Will squats make your thighs thicker?

Squats are a very energy-consuming exercise, and this exercise has many benefits for our weight loss. However, we must pay attention when squatting and master the squatting posture, otherwise it is easy to damage our knee joints, because in the process of squatting, the knee joints have to bear the weight of our whole body. So, will frequent squats make the thighs thicker?

The squat is a simple, basic exercise for building lower body strength that has always been controversial. The squat was once called a "power beast" and there is a famous saying in the bodybuilding circle: "No squat, no perky butt." However, some people say that doing too much squatting will hurt your waist and knees, and some even say that doing too much squatting will cause your striated muscles to dissolve and cause physical discomfort. However, for most girls, these are not the core issues. What is important is whether doing more squats will make the legs thicker. This is the question in the girls' minds.

There was once a popular saying that doing a squat can contract the muscles on the front of the thigh by 70%, but only contract the gluteal muscles by 20%. In other words, doing squats cannot achieve the purpose of training a perky butt, but will make the thigh muscles thicker.

This statement has brought more injustice to the squat than Dou E. The reason why legs become thicker is because of excess fat. People nowadays lack exercise, so most people have very high fat content and relatively less muscle. So if you want to have thin legs, you must first lose fat.

Moreover, squats mainly exercise muscles, and muscles grow when stimulated. The same goes for a perky butt. Because the gluteal muscles are stimulated and the muscle dimensions increase, the butt becomes perky. In other words, squats will also make your legs thicker. However, for girls, the rate of muscle growth is much slower than that of boys, and their legs will not become thicker just by doing squats.

Therefore, squats are more about burning fat, reducing the fat content in the legs and slowly increasing the muscle content. As long as you persist in exercising for a long time, you will find that your leg circumference does not become thicker as you imagined, but will decrease instead, achieving the effect of slimming down your legs.