Disproportionate Muscles?

daviesee

Rick Chasey wrote:

Headhuunter wrote:

I would have thought spinning wouldn't particularly help in building muscle mass though, but rather build definition. It's the equivalent of doing heavy weights/short number of reps at the gym to build mass and size vs lighter weights/high reps to define...

Pretty sure Armstrong had the biggest thighs and calves I've seen in the peloton in a long while and he hardly mashed....

I've seen that photo before. Those veins just don't look natural :shock:

(Please don't start another Lance doping rant - I am just commenting on the physicality).

rick_chasey

Ya - old pros get veiny legs.

Take a look at Sean Yate's legs when he was a pro and afterwards.

The lack of fat also doesn't help..

rjsterry

daviesee wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Headhuunter wrote:

I would have thought spinning wouldn't particularly help in building muscle mass though, but rather build definition. It's the equivalent of doing heavy weights/short number of reps at the gym to build mass and size vs lighter weights/high reps to define...

Pretty sure Armstrong had the biggest thighs and calves I've seen in the peloton in a long while and he hardly mashed....

I've seen that photo before. Those veins just don't look natural :shock:

(Please don't start another Lance doping rant - I am just commenting on the physicality).

+1 I've got a couple that stick out a bit (more like varicose veins than pro cyclist) but that's like something from one of DDD's comics.

greg66_tri_v2.0

I just checked my right bicep, and it is MASSIVE.

Fortunately, so is my left one!

Roll up for the gun show laydeez. Step this way ... No, that's not chloroform. And that isn't a sack, either.

Headhuunter

Rick Chasey wrote:

Headhuunter wrote:

I would have thought spinning wouldn't particularly help in building muscle mass though, but rather build definition. It's the equivalent of doing heavy weights/short number of reps at the gym to build mass and size vs lighter weights/high reps to define...

Pretty sure Armstrong had the biggest thighs and calves I've seen in the peloton in a long while and he hardly mashed....

Yeah but in the grand scheme of things, his calf muscles are hardly enormous (if you can look past the grotesque veins for a moment!) There are guys at my gym with calves that look twice the thickness of my neck!

daviesee

Headhuunter wrote:

Yeah but in the grand scheme of things, his calf muscles are hardly enormous (if you can look past the grotesque veins for a moment!) There are guys at my gym with calves that look twice the thickness of my neck!

Agreed. My calves are about that size. It's just using them properly that I fail at :oops:

richVSrich

if you have one side bigger than the others, just take one pedal off and just use your one leg to build up to the same size as the bigger one! same in no time! :P

Anonymous

I love this pic of Ullrich, king of the mashers...

EKE_38BPM

Not often that Nap D posts in here. First I can remember. I think this thread is blessed.

itboffin

NapoleonD wrote:

I love this pic of Ullrich, king of the mashers...

Holy crap i've never seen that one before :shock:

a body builder would be proud of that definition

PBo

Asprilla wrote:

Mashing is a much 'squarer' pedalling motion that sminning and so concentrates on the quads while spinning, being more circular, is more of a full leg motion.

sorry mate, but you are going to have to explain that one.......you must have some pretty sophisticated drive train on your bike if you can pedal squares..... :?

EKE_38BPM

PBo wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

Mashing is a much 'squarer' pedalling motion that sminning and so concentrates on the quads while spinning, being more circular, is more of a full leg motion.

sorry mate, but you are going to have to explain that one.......you must have some pretty sophisticated drive train on your bike if you can pedal squares..... :?

Here you go.