does shaving your legs make you run faster?
964258
No...they do it so they don't look out of place.  Did you ever see a hairy jogger?  I never have.
936609
I was a USS and NCAA Div I swimmer, and I'm now a coach, and I have never seen a swimmer shave his or her eyebrows (there are a few swimmers out there with a genetic hair difficiency where they naturally don't have eyebrows).  I suppose they are doing it to reduce drag, but there is NO advantage to shaving your eyebrows.  Shaving your legs has a moderate impact in reducing drag, but your eyebrows do not cause drag.
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There are 3 things that you can do to run faster: You can increase your leg turnover rate.\nYou can increase your stride length.\nYou can increase your overall strength so you can maintain a faster turnover and longer stride for a longer time. That is, you run faster by not slowing down as much.\n\nHere are some things to try to affect one or more of these things.\n\n1.Work on your (running) strength. You should do interval workouts, 100 hard run (not sprint) followed by 100 walk/jog, then repeat. Start with 4 and work up to 10-12 repeats as you get stronger. For some workouts, do the same thing with 200s and occasionally a 400. \n\n2. Work on your upper body strength with weights. Do not go heavy, go light. You want to do a lot of quick reps rather than a few, slow, reps with heavy weights.\n\n3. Run some hills. If you can find a long, gradual hill, do some of your 100 repeats uphill. It will increase your knee lift and leg strength. As an alternative, run steps. Hills are better because running steps, you chop down your stride length to fit the steps.\n\n4. Learn to run “Fast, but relaxed”. Jog 20m, gradually accelerate to full speed over 20m, then slow back down to a jog over 20 m. Jog, then repeat. When you do this, concentrate on your form and staying relaxed through the whole 60m.\n\n5. There a some running related exercises that you can do. Skip like a little kid. Do repeat 50s. First skip for distance, making each stride as long as possible, then skip for height, working on getting your knee up and getting as much air as possible.\n\nTo prevent soreness, stretch out completely after your workout. You want to stay as flexible as possible. You don’t want to have one set of muscles working against another set of muscles.  A good book is Bob Anderson's  “Stretching” (See link below) you can probably find it at your local library, it’s a classic. It has pages of stretches. You may also be sore because you are running to tight and your muscles are fighting each other. If you are clenching your teeth and grimacing, you are too tight.
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Adding bulk-extreme increased muscle mass makes you slower because of just that BULK which is done by lifting HEAVY weights.It is much harder to move a large,heavy object than a small one.  You can still lift weights-but don't just concentrate legs-do overall body conditioning or toning (builds smooth muscle not bulk)but do more reps with less weight.  Soccer requires streamlined look -small amount of weight with more repetitions(get Soccer Mags-they tell what kind of body conditioning you need.) To  improve speed -sprint-which means you run as fast as you can until run short of breath STOP then do again  an again and again. This  also develops your stamina for increases lung power which is certainly what you need in soccer.  Once you decrease muscle size of legs you'll regain some of your speed. Can also do Tai-Chi increases stamina and gives leg strength-endurance power comes from legs.  Bu best is to look up Soccer Conditioning see what the pros do.  I love soccer.
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the story goes that running increases your heart rate thereby increasing blood flow throught the body to remove or move lactic acid through the body to reduce soreness. whether or not this is true i'm not sure. but do a search on wikipedia there is a ton of info and external links that can answer this
685634
yes shave those pubes.  plus itll make you look an inch bigger
350211
You have great circulation ! People with vascular/circulatory problems do not have hairy toes and legs. Your problem is an indication of good health. Some cultures love hairy women. You don't like it, so continue the tiresome, daily shaving and remember that you are actually lucky to have something to complain about...LOL. Good luck.
796958
Absolutely. Running for extended periods of time will, indeed, shed fat from the body rather quickly. In order to maintain your success from running,--as you already found out--you will need to have a healthy diet with balanced portions.
817062
No, shaving doesn't make more hair grow.  It only cuts off the tapered end leaving the blunt end at the tip.  This can make the individual hairs look thicker, but it's only an illusion.  The amount of facial hair a person has is due to hormones and genetics.  Facial hair, like any other hair on the body, also has cowlicks (swirl patterns in how they erupt from the skin).  This sometimes makes a beard look uneven or patchy.
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What I used to do was find pictures of what I wanted my legs to look like and I concentrated on the end result.  You can do this...but be reasonable...don't set yourself up too fast for impossble results...you didn't run before you walked.\n\nI also found that having a training partner helped tremendously because they will not allow you to cheat. I happened to be lucky and had a American Football league professional player as my training partner and he would make do another rep if I slacked.....\n\nDon't be too harsh on yourself.  It depends on what your goals are.  It is easy to talk yourself out of doing it...but think of the endgame.
810550
Start a running program.  I am actually starting this today. Your legs will look fabulous!
364116
Thats not true... Shaving has no effect on how fast or thick your hair grows. When you shave, the only thing it effects is perception. Your hair will grow at a different angle making it look thicker. The only thing that decides how thick your hair is or how fast it grows is genetics. If your father is hairy, then theres a good chance that you will be. Like with my dad, he is part indian and has hardly any body hair. I guess you could look into some medicines that help but frankly... go with the clean body, girls find it more attractive in the long run.
388093
Because your irratating the skin, it happens to me when I shave my legs even!
473934
Try waxing instead of shaving
455511
kvhwatcher is right.  I have been cycling for about nine months and about a month ago I started to notice that everyone I was riding with had very smooth legs.  So I got out the razor and about two hours later I had a set of shiny, muscly legs. In no way has it made me faster, but there is a definite difference in the way they look.  I also had my first bad accident on Mon. and I can see where the hair would really screw with road rash.
385449
It may not make you run faster but you may can take turn better which would speed up your time. Since an extra toe will help you balence better.
1017655
It will slow you down if the only runs you do are 7+ miles at a time at very slow speed.  As long as you mix in 150m striders and a tempo run every once in awhile you still should have great speed.  The key is to mix in fast-twitch muscle workouts (ie sprinting, quick accelerations) with slow-twitch muscle workouts (distance) every couple days.  Plus the tempo runs will help you get in shape faster, so it's a win-win.