Isn't this similar to what Marty Nothstein went through when he converted from sprint/track to road racing? He started training for endurance rather than sprinting which meant he targeted the slow twitch muscles and neglected the fast twitch ones which were the bulk (at least that's my pea brain description of the concept).
The neglected bulky muscles needed for sprinting and weightlifting will atrophy. It's not really training muscles to atrophy so much as just neglecting the muscles you want to shrink and training the ones that have been neglected before.
editing to add stuff I found on a ski forum (see page 3 of thread)
http://www.epicski.com/forum/thread/...dustry-hype/60
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09-11-2009, 09:05 AM #3
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