would running or jogging or doing squats make your legger bigger as the muscles increase?
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How big are your leg muscles now? If they are already large, they will not likely get larger. Even if they are just average size, running or jogging will not necessarily increase the size of your leg muscles. The type of running will optimize your leg muscles for that specific action. For example, if you run a lot of short, fast sprints, your leg muscles, particularly the thigh muscles, will become optimized for that action which requires larger muscles. If you run long distances, the muscles will become optimized for that, which means medium-size muscles. Just look at the olympic-level runners and you will see that the ones who run the 100 meter or 200 meter events have fairly large thighs while the marathon runners are thin overall, including their thighs.\n\nDoing squats will tend to optimize the muscles for that heavy lifting which requires large thigh muscles. But you will need to do a lot of squats each day to notice the increase. Riding hills on a bicycle will do the same thing.\n\nLean legs are the result of toning which involves burning away the intramuscular fat. You cannot burn fat on a spot location basis. Any fat deposit in any part of your body will burn away as you do excercize for long intervals, such as 30 minutes at a time or longer.\n\nTestosterone also has an effect on muscle gain so you will notice that women weight lifters are usually not as bulky as the men.
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It's not always so... It depends on a number of things: which part of the body you are talking about, the natural assymetry of the body etc.\n\nFor instance if you use one hand more than the other (like a tennis player might), the muscles would tend to increase in size as a result of the increased activity...\n\nIn addition, the human body is not perfectly symmetrical in anybody.
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exercising will sometimes make muscles stronger and bigger and muscles weighs more than fat.  Don't step on the scale, use a tape measure.
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Execise: hike up mountains, lunges, squats....check this out. It works! Butt muscles should increase, not butt fat!!
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Work on a strength conditioning program for both your upper body and your legs also.  Don't lift weights to increase muscle size because that will slow you down.  Lift to increase muscle strength.  There is a difference.\nAnother thing you can do is practice your swing by standing a bat's length away from a wall or a fence.  Then swing the bat at full speed without hitting the wall or fence.  When you get good at this, you can eventually move closer until you are 1/2 bat length away.
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run and lift weights to build muscle.
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Yes, a lil bit. Sprints strengthen calves which increase your vertical. You can also do jump roping, ladders, calf raisers.
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There are two things I diod to help that. 1 use the parachute run method. They have small parachutes that you run against that help to improve leg strength. 2nd weighted shoes, really do make you build leg muscles. And most important spend time in the weight room.
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gat a lot of exercise more to gain more muscle mass
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lunges, running, walking, jogging.......it lifts and firms your butt and makes it appear bigger because it's...lifted
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Heavy weight works your type-2B muscle fibers. The way you do this is to put on a weight in which you can not exceed 6 to 8 reps maximum, if you can do 9 then it is to light. This breakes down the type-2B fibers of whos characteristics are No endurance but extremely strong. This will cause your muscles to grow larger.\n\nLigher weight works your type-2A muscle fibers. You work them by choosing a weight in which you perform 15 to 20 repetitions no more no less but whatever you choose the final rep should be extremely difficult just like the 8th rep noted above. The characteristics of these fibers are that they are not as strong as the type-2B but have more endurance.\n\nType-1 fibers are totally endurance. For the long distance runner etc.. to work them with weights you would have to pick a weight and perform 100 reps slowly.\n\nSo in summery if you only lift heavy you will get larger but may not have that cut up look, conversely if you just do lighter with high reps you will get leaner muscles but not as large. Most people do these in combination, say 8 weeks on one type then 6 or 8 on another possible adding in supper sets etc.
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Yes it will as you are taking your weight against gravity which takes more effort and uses more energy....;
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you are building more muscle mass which actually weighs more than fat
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Streching. Get a Yoga book from the local library. Streching increases the rate of metabolism in one's body, which causes faster muscle build up. If you work out regularly, you will no longer feel soreness in your muscles.
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If you do a lot of running it will tone down the amount of fat you have in that area and add muscle in its place.
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If you're looking to gain mass (size), do heavy weight/low reps.  Low weight/high reps builds strength, but not size
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It's supposed to increase muscle side.