From athlete to ...

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I have recently graduated from college where I was a very busy student athlete. I played basketball and soccer and have been physically active year round for as long as I can remember.

Now that I am on my own and not as active, I can tell that I am losing muscle and putting on some weight. I am worried that all my muscle mass from years of sports is going to turn fat. I still love working out and am on an elliptical 4-5 days a week but it is not cutting it. How can I save what muscle mass I have and gain muscles that are more lean instead of bulky?
 
Well the only way to preserve lean muscle and lose fat is to adopt a strength training program along with clean up your diet a little. Maybe you should post your diet and many here would be willing to help. Strength training is not going to bulk you but instead it will preserve (and increase) your lean muscle which will burn the fat. For each pound of muscle you have, you burn an extra 50 cals a day. Doing only cardio is not the ticket. Just look around the gym. A good percentage of those people are cardio committed but they look the same week after week. the ones who look different are down doing weights.
 
Ain't that a kick in the butt,

I remember being an athlete in college training 5x a week for close to 4 hours a day. I ate whatever the hell was in front of me. I could care less. I was a human furnace. THen SLAM...welcome to the years after college. Eating pasta too late at night will cost me my abs. Tapping the keg will give me a hangover that may put me out of the gym for a few days. Just simple reality check.
You move less than you did in college. Definitely, less physically active....stress increases relacore....relacore causes cortisol.....you need belly fat....or something like that.
Your diet has to be more keen
Hit the gym hard and build quality over quantity
Don't bounce around on a treadmill like a little cardio bunny unless you want to look like a little cardio bunny
And no more keggers

Goodluck
 
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