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tangomike
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15 Oct 2010, 9:11 pm

So I've been bothered by the way my body has been shaped as a result of the ways I move. I move in the same patterns everyday, and I mean things like the way I sleep, sit, lean on things, stand, walk,run, work out...its like I'm a machine that can't move organically and fluidly but more like a machine with fixed movements. For example I walk in a really funny manner- i have a weird gait thats really repetitive and on a internal rhythm. I also tend to walk really fast and in rhythm, and ppl loook at me and think im weird because im always that awkward guy hurrying past them....but thats what feels natural for me. idk

I used to think that my legs/calves below my knees were weird because they are slightly curved behind my thights (if you were looking down at me from above above them....but recently i realized that its not my calves that are curved behind my thights ....its that my thighs are so large and muscular that they add a few inches to the front of my thighs from the muscle mass which makes my calves/legs look like they are "behind" my thighs. My legs swing like pendulums when I walk, as if my knee was a door hinge or something and my legs "swing" forward after every step from my knee "hinge" . Same thing with my arms, my elbows seem to be like hinges for my lower arms. For both my knees and elbows the muscle is the hardest and densest where the arms and legs reach the elbow and the knee.

I'm pretty sure my lower body is like this because I played high school football /wrestling and trained for it vigorously, all while putting my weight in the front of my feet. Since I tend to walk and put weight on the front of my feet, thats how I run and thats how I do squats and other leg work outs...this resulted in really large muscular legs/round butt early on and its just stayed with me. ...now my lower body just looks strange, it goes from really wide from my hips and thighs then gets thinner and skinner the lower down my legs u go, i have huge thighs but chicken legs, its just weird.

Same thing with my arms, I have strong biceps and triceps and a good grip but again, it goes from muscular from the upper arm and skinnier the closer you get to my hands. I have little to no muscle on my forearms and wrist area, yet I have strong bi-s and tris...wtf?

any aspies who are in sports currently or work out regularly know what im talking about? Or am i just tripping to hard about it...



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15 Oct 2010, 9:59 pm

I have lifelong been a toewalker..so my legs are significantly skinnier/ more muscular than the rest of my body..I have very flexible dexterous toes....and my feet have developed in such a way that enables me to go on pointe. like a ballerina...I have a disproportionately large ribcage for my height..but that is no big deal..my toes are kinda hyper mobile and my fingers are as well somewhat...or so I thought till I met someone who has truly flexible and hyper-mobile fingers



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15 Oct 2010, 10:28 pm

Odd bods topic

I am very asymmetrical. Draw a line down the middle of my body separating right and left halves and from the neck down one side of so different from the other. Perhaps humanly common but I notice the discrepancy.


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15 Oct 2010, 11:34 pm

hmm... do you run? it helps to even out your whole legs. worked for me. calves are always thing, but upper legs weren't as much until recently.
if you do exercises, like push-ups and their varieties, your forearms will build up.



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16 Oct 2010, 6:17 am

Maybe something like Yoga would help you with your muscular irregularities.


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17 Oct 2010, 12:51 am

jamesongerbil wrote:
hmm... do you run? it helps to even out your whole legs. worked for me. calves are always thing, but upper legs weren't as much until recently.
if you do exercises, like push-ups and their varieties, your forearms will build up.


years of being in the military with the associated pushups, chin-ups, running etc. did not substantially change the assymmetry of my body. my upper body continues to be one size smaller than my lower body. not everybody has the genes for a body beautiful.