After stopping practicing
First of all, I want to make it clear that you should never worry that your muscles will get fat. There is a simple reason. Muscles don't get fat, because they are two completely different tissues and have nothing to do with each other. I taught in high school biology class that muscle cells and fat cells are completely different and naturally will not change each other. Will many people care about whether the muscles will shrink after stopping exercise?
The answer is yes. Fitness is a long-term exercise, and it will definitely not be done once and for all. If you exercise, it will always be like this. The gym owner has no place to put his hair and is worried about all this. If you really want to cry, once you stop exercising, your muscles will shrink, even your other abilities will decline, and the lost fat may grow back. This is inevitable, and neither you nor I can escape. This is a sad fact.
Muscles shrink because they have obvious characteristics of advancing and retreating, just like the human brain. If you don't let your brain move and turn for a long time, it will become dull, but if you engage in mental activity for a long time, your brain will only turn faster and faster. Muscle is the same, the more you use, the stronger you are, and the less you use, the weaker you are. The sports we usually do are stressful and exciting to our health. Adequate nutrition supply and guaranteed rest will make the body muscles more developed and healthy.
After stopping exercise, the body will have no stimulation brought by exercise. The internal environment of the body is no longer enough to support the current muscle mass, and the muscle protein will gradually lose, the muscle will gradually shrink in appearance, and then it will relax and its function will weaken. Simply put, the body will not use so much, just as an enterprise will recruit a large number of people to work when it is very busy, and the decline in economic level will inevitably lead to layoffs.
After stopping training for a week, our athletic ability will begin to decline, which is the conclusion of a study for bodybuilders. After completely stopping exercising, the week passed smoothly. After a week, the exercise ability began to decline slightly, and the muscle protein in the muscle group began to lose. After two weeks, these phenomena will become obvious. If you stop exercising for more than a month, your muscles will become much looser than before, which is really hard.
However, the speed of muscle atrophy varies from person to person. After all, everyone's physique is different, and the length of time to stop training is also different. The original training level and muscle mass are also different. In addition, age, hormone secretion level and everyone's eating habits are different, so everyone is different. Don't say others are so slow, I am so fast. You are different.
Another good news is that even if you stop training your muscles, they won't keep contracting. Muscles will have a guaranteed amount to be responsible for their own health, so don't think that after training, they are inferior to untrained people, and of course, don't think that people who have been training for a long time will not be themselves if they stop training. Even if you don't practice muscles, a fitness expert is worse than someone who hasn't practiced at all, even worse than yourself who hasn't practiced. Similarly, other sports abilities, such as sports level, are the same. As the saying goes, a thin camel is bigger than a horse.
Even if muscles atrophy, it is much easier to come back from exercise than when there was no foundation before, because muscles have memory function, just like themselves; After practicing for a long time, even if your brain forgets what to do, your body will remember. Muscle memory is much better than forgetting yourself. As long as the previous training has reached a certain level, it doesn't matter if you stop training for a long time afterwards. It is relatively easy to recover, which is related to many factors.
The first is muscle protoplasm. The main reason of muscle atrophy is the loss of muscle protoplasm, but it is still very difficult to decompose the most important myofibril, so the loss is naturally less, and the muscle protoplasm recovers quickly. In the body, besides muscle reserve, there will be muscle control, which is obtained through training. Muscle control and muscle strength will be preserved to a great extent, that is, when you enter the training again, you will not be as unfamiliar as a novice and will soon enter the state.
In addition, although I stopped practicing for a while, I still have some experience in various training methods, such as diet, how to train and so on. These will also help you to take less useless roads and improve your training speed.
Then we will answer whether the muscles will disappear after stopping training. The answer is yes, definitely not. Muscles will only atrophy, not disappear. These are two different concepts. The disappearance that everyone said is actually fattening in the popular sense, that is, their muscle lines are covered with fat and become inconspicuous, and their muscles are no longer strong. But in fact, our muscles have not stopped moving, even after paralysis, there will still be some. No matter how many muscles are needed, the number of fibers in the muscle will not change.
Whether people will gain weight after stopping exercise or because of different eating habits, there is no fixed answer. Some people still eat high-energy fitness meals after stopping exercise, so the intake is not proportional to the expenditure, and naturally they will get fat. However, some people have changed their diet with the cessation of fitness activities, and they still won't gain weight, and even look thinner because of muscle loss. After I stopped practicing, I decided on my own. If you let yourself go, you may get fat, the law is strict, and you may lose weight.
Maybe I feel bad that my hard-earned muscles are gone, so this is also a good solution. Just don't stop exercising. Generally, people with very good fitness habits will not stop exercising easily. Even if you lose it, you can earn it back quickly. In addition, even if the muscles will shrink, it will take a process, not very fast. After all, it is a strong muscle, not a balloon.