Stretching after exercise will not reduce muscles, but will enhance the synergy between muscles and help improve the speed of muscle growth. However, female friends don't have to worry that stretching muscles will lead to thick legs. Because stretching after exercise will make muscles more elastic, avoid muscle stiffness and "dead" muscles, and make calves more linear instead of stiff and bulky.

a

There are two main reasons why some people's calves get thicker after exercise. On the one hand, muscular legs. After exercise, the calf muscles get exercise and become bigger, making the legs look strong. On the other hand, if you don't relax in time after exercise, your muscles will be in a state of tension for a long time, and your flexibility will decrease, which will lead to stiff muscles and thick legs.

If you want stovepipe, you must first distinguish whether you belong to muscular legs. If the legs are naturally prone to muscle growth, then when exercising, try to avoid doing muscle training for the calves. You can exercise your thighs, stretch your calves, and make your legs look even and slender.

b

Some female friends will worry that strength training will make muscles bigger, and aerobic exercise is the first choice when choosing stovepipe exercise. But in fact, combining strength training with aerobic exercise can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

There is no denying that the effect of aerobic exercise on reducing fat is really good. But in the process of doing aerobic exercise to reduce fat, muscles will also be lost. If the muscle mass is less, the basal metabolic rate will decrease. In this case, if you stop aerobic exercise or don't pay attention to your diet, the lost fat will rebound soon. However, if you exercise your muscles through strength training and consume sugar in your body before doing aerobic exercise, and then you consume fat through aerobic exercise for 30~45 minutes, your leg will lose weight faster and rebound more slowly.

You should do some stretching exercises before and after exercise. Stretching before exercise can exercise muscle elasticity, play a stretching role and play a good warm-up role. This can avoid muscle strain during exercise. The main function of stretching after exercise is to relax muscles and improve elasticity. Not stretching after exercise will lead to the decrease of muscle flexibility, and lactic acid will accumulate muscle soreness and hinder muscle recovery and growth.

c

Static stretching is the main method of stretching after exercise. In addition to grasping the correct posture, we should also control the strength of stretching. Stretch until the target muscle has moderate pain. Never stretch with brute force, otherwise it will easily damage muscles and ligaments.