Squats The Challenge

[Birds]

His thighs have their own Facebook group

[TTT]

comical

[mad082]

I'd love to see a bike race between powerlifters... it would be a very fast, very short race... probably followed by a lot of heavy breathing, sweating and swearing lol

I don't think it'd be that fast. Most of them would be out of puff before they even got going very fast, lol.

[mad082]

According to Wikipedia, Robert Forstemann actually has 34" thighs.

According to my dressmaker tape, I have 22" thighs.

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I only have 20" thighs, but I'm 6'2 and weigh 72kg and don't do any sort of gym work (just a few hours on the bike most weeks)

[No Crust Racing]

I just grabbed the tape and at the biggest point even I have just under 26inches and I can't even squat my own body weight yet and I'm far from fat either so I wouldn't be too caught up on size gents, Birds is smaller but much stronger etc.

Where you guys measuring from? I'm just standing up and measuring towards the top half of my leg at the roundest part, flexed it's bigger again.

Sidebar, I have skinny legs so u guys must have really skinny legs or I'm measuring wrong somehow.

[Birds]

Measured around the thickest part and flexed. I'm naturally skinny with a narrow bone structure, having weighed 63kg @ 6'3 once upon a time. As Nick said, it's tough for tall guys to get big legs. And size does not always equal strength!

You may not be fat, but still possible to have a bit of fat on your legs.

[bozodos]

damn can't find the measuring tape. Funnily enough my legs were the first part of my body to look and feel toned, but I can squat more than my bodyweight (if only I could bench or dead the same amount!)

[mad082]

I just measured about halfway up my thigh. If I measure right up towards my groin then I get 22".

I'm not to fussed on muscle size, otherwise I'd hit the weights. But being bigger wouldn't help me much. I'm more interested in being able to go up hills fast, which means less weight and more stamina. I'm currently working to get under 70kg.

[No Crust Racing]

I'm not sure what mine are flexed, currently stuck on couch with baby sleeping on my chest. Bigger but not sure how much.

Birds, at 6ft and 65kg I was a rake, you must have been close to death at 63 lol

Eat a burger man.

Boz, I'll trade you some Bench for leg strength.

Side bar: Squatted a little for the first time

Since last week when my back went south. Physio OK'd it and to my surprise it felt decent.

My pelvis is starting to feel different (maybe better in some way?)

[NickR33]

Tom Platz says you all have chicken legs

[No Crust Racing]

And he's right 0_0

[TTT]

Mine measured at 23cm

edit - hang on what did you guys measure?

Edited May 30, 2013 by TTT

[No Crust Racing]

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[L33SH]

lol TTT

[markos]

No one asks Jack how big his legs are

[markos]

I'd love to see a bike race between powerlifters... it would be a very fast, very short race... probably followed by a lot of heavy breathing, sweating and swearing lol

A powerlifting meet between cyclists would be just as funny, huge squats and 37.5kg bench pressing

[NickR33]

I was asking Jason (Chiro) if he saw many cyclists... I see so many of them hunched over their bikes with the most godawful flexion in their spine... he said a lot of them have back issues

[markos]

Most sports will have there dangers

[mad082]

I was asking Jason (Chiro) if he saw many cyclists... I see s many of them hunched over their bikes with the most godawful flexion in their spine... he said a lot of them have back issues

it isn't so much that cycling causes back issues, but just that plenty of people with back issues cycle (my back actually plays up if I don't ride for a while). some certainly don't help themselves though, by setting their bike up poorly, or not getting fit up properly when buying the bike.

[DJBarnstar]

There are some elite riders that have that cramped style. Escartin was one, rominger to an extent and even lance Armstrong when really pummelling a time trial.