Will Running Make My Legs Muscular?

Question

I'll be running 30-40 minutes every day.
Will that make my legs muscular?
If so is there any way to achieve lean looking legs without them looking muscular?
Thanks. xx

Answer 1

They won't look muscular. They probably won't look that much different from how they look now except a little firmer. I run a lot but I would say the reason I have big legs is because of genetics. Look up the female sprinter Allyson Felix. Her legs are very lean but they aren't bulging or veiny.

Answer 2

The running will help with the leanness, especially if you take long strides, but it won't make your legs muscular. You'd have to do something a little closer to resistance weight training for that.

Answer 3

Long distance works the white mucles tissue, it will not look muscluar if you do long runs, it will burn a lot of fat
Sprints will make your legs more muscular, but since women hve estrogen, it'll probably take a couple of years of training to finally see the muscle
Sprints work the red muscle tissue

Answer 4

Well, depending on your body type, your results will vary.

Males will tend to have more muscle show than females (running that amount).

Personally, my legs are mostly the same, a bit firmer, and you can definitely tell that they are running legs because of the muscle line in your thigh and nicer calves...

Answer 5

it will if you do it for a long time as in for years but only for like 6 months they will only get stronger. if you want muscular legs run like what u say for years

Answer 6

Runnning is the way to achieve lean looking legs...

Answer 7

Running will give you excellent looking legs!

Answer 8

in short, you dont need to wory about that one bit. it takes a good 2 years of hard training to make leg muscles noticeable.

Answer 9

they wont get big and bulky just firm. running will make them look better