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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pilates, barre to lengthen
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Are you trying to tell us that doing these exercises is going to physically lengthen OP's femur?

You can lose weight, or you can let your leg muscles atrophy. If you have a body type that naturally holds on to fat in your legs, losing weight will be hard. Might be better to embrace your body instead, challenging as that may be for someone like you.[/quote]

It's unlikely op's body shape will change significantly but by doing exercises that lengthen muscles vs shorten (jumping, lifting) they might look a little leaner.

"Someone like you" - wtf?[/quote]

Your muscles will not get longer by doing barre or whatever.  that is nonsense.  If they got longer they would be bunched up around your bones.  Similarly, weight lifting does not make your muscles "shorter". [/quote]

NP here.  The pilates posters have been to too many classes where they constantly talk about "lengthening" the muscle.

It's not that pilates lengthens the muscle.  It's that pilates tends to work and strengthen some muscles that just don't get attention in other types of workouts.  So it balances out the work.  Often, when a person does one type of exercise/workout/weight lifting routine, they tend to really, really strengthen some muscles but do nothing for other muscles.  Pilates (or really just cross training) can help balance out whatever other workout you do by strengthening some of the areas that just don't get targeted otherwise.

But no exercise is going to give you longer legs.  My observation has been that very athletic women who have short legs tend to have the problem I think OP is talking about.  They have short legs and a long torso, so it makes their athletic thighs *seem* really large because of the proportions.  I think it's best to just accept your body type.  You also can make sure that you strengthen your upper body and core to help create more of an hour-glass appearance.  But really you can't change the length of your legs and torso.  Do what you can to be strong, and then love the body you have.

If you are going to do pilates, I would add yoga or some backbending to the mix to balance it out.  Most pilates classes I've been to really don't do enough in the way of backbending to balance out a lot of the other movements.  Just a personal opinion.[/quote]

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