“Are female runner legs unattractive?
I’m a female runner in both cross country and track. Since I’m short, my legs don’t have room to stretch out into super thin legs. So my legs are muscular and slightly bulky. Is this unattractive?
Best Answer – Chosen by Voters
you dont look at the mantle piece when you’re poking the fire.
Other Answers:
1) Yes. Clearly, the solution is to stop running immediately, and start getting pedicures instead.
2) I think bulky leg muscles are unattractive on everyone. To prevent them from bulking up so much you need to stretch more.
3) They may seem super bulky to you, but I’m sure they look fine. :)Here, have a cupcake.
4) that depends ,,,,,are they hairy ?“
Borrowed from Yahoo Answers
A female endurance running buddy and I have an ongoing discourse regarding the “attractiveness” of legs (ours and others) that log so many miles. Clearly we are not the only people who ponder this state of affairs. I think of the inevitable bulkiness added to my short pistons as a beautiful-ish badge of honor, while she would rather have running only tone and elongate her legs. Don’t get me wrong- I’m not 100% in love with my body and the way that it looks (see Week 12 Day 4, for example). I often feel like a stocky little sausage waddling alongside runners of enviable height. Chalk it up to my Serbian genes– but although I’m only 5 feet 2 inches tall, I’m not built like a petite American woman. No amount of self-induced starvation or Pilates will change the fact that I am small, not slight. For some reason, I’m more forgiving of my legs and their imperfections than of any of my other body parts.
Logging 13 miles on the Mill Valley Multi-Use Path, one passes and is passed by many pairs of legs. I think dissecting and assessing other people’s bodies is terribly wrong, but can’t help but notice when a nice set of appendages (male or female) jogs or cycles by. Such anthropological research also helps to pass the time when running for consecutive hours. And if I keep the negative thoughts to myself and only articulate the positive comments, its OK, right?
To show you what I mean, here’s a tidbit of a conversation from today’s run:
ME: “OMG! We’re getting lapped by the girl pushing the Babyjogger!”
NOT ME: “Runner’s legs.”
ME: “I was just thinking how awesome and muscular her legs are.”
NOT ME: “The rest of her is tiny and her legs are so big.”
Hmmmmm…. you say toe-mate-o I say toe-mott-o, but in the end It doesn’t really matter what either of us thinks about other runners’ legs. You know, I’m not even sure where I’m going with this post anymore. I just find it so interesting, yet not surprising, that the subject of women’s legs can generate such vastly different opinions amongst friends and Yahoo Answers responders. Picking ourselves and others apart physically, is so much a part of our culture that even when we wish we could, it’s difficult to stop.
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