Spinning is a very popular "sporting activity. Nonetheless, many women give it up for fear of getting their legs too thick. Conversely, many men who try to maintain a certain volume in their lower limbs suspect that spinning makes all the work unnecessary. practiced in the weight room.
In this article we will focus mainly on the female problem and for men, who face the opposite dilemma, we suggest reading:
Aerobic Training and BodyBuilding :
- If the legs have too much fat thickness it is necessary to lose weight; to do this, aerobic physical activity associated with a low-calorie diet therapy is very useful. On the other hand, if there is a significant amount of cellulite or orange peel (often caused by water retention alone), sometimes not even slimming can be really effective
- If the legs are too thin, it is essential to increase muscle mass; to do this, anaerobic physical activity with a hypertrophic background is very useful
- If the legs tend to become muscular immediately, it would be preferable to exclude them from any training protocol that encourages muscle growth.
In the first two cases mentioned, spinning can be very useful; in the third, however, it is advisable to proceed step by step but without the fear of "doing damage". The increase in muscle mass is an easily reversible phenomenon; in the event that an unwanted hypertrophic level occurs, it is sufficient to decrease or interrupt the training stimulus to ensure that the districts quickly return to the basal state.
Is it therefore possible to try spinning without having this problem? Let's find out.
and on self-evaluationFirst of all, it must be specified that, for the most part, each of us tends to "interpret" our body image negatively, which makes the opinion of ourselves distorted by definition. This interpretation is actually a very complex and difficult "construct" to explain in a few lines. We therefore limit ourselves to defining that it is a re-elaboration and contextualization of all the surrounding body images, closely linked to the emotional state of the person; it is a pity that, in the multi-media era and graphic retouching, 90% of what surrounds us has all the air of being better than what is reflected in the mirror.
