Losing muscle

[Manuel "Chubby" Medina]

I was lifting weights not to long ago before i started boxin.(been in it for 1 month now aside from two years ago havin boxed 1 1/2 years)
I have fat and Also muscle lots of muscle losiong fat i seem to be doin godo but i am at 157 lbs. and plan to end up at 130 i am 5'3"-5'4". I assume im not goin to drop27 lbs on fat only so id figure ill have to drop muscle while gaining it during training.
My question is whats a good way to lose muscle?

[Trainer Monkey]

Congrats on a question Ive never heard before
You should be at your target weight,but I have never been asked that question before.
In all honesty,Id have to micromanage you in a camp to do it safely

[Howlin Mad Missy]

I was lifting weights not to long ago before i started boxin.(been in it for 1 month now aside from two years ago havin boxed 1 1/2 years)
I have fat and Also muscle lots of muscle losiong fat i seem to be doin godo but i am at 157 lbs. and plan to end up at 130 i am 5'3"-5'4". I assume im not goin to drop27 lbs on fat only so id figure ill have to drop muscle while gaining it during training.
My question is whats a good way to lose muscle?

If you're doing good, stick at it and watch your body change.

Eat less or exercise more - your body will begin to eat muscle for fuel.
If you overexercise a muscle it doesn't get time to rest and grow (also increase chance of injury). Look at the body of a sprinter compared to a long distance runner.

All this is highly oversimplified.

But I'd still say stick with what you're doing and try and eat clean.

[Rocky Balboa]

Good question, and like trainer monkey said one you never hear.

Train very low reps and very high reps no in between. For example at most 5 reps (no more) and more than 25. Reps in between that range increase hypertrophy. One time someone told me that my reps were in that range and I'd gain weight. I switched to the rep range I mentioned and lost 5lbs in two weeks without eating less. Eating less though will help you even better. Muscular hypertrophy relies on eating. If you eat less you will be just as strong but with less bulk. Also stress conditioning more so. Don't drop or even hold back weight training unless absolutely necessary. You should be able to lose the necessary weight with the above methods.

[Trainer Monkey]

Good question, and like trainer monkey said one you never hear.

Train very low reps and very high reps no in between. For example at most 5 reps (no more) and more than 25. Reps in between that range increase hypertrophy. One time someone told me that my reps were in that range and I'd gain weight. I switched to the rep range I mentioned and lost 5lbs in two weeks without eating less. Eating less though will help you even better. Muscular hypertrophy relies on eating. If you eat less you will be just as strong but with less bulk. Also stress conditioning more so. Don't drop or even hold back weight training unless absolutely necessary. You should be able to lose the necessary weight with the above methods.

I guess Id go low weight,high reps,but thats a new one on me

[Rocky Balboa]

Ya, you gain strength but very little if any mass. Look at non-heavyweight olypmic weight lifters. They're shockingly thin (like us boxers they want to be as light as possible) but powerful.

[ono]

Go for an early morning run on an empty stomach. At this point you are in a fasted state as your last meal will have been 8-12 hours ago.

When in a fasted state your body's glucagon levels are at their highest and your insulin levels will be at your lowest.

Glucagon stimulates glycogenolysis, gluconeogenesis, lipolysis, protein degradation, amino acid catabolism and ketogenesis

You will lose muscle aswell as fat...probably pretty quickly.

[wesrman]

If you want to steadily lose weight all you have to do is find out your BMR and then eat less calories than you're burning.

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[jamiebhoy]

I was lifting weights not to long ago before i started boxin.(been in it for 1 month now aside from two years ago havin boxed 1 1/2 years)
I have fat and Also muscle lots of muscle losiong fat i seem to be doin godo but i am at 157 lbs. and plan to end up at 130 i am 5'3"-5'4". I assume im not goin to drop27 lbs on fat only so id figure ill have to drop muscle while gaining it during training.
My question is whats a good way to lose muscle?

If you're doing good, stick at it and watch your body change.

Eat less or exercise more - your body will begin to eat muscle for fuel.
If you overexercise a muscle it doesn't get time to rest and grow (also increase chance of injury). Look at the body of a sprinter compared to a long distance runner.

All this is highly oversimplified.

But I'd still say stick with what you're doing and try and eat clean.

Great answer, the fact that a marathon runner does not carry a lot of muscle is down to the constant working of the muscle and not time for the muscle to recover and grow. Same goes for all training in general, if you effectively over work it is will not recover and therefore not get any bigger. Low to medium weight for high reps and repeat a workout tow day running rather than a coventional split routine for muscle gaining.

One other thing to remember is that if you push weights and have a natural ability to gain muscle size you might want to think about dropiing the weights for a bit. Think about a leg for exapmlt that has been in plaaster for 6 weeks and how much it shrinks, this is muscle atrophy due to lack of use, same applies to weight training , if you cut out the weights, watch your diet and are doing aerobics your muscles will shrink and help with weight loss.

Good luck and keep it up.