What happens if I stay in a small surplus (+/- 200 calories) everyday while vigorously cycling every other day? Could I build some leg muscle or would I just get fat?
I'm quite light for my weight (65 kg, 143 lbs) and moderately tall (185 cm, 6'1), and I want to build some muscle and endurance to not feel like shit all the time.
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Imagine her vagina contracting on your dick, god fuxking damn it.
Maybe you should try squats
just ride a single speed/ fixed gear in hilly areas.
Thanks for the tip fren. Should I ride in intervals of high speed or just at a moderate pace all the time?
I'm sure you can build muscular legs from just biking. But to get like OP's pic you basically have to lift weights, right? Those two probably do all sorts of squats and shit as part of their training.
>tfw after even 10 minutes of cycling my quads are toight af and it burns like a cocksucker just to bend my legs 90 degrees when I stand afterward
Heavy squats never achieve this level of burn bros, what gives? Is it just lactic acid buildup?
aye i burned like hell after riding a bicycle with a flat back tire. by the way any bikefags know how to fix a flat bike tire? especially if the bike is not yours and you have to do it clandestinely. i am also not black skinned, but white skinned.
Take off the flat tire and put on a not flat tire, works for me
Buy a small tire plug kit from Walmart or use a can of fix a flat or just take the tire off and put a patch on the leak. If you are having trouble finding the leak, try submerging the whole wheel in water and look for bubbles from escaping air. If that is not an option, squirt a solution of dish soap and water on to the tire and look carefully for suds that are building up over an air leak.
Who the fuck would want legs like that? They can't even walk normally.
>They can't even walk normally
Yeah but they bike everywhere.
>what about indoors or other places you can't take a bike?
That's what unicycles are for.
I live in an area with a shit ton of serious cyclists and the answer is no. You will not build big legs cycling. Squatting 2 plate will give you bigger legs than cycling. You can get nice calves though. A lot of the best cyclists I know are skinnyfat.
>unicycle indoors
Based autistic weirdo.
OP, get a copy of pic related.
Basic leg strength is typically built in the off-season in the gym, then later you do interval training at moderately low cadences to build muscular endurance (which is what allows you to go fast for long periods of time, like for an entire 40km time trial).
What I learned from cycling was to just keep pushing.
There's a tendency to rest when you're going downhill or just keep pace when it's flat. Don't do that.
Keep the pressure on for the entire ride.
>A lot of the best cyclists I know are skinnyfat.
Define """best'"" though? Best at climbing? Best in a TT? Best in a sprint? It's a rare cyclist who is 'best' at all the above.
Shorter, lighter cyclists tend to be better climbers, because they're light -- but they get their lunch eaten by bigger riders on the flat, who push the pace.
Natural sprinters will kick out a 40mph sprint, but don't climb all that well or endure for long periods at higher speed on the flat, unless they have bigger teammates to draft.
Bigger riders can excel at long hard efforts on the flat, like a 40km time trial, but *physics works* so they tend to get dropped on long climbs, and they don't usually have the acceleration to win a finish sprint.
Lots of different kinds of '''best''' in cycling.
>The "just ride" training philosophy
That only gets you so far, user.
Track cyclists like that squat too, it's more of a sprinting sport than endurance like most road cycling.
I have been cycling for 5 years now doing hills, sprints and long distance 4 times a week.
My legs didn't even grow an inch.
But you got faster, right? And your legs got harder, right?
Training for an endurance sport like cycling, you don't train for muscle mass, you train to get dense muscle with lots of muscular endurance, and you back that up with a high degree of aerobic endurance.
your legs will get huge but you'll lose your natty card
My legs didn't really change, if anything they got leaner. The biggest difference is my ability to sustain and overcome for longer.
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It’s called test-e 300mg/wk for 18weeks, pct + ai then repeat
Olympic cycling was a thing before weight lifting was popularized, and they had insane development. They also were putting needleborne drugs in their body. Figureit out
Strong, quick bursts are better for musculature than "cardio" training.
HIIT, and it's even possible getting whole-body into it.
dont waste money on a single speed, those are hipster faggot bikes. get a road bike and skip that meme single speed garbage.
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yeah a little bit
but every professional athlete is on PEDs either for recovery or for strength so don't compare yourself to them unless you are too.
Right. Denser muscle, more mitochondria = better muscular endurance = go faster, longer.
Yeah sure blah blah blah STEROID blah blah blah nobody fucking cares about your /fraud/ shit you faggots all seem to think that it's impossible to make fitness gains without cheating.
>doesn't train for cycling as a competitive sport
>correspondingly has no idea what training for it is really like
You have about 10% of the total solution there, bub.
*snap*
The OP's inquiring about legs musculature …
Aww did spandex cuck get triggered? Maybe the guys sprinting on track bikes in a velodrome have big legs but all your long distance cyclists dont.
Not the guy you were reacting to but it's lycra, not spandex dumbass.
Is this a fit humor thread? Their legs are so big they cant stand side by side
>look it up
>it's literally the same thing
Figure out an rpm range that you can maintain and stick to it, hills will naturally force you to do hiit.
>Can you build leg muscle with cycling?
yes a couple cycles will give you legs like that
>Can you build leg muscle with cycling?
Yes.
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I work as a bike courier, my lengs have shrinked since I started because I am not able to maintain my squat.
how do you become a bike courier ?
>go to courier HQ
>eyo y'all needa courier?
just squat retard
and read sticky