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I was curious, I don’t plan to swim after I graduate high school in about 1 1/2 years for college. I’m pretty burned out and it took too much of my time, though I will still swim but just for the health benefits. I was wondering, how much do you lose in muscle weight from being a swimmer? I swam butterfly a lot for the most part and I know normally you gain tons of muscles from doing that event. Around the shoulders, stomach, thighs, and the rib areas but not much of calves like breaststrokers though. I was wondering…normally how much muscles do swimmers who stop swimming competitively normally lose? I’m currently 5’4 1/2 and about 125, all muscle and about 5% body fat. I don’t do weights or anything. I started taking up running and continue to do so if I don’t get to swim often at the gym. Just curious from any swimmer, normally someone my height is supposed to weigh about 110 or about 112, so is the definite answer that when I stop swimming I will lose all of my muscles?

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