To answer this question, we must first understand what changes have taken place in the body and living habits of bodybuilders since they started to exercise.
Usually a person with regular living habits will not change his body shape in a short time without changing his living habits. However, when this person starts to exercise, his living habits will gradually change with the needs of fitness.
First, in his body, muscles will gradually increase and fat will gradually decrease. If this person is of medium height, his weight may not change much at the beginning of fitness, but he looks stronger from the outside, which is the effect of increasing muscle and reducing fat.
Second, his eating habits will change. Because muscle itself is a luxury calorie nike blazer, the basal metabolic rate of a bodybuilder will gradually increase after his muscle increases. In order to cope with the calories needed for muscle and high-intensity training, he had to supplement quite a lot of carbohydrates. In addition, the demand of muscle trainers for protein is much higher than that of ordinary people, and the weight per kilogram can reach 1 ~ 2g, which means that they may eat more lean meat, eggs and dairy products. Of course, in order to prevent fat growth, bodybuilders will limit the intake of foods such as fat and monosaccharide, and the diet will be healthier. But even so, its diet contains enough calories to make an ordinary person fat.
Thirdly, due to the limitation of fat and monosaccharide, a lot of energy required by bodybuilders may be absorbed from potatoes, miscellaneous grains and other foods, and the calories contained in these foods per unit mass are not high, so the total amount of food intake will be higher than that of foods with relatively concentrated calories. For example, if the heat of a plate of fried chicken rice is provided by boiled potatoes and chicken breast, his food may be full of four plates! In this way, the appetite of this fitness enthusiast will be "lengthened". What's more, in order to keep muscles warm with protein at any time, bodybuilders usually arrange extra meals between meals and before and after training, and three meals a day will become six or even eight meals a day. In a word, bodybuilders eat more and digest faster than ordinary people.
As can be seen from the above, bodybuilders consume more and eat more, and their bodies need to "open source" and "open flow" calories at the same time. So, what will happen to his health once he stops fitness training?
First of all, the heat consumption will be greatly reduced. When muscles keep training regularly, the basic calories needed will increase. If you don't train, the calories consumed in the original training are directly zero. In other words, if you keep training several times a week, you will also consume a lot of calories during muscle breaks between trainings. However, if you don't train for several weeks, your muscles will be "cold", the strength that can be exerted by the same volume will be reduced, the basal metabolic rate will be reduced accordingly, and a large number of calories will be "saved". If you continue to stop training, the body will contract and lose muscles in order to save energy, and the consumption of calories will be further reduced.
Conversely, calorie intake may increase. You know, the amount of food is not like calories. If you subtract it, you subtract it. After bodybuilders stop exercising, the digestive system is still working as efficiently as ever, so eat the same amount of food, or you will be hungry. At the same time, due to the cessation of fitness, the diet may not be so strict, and high-sugar drinks and greasy dishes that were not touched in the past may return to the diet. In other words, the calorie intake may be higher than that during fitness. How to "cut costs" and "open source" without getting fat?
Secondly, from the appearance, the visual impact of bodybuilders after gaining weight is much higher than that of ordinary people. As mentioned earlier, when a person starts to exercise, muscles will increase and fat will decrease. In other words, even if the appearance remains the same, the ratio of internal fat to muscle has changed. When you stop training, the fat you lost comes back. Even if you don't get fat, you will look fatter than before. Because when human beings observe others, they will compare with their previous impressions. If a person with strong muscles is covered with a thin layer of fat, others will make his fat thicker and his muscles thinner according to the previous experience of observing fat people. This "sad reminder" fact directly leads many professional bodybuilders to dare not come out to meet people in the off-season.
Of course, although this "curse" exists in most bodybuilders, it doesn't mean that we can't do anything about it. A fitness enthusiast needs to leave the gym for a period of time for some reasons, and some measures can be taken to avoid getting fat. For example, we should continue to maintain strict eating habits, and reduce the intake of some carbohydrates and protein on the previous basis to make up for the "gap" in calorie consumption. You can also maintain muscle vitality and slow down muscle loss through simple training such as empty-handed squat and push-ups in your spare time. In this way, when he returns to the gym, at least he will gain much less fat and lose much less muscle.
Even if you want to give up muscle training forever, you can escape the spell. Just rearrange the recipes according to your physical needs and choose other sports you like. Just like Kevin Leeflang, a famous bodybuilder, lost a lot of muscles after retiring, but because he kept a healthy lifestyle, his weight did not increase, but he became a thin "handsome guy". Of course, those who choose to do this must be psychologically prepared and accept the cruel reality that your hard-earned muscles will gradually disappear-if you give up muscle training, your muscles will give up on you.