How to run without growing muscles

Running is an aerobic exercise. When we run, we mainly want to lose weight or improve our physical fitness. However, many female friends are worried when running. They are afraid that they will grow muscles through running. This is also what most female friends are afraid of. In fact, running not only does not grow muscles, but also makes your figure look better. This requires running skills. Let us learn about it together.

Method 1: Warm-up exercises

I believe that it is no longer necessary to popularize the idea of ​​warming up before exercise, especially before running, when stretching the legs is particularly important. Only when the calves are fully warmed up and stretched properly can they be put into combat in the best condition.

Method 2: Landing Techniques

The most important technique for losing weight is running. Many girls land on the forefoot when running, which makes running easy and effortless, but it is not suitable for girls with thick calves. The correct way to prevent your calves from getting thicker is to land on your heels and then jog with the entire sole of your foot touching the ground. We can compare it to race walking. Which race walker has overdeveloped calf muscles?

Method 3: Aerobic exercise

The actual fat burning starts after 30 minutes of continuous exercise, so you need to keep running for more than half an hour. It is important to note that you should not mistakenly believe that the more intense the exercise, the better the weight loss effect. It is wrong to only focus on the calories consumed in each exercise. Generally, jogging at 6-8km/hr is very suitable. Once the intensity is increased and the speed is accelerated, the calories consumed will indeed increase, but it will cause excessive burden on the calves and knees, and the muscles will grow faster.

Method 4: Calf stretch

Stretching after exercise is crucial to shaping your calves. Here I would like to give you a tip: those lazy ladies can completely give up the traditional leg-lifting press. A more convenient way is to stand at an arm's width away from the wall, then support yourself with your hands on the wall, with your body forming a 30-degree angle with the wall. Hold on for 5 minutes and feel your calf muscles being infinitely stretched. You can adjust the position according to your body flexibility.

Method 5: Soak your legs in hot water

Don’t think that you’re done just by doing calf stretching exercises. There is still one step left in your plan for beautiful legs, which is to keep soaking your calves in hot water after running. You can buy a wooden barrel, soak your legs, listen to music and read a book to fully promote blood circulation in your calves. After soaking, use lotion to massage your calves. The choice of cream is not very demanding. Apply it on the calves and massage from bottom to top, and massage in circles until it is completely absorbed. After applying, gently pat your calves to relax your muscles completely.

The above is a method of not growing muscles through running. We can use the above method when running in normal times. Exercise is for our body to be stronger and for our figure to be better. When exercising, we must not only pay attention to the way of exercise, but also pay attention to the method of exercise.