Does having alot of veins in your legs mean you have a better aerobic capability than someone who doesn't and is it completely genetic. Cuase I know it has something to do with cappillery beds, but I have seen some good runners who have veiny legs and some who don't, and alot of people with veiny legs that have never run before and there is a reason for that, they suck. What's the deal?
By 'more veins in your legs' I imagine you mean 'more veins visible on your legs.' In that case, I'd bet it doesn't really mean anything other than you may have less fat in your skin so the veins are more easily seen. I don't really know anything about this subject, but I'm just guessing that it doesn't really mean anything.
I have heard having visible veins in the leg has been reffered to as having alot of capillery beds in your legs, but never that you don't have alot of fat. I am not too knowlegable myself but I don't know if the fat argument is correct.
I doubt this guy has a great aerobic system but he looks like a road map:
Lack of body fat = more veiny
J Smoove wrote:
Does having alot of veins in your legs mean you have a better aerobic capability than someone who doesn't and is it completely genetic. Cuase I know it has something to do with cappillery beds, but I have seen some good runners who have veiny legs and some who don't, and alot of people with veiny legs that have never run before and there is a reason for that, they suck. What's the deal?
I disagree about the veins showing because of a lack of fat. I believe it's more genetics/way you mechanically move and develop your muscles (spouse has super veiny legs, while I do not, despite years and years of miles). As you develop your aerobic system, your body actually moves fat to be closer/around the working muscles to make aerobic metabolism more efficient.
So in other words are u saying that just because you don't have veiny legs doesn't mean you're not developing an efficient aerobic system.
Yes.
Runningart2004 wrote:
I doubt this guy has a great aerobic system but he looks like a road map:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Dexter_Jackson_IFBB_2008_Australia_4.jpg/400px-Dexter_Jackson_IFBB_2008_Australia_4.jpgLack of body fat = more veiny
Oh Alan, you meathead! Don't go subtly posting pictures of yourself.
So the appearance of veins in your legs isn't actually capillery beds. This is what I have been told, is that the appearance of veins in the legs is actually capillery beds, and so it would oviously mean you have a more developed aerobic system. but I am guessing this is false?
Step 1: Get down to a bodyfat under 5%.
Step 2: Go run, exercise, whatever, to get dehydrated.
You'll be very veiny.
How would distance running in general create more capillaries toward the skin? It wouldn't. Serves no purposes. Endurance activity increases capillaries deep in the muscle. Why? Because that actually serves a purposes...to transport blood in and out of the muscle cells.
Increased blood flow to the skin is an adaptation to training in the heat. Go run on a hot day. You'll be veiny.
Alan
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