Too much muscle
BeverlyCamel
Posts: 2 Member
My body is naturally super musclular. I'm losing weight and I'm not lifting just cardio. I'm currently a server so I get my cardio ever night I work lol. I'm losing weight but I just look so lumpy and big now that fat is disappearing. I'm trying to get a leaner look. I've got gains but with clothes on I still look like I weigh a ton. Cause the muscle mass I have. How do I get a leaner look and not like a god damn body builder.
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Pics or it didn't happen25
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Ouch - harshing on the bodybuilders out there. The only way to have muscle mass is to lift heavy and eat at a surplus for gains, so I'm a bit perplexed at how you have significant mass, but only do cardio. Pics would help.7
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What are your stats and bodyfat%? Have you competed in bodybuilding previously or weight trained your whole life? Most likely you have fat covering the muscle, so you look bigger and muscular than you are.5
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Unless there was an extensive history of lifting, you are not super muscular.7
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poor thing
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Is this like "I'm not fat, I'm big boned?"13
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Read it
This one too
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love these posts (sarcasm)! I've noticed every female that claims to be a super muscular she-hulk never has a pic to back it up (I've seen the same claims in Facebook groups and every time the person only has tight photos of their face).
OP - "lumpy and big" is unlikely to be muscles that have emerged on their own from you doing "only cardio."4 -
muscle isn't "lumpy." fat is "lumpy."9
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BeverlyCamel wrote: »My body is naturally super musclular. I'm losing weight and I'm not lifting just cardio. I'm currently a server so I get my cardio ever night I work lol. I'm losing weight but I just look so lumpy and big now that fat is disappearing. I'm trying to get a leaner look. I've got gains but with clothes on I still look like I weigh a ton. Cause the muscle mass I have. How do I get a leaner look and not like a god damn body builder.
Keep going with leaning out and ignore the useless comments. So long as you're eating at a calorie deficit and regularly exercising you will lean out in time.12 -
Why the hate for body builders?
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BrianSharpe wrote: »Why the hate for body builders?
Nobody hating on body builders, but claiming that you've "accidentally" developed a competition level body is absurd.3 -
stanmann571 wrote: »BrianSharpe wrote: »Why the hate for body builders?
Nobody hating on body builders, but claiming that you've "accidentally" developed a competition level body is absurd.
OP's last line.0 -
stanmann571 wrote: »BrianSharpe wrote: »Why the hate for body builders?
Nobody hating on body builders, but claiming that you've "accidentally" developed a competition level body is absurd.
1000% this, especially as a woman the idea is absurd.2 -
stanmann571 wrote: »BrianSharpe wrote: »Why the hate for body builders?
Nobody hating on body builders, but claiming that you've "accidentally" developed a competition level body is absurd.
OP's last line.
Ah, That's certainly a possible explanation.
One of the reasons I almost always use the quote button.
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This can happen if you accidentally touch a free weight that isn't coated with pink neoprene. Perhaps you unwittingly brushed up against a kettlebell or weight plate somewhere?21
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Thread #21038012458 with "too much muscle" claims and no pictures. Congratulations!3
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stanmann571 wrote: »BrianSharpe wrote: »Why the hate for body builders?
Nobody hating on body builders, but claiming that you've "accidentally" developed a competition level body is absurd.
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stanmann571 wrote: »BrianSharpe wrote: »Why the hate for body builders?
Nobody hating on body builders, but claiming that you've "accidentally" developed a competition level body is absurd.
I was referring to the OP and her "not like a goddamn bodybuilder" line.....0 -
I have a lot of lean mass from when I was 240lbs. I do think I have more lean mass than most women my height because of my weight history and the fact that I kept most of it lifting while I dieted down, but even still it wasn't what I thought it was. Even now I still have a decent amount of fat even though I look muscular. Trust me here, keep what you have and lift something. That's the only thing that'll save you from the lumps.3
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This is one kind of super muscular female body builder doing what must be done to become a super muscular female. Relax. Stay in a calorie deficit and you will lean out eventually.4 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
This is one kind of super muscular female body builder doing what must be done to become a super muscular female. Relax. Stay in a calorie deficit and you will lean out eventually.
But she's not super bulky because of lean mass, she's got a large BF% too. It's necessary for what she doe but let's not pretend that she's some superhuman female muscle wise because she's still female. So even if OP started powerlifting, she's going to struggle to look anything like what she's perceiving as a bodybuilder.3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEe_eraFWWs
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