The culprit that makes the legs look thick is not the muscle, but the thick subcutaneous fat layer. The pinched part in the judgment method mentioned above is subcutaneous fat. Because of the same weight, the volume of fat is three times that of muscle! The picture below is a computer simulation. Compare the lower limb contours of the same person with different fat content. The fat content on the left is half that on the right. Therefore, it can be seen that fat has a serious influence on the contour of the leg.
Your legs must be getting thicker and harder now. Right? This is actually not muscle growth, but muscle congestion after exercise. There are many capillaries in the muscle. During exercise, blood will pour into these capillaries to provide energy for muscles, but it will not flow back soon after exercise and will last for a while. So it will make the exercised parts look thick and hard. In addition, if you don't stretch massage, it will naturally become very thick and hard. Leg Stretching Search on major video websites can find many teaching videos.
All you have to do now is keep running. Reducing fat and shaping is a long-term process. Fat is a systemic increase or decrease, and local fat reduction is not available in the field of sports. Now, as long as we persist for more than half a year, there will be obvious results.