to presume that overweight people must have very developed calf and thigh muscles?

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OK, I am unreasonable, but I've never understood why someone who has a lot of weight to carry around doesn't have larger than average muscles in their legs.

If someone went up a flight of stairs carrying several stones' additional weight strapped to their body, it wouldn't take long for their muscles to get bigger.

So, why doesn't this happen to overweight folk?

NOT a fat-bashing thread AT ALL.

Most people who are really properly fat don't move much on the whole so they are not going to be carrying all that fat around enough to develop muscles hefting it from place to place.

I was 9 stone overweight at new year (now 6 stone overweight, a'thankyou) and even at my biggest I walked on average 30 miles a week with my dogs. I love to walk.

Think that trumps your pissing about in the garden.

Come and talk to me when you can walk 16 miles in a day carrying a 9 stone backpack, then tell me fat people are lazy.

I DO have very good calf and thigh muscles, much more developed than my mum's who is a healthy weight and walks the same distance as me.

Why are some people so scared of debate? All the silly biscuit stuff. Just formulate an intelligent reply! It's not an offensive question!

Exercise is harder work the more weight (body weight or other) that's being carried. It's a fact of physics, so not really too controversial to muse about muscle tone.

Do you think that just maybe this thread isn't very kind? Overweight people aren't a separate, alien species. They aren't animals in a zoo. Quite often being overweight is synonymous with feeling absolutely shit about yourselfand fairly freakish to boot and here you are mulling over minor points that really don't matter.
Engage your brain before you post

I'm overweight (size 20) and do have really big calf muscles. I do walk at least 6 miles a day and am on my feet all day at work so it might be more to do with that though.

That is exactly why it's so offensive - it's something you could have found out without treating fat people like some sort of oddity

People can be both fat and have muscles. Look at top-level rugby prop-forwards, who are shaped like barrels but have immense physical strength in all their muscles (not just legs) and aerobic fitness far above 99.99% of the general population.

It obviously depends on how much exercise is being done and shown like for like with other body sizes.

I really don't think it was an offensive question. I'm not offended, but then I do have a thick skin, to go with my massive legs.

I'm obese, and I can leg press twice my weight with no training (which I would guess is the closest you can get to independently testing weight, since it's just the weight I'm pressing, not the weight plus my own weight).

I think if day to day you're carrying around 100kg in weight, then you must have stronger legs than someone carrying around 50kg (activity levels being equal). It's just that everything you do has to count that extra 50kg in which makes it less clear, plus the fat is in the way of seeing it.

Come and talk to me when you can walk 16 miles in a day carrying a 9 stone backpack, then tell me fat people are lazy.

That is incredible - you are carrying the weight of another person around with you all the time. Do you not find it absolutely exhausting? When I carry a heavy backpack (which will be a lot less than 9 stone, which I literally couldn't lift) I feel like I am floating when I remove it.

And anyway, there are worse things, like CANKLES, which even thin people can get.

Wtf are cankles?

Oh just fuck off op.

OP I am confused though, how do you know how developed the leg muscle is on the larger built people you've seen?

Who's treating overweight people like an alien species? Some people just enjoy feeling offended, don't they?

I'm overweight and I was wondering why I don't have great calf muscles, after I bought a skipping rope with leg weights!

I'm obese, and I can leg press twice my weight with no training

Me too - and I can walk upwards of 30 miles in a day, even though I'm carrying the equivalent of a packed holiday suitcase in flab.

I quite like being big and strong. There are worse things to be.

Your OP didn't say you were wondering why You don't have great calf muscles. It was wondering about why 'overweight folk' don't.

Livia cankles = calf/ankles. Those legs that go right down to the feet without dipping in. Like cider bottles.

I'm sixteen stone, walk eleven miles 3 days a week for work, have calf and thigh muscles of steel but a horribly wobbly belly . I think you can be fine in one bit and huge in another?

(See pictures of legs and said belly)

I wasn't wondering specifically about me; more overweight people in general.

Shouldn't you be gnashing your teeth and becoming more and more offended, Livia?

Let me help OP...

If you had said 'why, when I am carrying extra weight do my legs not become uber muscular' then you would have had sensible answers.

You worded your OP as if you were wondering about fat people in general

Any special reason you have addressed me when I am one of the few who hasn't told you to fuck off or given you a biscuit?

Yep, massive muscular calves, thighs and buttocks. Smoothly coated with flab.

I AM wondering about overweight people in general!

Give it time, OP. You'll soon be yomping around busting out of your knee length boots and cutting the elastic off your socks like the rest of us.