How long will it take to build muscles in my legs and thighs if…?
How long will it take to build muscles in my legs and thighs if…?
I do spinning at the gym for about an hour. Three days a week
I'm a young women of 5'6.5 in height and I weight about 150 pounds
Pretty quickly you'll notice your legs are getting toned and more defined. If you combine your spinning class with restricting your caloric intake, you'll lose weight, as well.
Cycling, however, is fundamentally an endurance activity characterized by doing lots of repititions with low resistance. For example, if you maintain a pedaling cadence of 60 RPM, you will be doing 3600 repititions through an hour long spinning class. Cyclists, like long distance runners, don't tend to build lots of muscle bulk.
They can have highly defined muscles, but they won't have a lot of it.
As others have stated previously, building muscle bulk requires low numbers of repititions with high resistance. Thus, if you want to build bulk you need to do some weight lifting along with your spinning classes.
Muscle bulk formation, however, is also a function of testosterone. Due to their low testosterone levels, women are incapable of putting on as much muscle bulk as men.
Hope this helps you.
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December 25th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Spinning will quickly tone your legs and will increase your endurance and cardio capacity in very short order too. But building muscle is a long term goal. Most people are under a false impression that you'll see significant muscle growth in a month or so - not true. Weight loss coupled with toning can give the impression of growth. If you're in the gym anyway, the fastest, most efficient way to build muscle is heavy resistance training, weight machines are the best for legs being the safest and easiest to use. Check with the staff there for a beginner's leg routine. I highly recommend doing the spinning as well.
A year on a steady routine will build verifiable results of muscle growth.
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December 25th, 2008 at 10:48 am
I'm with MR.
All these products that claim 20 pounds of muscles in a month are for suckers. If you can put on two to five pounds of pure muscle in a year natural you're doing good. Remember you aren't adding muscle, you are making the muscle cells you have bigger. This comes through adaptation to stress (resistance). The spinning is good but you might want to throw in one day of weight training per week.
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December 25th, 2008 at 11:16 am
M R is right you won't build muscles spinning, but heavy resistance training will.
So if you want to build muscles then stick in a higher gear than normal and struggle with you're pedaling! - Better still find some hills!
It's not easy and it hurt's but that's the only way!
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December 25th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
pedalling will only build your endurence fibers in the muscle,now,being that the muscles on the legs are the most used,they have to be pushed beyond the norm…you have to do heavy compound weighted resistence movements to build leg muscles
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December 25th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Pretty quickly you'll notice your legs are getting toned and more defined. If you combine your spinning class with restricting your caloric intake, you'll lose weight, as well.
Cycling, however, is fundamentally an endurance activity characterized by doing lots of repititions with low resistance. For example, if you maintain a pedaling cadence of 60 RPM, you will be doing 3600 repititions through an hour long spinning class. Cyclists, like long distance runners, don't tend to build lots of muscle bulk.
They can have highly defined muscles, but they won't have a lot of it.
As others have stated previously, building muscle bulk requires low numbers of repititions with high resistance. Thus, if you want to build bulk you need to do some weight lifting along with your spinning classes.
Muscle bulk formation, however, is also a function of testosterone. Due to their low testosterone levels, women are incapable of putting on as much muscle bulk as men.
Hope this helps you.
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December 25th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
spinning is nothing like the real thing so it will take a long time… get a bike instead and you'll build some great shapely legs in no time. Gyms are for weight training only… stay away from cardio equipment and go outside and do the real thing
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