Get big legs or die young

Gains · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:15 am Post subject: Get big legs or die young

Some people scoffed when I said I wanted to have big legs AND be a decent cyclist. I now laugh in your collective faces:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8236384.stm
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Billy Boy · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:20 am Post subject: Re: Get big legs or die young

Gains · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:25 am Post subject: Re: Get big legs or die young

kingkongsfinger · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:33 am Post subject:

[b]NEVER EVER, EVER POINT THIS NEWS ITEM OUT TO YOU WIFE/GIRLFRIEND AS I DID !!![b] Embarassed

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Gains · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:41 am Post subject:

KJ · T de F Winner Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 26400

They don't make trousers/slacks/ jeans for well muscled legs.
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Des · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:18 am Post subject:

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JimmyRay · E, Silver Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 1838 Location: Exeter

Now this magic 23.6inch figure just happens to be the circumference of my thighs when relaxed, so I guess I am in the healthy heart range.

Now what makes this curious to me is that my thighs are big... certainly big enough to (as KJ alluded to) struggle to find jeans that 'fit' properly.

Now that being the case, if 'normal' jeans are cut for 'normal' people, than surely people with 23.6in or above thighs are a minority with lower risk of heart disease, rather than those with smaller thighs being a minority with a pre-disposition to heart disease....

Anyway... how should one measure thigh size, relaxed or tense... if I tense teh thighs are just shy of 28inches... where does all teh extra inches come from?

martin smith · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:47 am Post subject:

60CM is the 90th percentile, which implies that the paper puts 90% of people in the 'high risk' category. useful. Rolling Eyes

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JimmyRay · E, Silver Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 1838 Location: Exeter

Or from my perspective, I am one of the luck 10%, now where are those doughnuts? Refined sugar anyone?

Tucker · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:58 pm Post subject:

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Tucker · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:39 pm Post subject:

Roy Gardiner · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:02 am Post subject:

I don't have big thighs at all -- 20". My cholesterol is high. I am a diabetic which also increases risk of heart disease. Yet when scanned (electron beam tomography) I have no trace of furring or hardening of the arteries, even though some is expected with age. I have a heart like a newborn.

This (a) shows the exception to standard wisdom (b) explains why I'm so shyte at cycling, maybe the heart of an adult would be better.
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Tucker · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:40 am Post subject: Re: Get big legs or die young

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