However, I've heard that if you stop, you butt and thighs will become bigger than they used to be before you started exercising. Is that true or is it a myth?
2006-11-24 05:46:37 · 13 answers · asked by Hideaki Takizawa 4 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
It is really all relative. Any cardiovascular exercise will aid in your ability to lose weight, as long as your calorie intake balances it. Once you begin working out on a regular basis, you may find that your appetite may increase as you are continuously burning calorie. As far as getting larger if you stop, it may be a result of eating the same amount of calories you did when you were exercising, even though you are not burning as many calories.
In regards to muscle building, everyone is different. Running utilizes all muscle groups in the leg, biking primarily uses the quadriceps and swimming uses all the muscles but is non-weight bearing. See a trainer for help.
2006-11-24 07:06:32 · answer #1 · answered by piscesski 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The only way to become skinnier is to be on a "calorie deficit". Meaning you must burn more calories than you eat. All kinds of exercising, of course, helps you burn more calories, but it also dramatically increases your appetite. Which can very easily cause you to take in more calories than the extra calories you burned, due to the sensational hunger you inevitably will experience. Now, if you are willing to exercise very strenuously you will become leaner (as opposed to skinnier) without being on a "calorie deficit".
The female autonomy causes women to primarily gain fat on the butt and thighs. But there is no correlation with exercise. Unless, again, you are willing to exercise very hard and develop muscular butt and thighs.
2006-11-24 06:52:38 · answer #2 · answered by Ivar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard swimming makes you stronger. The weight of the water. Cycling works legs. Running you move your arms and legs. So you burn some fat running and build muscle.
2006-11-24 05:54:58 · answer #3 · answered by ♥c0c0puffz♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Women don't develop large muscles like men do, with one exception -- the thigh muscles.
Runners don't develop large thighs (although they aren't skinny), but cyclists definitely do. Swimmers are somewhere in between.
The winner for monster thighs in women belong to tap dancers.
So, in that respect, you are correct.
2006-11-24 05:57:05 · answer #4 · answered by geek49203 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
running and swimming are two of the toughest excercises you can do and are the best workouts you can do....and if you swim and run for a long time you will build up muscle..if you quit than like any muscle you build up, it will turn to fat...
2006-11-24 06:08:26 · answer #5 · answered by boygib8lsu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's probably a myth. But even if it wasn't if you want to get skinny you have to do it every day you can't stop even if you're still skinny. Keep excersizing!
2006-11-24 05:50:53 · answer #6 · answered by Phil 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually assuming you're eating the same way you did when you did those sports you miight actually get bigger....always remember to adjust your diet depending on your amount of activity
2006-11-24 05:51:57 · answer #7 · answered by dP 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes cardio and swimming make you become skinnier!
2006-11-24 06:00:32 · answer #8 · answered by sims_queen1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will make you toner and fitter--it will convert your fat to muscle. When you stop, that muscle that you have gained will reconvert back to fit
2006-11-24 05:49:05 · answer #9 · answered by discmiss1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes because your exercising and building muscle.
2006-11-24 05:48:39 · answer #10 · answered by dramaqueen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋