How can one lose muscle mass (like Webb?)

The best way to lose something is to just randomly leave it somewhere without noting the location for future reference. If you leave your muscle in enough random places you will eventually lose said muscle. This happened to me once and it seriously took me months to find it again.

Good Luck Senor.

There are PEDs that do that.

run 100 miles a week and dont do any workouts, just slow running.

but if you've gained your muscle from not lifting(just running) then that means it is functional muscle that you need...I used to try and lose weight and muscle until i figured that out and I weigh 175lbs

gw1516 t3 hgh

Little Chocolate Doughnuts?

I did it by eating a well-balanced diet, no junk food at all and staying slightly hungry all the time. I got used to being hungry, and lost about 6 pounds of muscle. I was already extremely lean. This worked great for about 6-7 months and I ran some fast times. Then I started getting sick all the time. Bottom line-I have started eating more and feel a lot better. I think, for those of us who naturally have more muscle than a "typical" distance runner, can lose muscle mass and run faster but only for a short while. Then it will catch up with you. I'm an Alan Webb fan, but I don't see this working out well for him.

#1. If I had .01$ for EVERY time I heard a runner (guy or girl) claim that he cannot strength train, espcially if it involves weights, becuase he/she "bulks up" too quickly, I could probably pay off my college loans by now.

#2. If you weight train correctly, as an endurance athlete, you would see very little weight loss but also very little weight gain. Essentially, you would be replacing uncessary fat with muscle. Fat takes up 13% MORE space (on a cellular level) than muscle does. However, muscle is more dense.

#3. Hypertrophy happens at two different levels - sarcoplasmic and myofibril. The difference between the two is that as an endurance athlete, you will not be doing weight lifting at 80-90% of your 1RM (1 rep max). This is the type of lifting necessary to induce myofibrillated hypertrophy. This is the type that competitve weight lifters (doing power lifts and Olympic lifting) do. YOU would be doing exercises that demand less weight and more reps.

If you wtick with a well planned and progressive lifting routine, you are not going to gain weight that will give you a disadvantage for running. I don't care who you are or what your genetics are. I don't care if you are a mesomorph or an ectomorph. It's not physiologically true and I'll vomit if one more person whines about how fast their biceps grow and how it's hurting their 5k training. NO IT'S NOT.

Having larger biceps certainly wouldn't help you run faster, so why carry that extra weight? To a certain point you will run faster if you are lighter, so i don't understand why some consider lifting necessary unless it's for injury prevention.

How about wrote:

Little Chocolate Doughnuts?

Hahahahahaha this ftw.

Since when does lifting = big biceps? I know lots of devout lifters with T-Rex arms.

If someone really wants to lose muscle simply RUN, and RUN A LOT, w/o lifting AND more importantly consume less protein. Also, run in the morning on an empty stomach. Early morning long runs on an empty stomach have a muscle wasting effect.

Alan

anybody have any ideas about how i can get get rid of some capillaries? i seem to have a really extensive capillary system so i stay the HELL away from running because i would be too good at it

also how can i make myself uglier

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There are PEDs that do that.

Like heroin.

Cigarettes and Vodka and Crack diet!

Go ask Christian Bale!

t3 - bingo!

know anyone busted for t3? i didn't think so.

run 100 miles a week and dont do any workouts, just slow running.

but if you've gained your muscle from not lifting(just running) then that means it is functional muscle that you need...I used to try and lose weight and muscle until i figured that out and I weigh 175lbs[/quote]

This is correct. I was weightlifter in college, shifted focus back to running which I did in the HS days. I have just been running as much as my knees will let me (70mpw). I have lost about 40 lbs since 2k6 (5'9") 200 down to just under 160. Finally starting to look a little like I actually run. Running is the best way to get better at running. [quote]D.B.I. wrote:

For 6 weeks follow this simple program:

1) Place the desired bodypart(s) in a cast (plaster or fiberglass, your choice).

2) Starve yourself.

I just wrote biceps because the guy above me was talking about biceps. I'm a firm believer in running to get better at running, so if lifting helps someone run more, then great. But lifting can hamper the bodies ability to recover from running or cause unnecessary weight gain.

Runningart2004 wrote:

If someone really wants to lose muscle simply RUN, and RUN A LOT, w/o lifting AND more importantly consume less protein. Also, run in the morning on an empty stomach. Early morning long runs on an empty stomach have a muscle wasting effect.

Alan

Yes. When the body needs energy and runs low on glucose, it will produce cortisol, which breaks down fat and muscle from your body so it can be used for fuel. How did you think the human body kept going when we are starving?

Neliah2507 wrote:

#2. If you weight train correctly, as an endurance athlete, you would see very little weight loss but also very little weight gain. Essentially, you would be replacing uncessary fat with muscle. Fat takes up 13% MORE space (on a cellular level) than muscle does. However, muscle is more dense.

#2 -- so you are losing fat and muscle appears in its place? Killer, I am going to keep it up.

Fat takes up more space? How now brown cow? What fat takes up more space? Does it take the bigger bedroom compared to muscle? I think you need to go back and read what you read.

Your last sentence starts with "However", but says the SAME THING as the sentence before it.