How to identify the type of thick legs:

1. Fat type of thick legs

Pinch the thigh skin with your hands, it is very easy, thick, soft and saggy , Even if you don’t squeeze it with your hands, you can still see obvious cellulite, which is a typical fat leg.

2. Thick muscular legs

It is very difficult to pinch the thigh skin with your hands. It is tight and linear, and it is difficult to see cellulite under the light. When standing upright, you can The dividing line between the quadriceps femoris (front thigh) and biceps femoris (back thigh) is clearly visible. This is a classic muscular leg.

3. Edema-type thick legs

The most typical sign is that the leg circumference changes significantly before going to bed at night and when getting up in the morning, because edema usually accumulates in the lower body and is particularly severe in the legs. .

Women are more likely to have thick legs than men, which is related to gender differences in body fat distribution. Estrogen inhibits the accumulation of fat in the abdomen and increases the accumulation of fat in the buttocks and thighs, while androgen does the opposite. Moreover, women's muscles tend to be more distributed in the lower limbs; compared with men, women's lower limb muscle mass accounts for a higher proportion of the whole body.

Extended information:

1. Muscle distribution of thick legs

Although men have much more muscle than women. However, a 1993 study showed that women's lower limb muscle strength reaches 60% to 70% of men's, while their upper limbs are only 50% to 60% of men's. Women's muscles tend to be distributed more in the lower limbs.

Compared with men, women have a higher proportion of lower limb muscle mass to their whole body. At the same weight, the muscle strength of women's lower limbs is almost the same as that of men, but the muscle strength of the upper body is lower than that of men. Therefore, the thigh circumference index of women is greater than that of men (legs of the same height are thicker), which not only involves fat distribution, but also muscle distribution. .

2. Fat distribution in thick legs

Research has shown that sex hormones can affect fat accumulation. Testosterone, the male hormone, can increase the accumulation of fat in the abdomen and reduce the accumulation of fat in the buttocks and thighs.

On the contrary, estrogen, the female hormone, can inhibit the accumulation of fat in the abdomen and increase the accumulation of fat in the buttocks and thighs. Therefore, adult men and adult women have completely opposite physical characteristics in the waist, hips and thighs due to the effects of different hormones.

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