Guy who wins stage 16 of Tour De France posts pic of his legs.. Why don't runner legs ever look like this???

Honestly the shaven legs helps a lot too. I think 90% of the reason cyclists shave is just because of how defined your legs look

Because runners don't all do EPO.

Broken Feets wrote:

Seriously, why don't pro marathons ever look like this but a cyclist does? Is it because Cycling is resistance?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BWshQ0FhGhY/

Pawel Poljanski has not won a stage...

'bling' Matthews won stage 16

I think most (but not all) pro distance runners legs do look like this. I think this kind of vascularity shows up pretty frequently in runners when body fat is really low (~3% which would explain the lack of females with legs like this) and training volume is really high. When I saw Rupp at the Pre Classic a couple years ago his legs looked like that. Cam Levins and Matt Hughes too. There is certainly a genetic component too because not all high volume pros with ~3% body fat have legs that look like this.

Priscilla Lopes-Schliep the hurdler had extreme leg vascularity... well beyond this tdf picture and it was related to a genetic condition.

My arms usually look like that after beating my meat.

The condensed answer would be: Cyclists are actual hard training athletes.

A female runner I follow on instagram (sub 3 hours marathoner, so fast but not elite) posted a picture of her legs after using normatech or another compression pants type recovery machine. It gave her a look similar to this, although not quite as pronounced. She normally has nice legs but they do NOT look like that normally.

plus some dehydration

MaxHawk wrote:

If the best marathoners ran for 6 hours straight their legs would probably look like that. The reason TDF bikers legs look like this is a 'perfect storm' of three factors

1. Very lean, shows veins. Runners also have this going for them.

2. Very strong cardiovascular system, they pump A LOT more blood around especially into their legs. Again runners have this going for them.

3. Long duration of activity, this is the kicker, since they are in the saddle for so long day after day the blood spends a lot of time in their legs meaning the veins really pop. This is where runners vary- I haven't seen pictures of ultra runners legs at the end but I could imagine they look similar.

Iseeoj wrote:

Probably helps to be really dehydrated to get that cut look.

Run a few hours every day for 14 days. You can't eat enough to keep the weight on. It's not like they start with an extra kilo either.

Anyone think his legs look like prosciutto?

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/pork-leg-jamon-serrano-prosciutto-market-43219150.jpg

FormerFred wrote:

Honestly the shaven legs helps a lot too. I think 90% of the reason cyclists shave is just because of how defined your legs look

Try crashing with hairy arms and legs while going 30mph. Let me know how the clean-up afterwards works out.

How has no one said this yet wrote:

Because runners don't all do EPO.

Broken Feets wrote:

Seriously, why don't pro marathons ever look like this but a cyclist does? Is it because Cycling is resistance?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BWshQ0FhGhY/

Correction:

Because MOST runners don't do EPO

Cyclists like to pump themselves full of chemicals that can cause vasodilation.Not to mention chemicals that reduce body fat very low levels.Pretty obviously actually. Not sure why he would post that photo....almost confirms doping.

Broken Feets wrote:

Seriously, why don't pro marathons ever look like this but a cyclist does? Is it because Cycling is resistance?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BWshQ0FhGhY/

Cycling is much cleaner than athletics. They have had strict doping for the last decade and a witch hunt for dopers from everyone involved in the sport . Athletics only catching up now on the testing side of things but not even close to the internal witch hunt. Extremely difficult to get away with doping in cycling now. Very easy in athletics.

Because people with legs like this are really slow runners

david Torrence's were pretty veiny

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPn8i7EUkAAdwQS?format=jpg

crazyguy wrote:

I find that sexy, attractive, desirable

But I'm a guy?

fagget

dfgfdgd wrote:

Anyone think his legs look like prosciutto?

Great, now I'm hungry.

Yea, but Max is a 'one off.' You don't see any other runners with his level of muscularity/vascularity/leanness