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.

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.

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Gastrocnemius develops well because there are more low-intensity exercises such as standing and walking. Don't run, don't do violent explosive exercise, so the soleus muscles will be weak. As a result, the calf looks thick on the top and short on the bottom.

If you want to stretch to promote muscle growth and achieve the goal of stovepipe, you must pay attention to stretching the soleus muscle as much as possible. That is to say, in the case of relative knee flexion, soleus muscle is mainly stretched. Bending knees can stretch soleus muscle well, while straight leg stretching mainly stretches gastrocnemius muscle, which is of little significance to stovepipe.