Unanswered MuscleLoss

[jimenezdavid47]

I've been training for about 15 years daily, consistently. If I completely stopped working out, how fast would I lose muscle mass?


I'm going to guess that the answer here is no, but here I go anyway, has anyone tried to lose muscle mass on purpose?

 

[Jeremyk1]

While I don’t think he was actually trying to lose muscle, swimfan did drop about 100 pounds, and I assume dropped some muscle in the process.

As far as what you’ll lose, it’s going to depend on too many different factors.

 

[ValiantThor08]

You stop lifting, do some light cardio, drop protein, you should see some muscle loss.

 

[jimenezdavid47]

You stop lifting, do some light cardio, drop protein, you should see some muscle loss.

All that, plus the most obvious, restricting calories. I just wasn't to certain how much of a difference it would make dropping protein. I figured you need protein to build muscle, so cutting down on protein and calories could help with their catabolism, if not, at least prevent them from being in a hypertrophic state.

 

[jimenezdavid47]

While I don’t think he was actually trying to lose muscle, swimfan did drop about 100 pounds, and I assume dropped some muscle in the process.

As far as what you’ll lose, it’s going to depend on too many different factors.

Thanks, I'll see if I can get in contact with him. Every bit of info helps.

 

[HIT4ME]

@jimenezdavid47 - curious, what exactly are you trying to accomplish by losing muscle?

 

[LeanEngineer]

@jimenezdavid47 - curious, what exactly are you trying to accomplish by losing muscle?

Same here. Ha i think most tend to want to do the opposite.