without moving for a long amount of time so you lose muscle. But then you wont be able to run and jump etc since all your muscle is gone. I have recently lost 4kg and am at my healthy weight, and my calf muscles stayed the same, i suppose its somthing we will have to learn to love :)
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