Maintaining muscle?

Question

When you've worked out (including weights, pushups, situps) to the point where you don't want to get any bigger, how much of a reduction should you make so all your doing when you workout is maintaining your muscle?

Answer 1

working your muscles to fatigue a bare minimum of once a week will help you maintain what you have, though I'd shoot for twice a week to be safe. If you don't use it, you'll lose it.

Answer 2

Work out less than 4 times in a week. You can do work outs that tone muscles instead of gaining muscle. These involve no weights and all you do is move a section of your body to contract the desire muscle and extend until you become fatigued. Involve the legs by squatting while moving the arms.

Answer 3

Switch to daily calisthenics. Like Hindu squats, hindu pushups, and back bridges. Check out the combat conditioning article on www.bodybuilding.com.

Answer 4

you simply don't increase your calories any higher than they are. resistance training only provides the stimulus that the muscles need to adapt and increase in strength, etc. the diet decides the size of the muscles not the load used to stimulate them