Strop teen daughter
slowmart
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Can the wise and collective knowledge appropriately offer their informed opinion to my daughter please?
The simple questions are.
Will cycling make her legs like rugby players large, strong and bulging?
Will cycling a couple of times a week will maintain a base level of fitness, albeit 12 to 20 miles a week with no adverse outcomes with muscle mass?
Thats it, I'm out of patience in trying to explain non of the above are possible and I'm hopeful some independent advice will carry more weight!
TIA
The simple questions are.
Will cycling make her legs like rugby players large, strong and bulging?
Will cycling a couple of times a week will maintain a base level of fitness, albeit 12 to 20 miles a week with no adverse outcomes with muscle mass?
Thats it, I'm out of patience in trying to explain non of the above are possible and I'm hopeful some independent advice will carry more weight!
TIA
“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring”
Desmond Tutu
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She won't develop legs like Forstermann. Will that do?0
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She won't get big muscles.. No chance.. She won't be producing the right hormones. I know a lot of female body builders and serious fitness girly mental cases. More likely she'll get toned up a bit and feel a bit happier.
She won't even get big from doing heavy weights unless the diet is right. Sooo much harder for girls to put the muscles on.
The only thing she might do - if she gets really in to it is lean out a bit. if you click on my sig link on the stretching videos e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WElIDKxmyQo&t=5m28s - there is a lady who does serious heavy weights and because she doesn't cheat/dope there is not a huge amount of muscle mass on her. That is not to say she is not ridiculously strong.0 -
Much depends on the body type of her parents...
"muscles are curves on girls"
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Slowmart wrote:Can the wise and collective knowledge appropriately offer their informed opinion to my daughter please?
The simple questions are.
Will cycling make her legs like rugby players large, strong and bulging?
Will cycling a couple of times a week will maintain a base level of fitness, albeit 12 to 20 miles a week with no adverse outcomes with muscle mass?
Thats it, I'm out of patience in trying to explain non of the above are possible and I'm hopeful some independent advice will carry more weight!
My daughter is now 15yo and has been cycling alot plus xc running and the usual school sports - for many years and is super slim, 50kg - and is always the one the teams want on their team in almost any sport.
there is no bulking up..... the effects of eating xxxx from McD's and other such places will have a far greater effect as will sitting on her ar$e like 95% of other teenagers.
cycling for a couple of hrs a week will bring about a general feeling of well being, a sense of achivement and WILL NOT increase her leg size or anything else.
But if she is dead against it, then there is nothing more you can do, short of bribery and corruption.0 -
It is actually pretty hard to bulk up muscles in general. It takes dedication and the correct diet. It is also harder for females than males. I have no idea why girls seem to think that looking at exercise/a weight will turn them into someone with a bodybuilder's physique in short order. It just isn't going to happen.
How many pro cyclists have huge legs? Not may and they tend to be sprinters. Most of the pro tour guys are wiry. Get her to look at the well known female cyclists such as Laura Trott and Dani King. They don't have hugh muscley legs and will do far more cycle training than your daughter.
Cycling will improve leg muscle strength and likely make the legs look better due to the better shape of exercised muscle. That is a good benefit.0 -
She'll get long shapely calf muscles that will look great in killer heels and a short skirt.
You want her cycling you say? .... :shock:0 -
You need to do high resistance loads, for low quantity reps, to tear the muscle fibres and so build large 'power' muscles.
Cyclists have 'twitch' muscle fibres, that can work for long periods at low to medium intensity. These never get very large, even on the pros.Boardman Elite SLR 9.2S
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Unless she's planning on mashing very very big gears at very low cadeneces, it won't affect the leg muscles in terms of size - although it might make them more efficient.0
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Even with big resistance - a woman will only gain about 50% as much as a man doing exactly the same workout.
Women have less muscles mass (almost half) and their muscle fibres are between 25% and 50% smaller than men. Natural body building works by tearing and rebuilding muscle fibres. Growth rates are a factor of the original muscle fibre sizes, even though women have more growth hormone than men its the lack of testosterone, which prevents the growth.
Lastly diet is at least 40% (some say 60%) of the result in natural body builders. You need to take on vast quantities of protein to fuel the growth - Remember very few body builders are natural and I don't know of any big girls that are believed to have done it without some sort of anabolic assistance.0 -
Tell her to google Emily Batty.
A muscle bound minger if ever i saw one
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I'd have thought the likes of Wiggins and Froome would have provided a definitive answer to this one...0
