How fast does muscle revert ?
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Was just pondering this earlier.
Ok, so you are the average 13 stone bloke, train hard for two years, eat right and end up a lean 15 stone of muscle, the decide you cant be bothered any more and go back to the diet you ate before.
How long before you end up exactly where you started ?
Is that how it works ?
Would you end up exactly the same if you just went back to the same routine as pre gym or does it cause any permanent changes ?
Ok, so you are the average 13 stone bloke, train hard for two years, eat right and end up a lean 15 stone of muscle, the decide you cant be bothered any more and go back to the diet you ate before.
How long before you end up exactly where you started ?
Is that how it works ?
Would you end up exactly the same if you just went back to the same routine as pre gym or does it cause any permanent changes ?
J4CKO said:
Was just pondering this earlier.
Ok, so you are the average 13 stone bloke, train hard for two years, eat right and end up a lean 15 stone of muscle, the decide you cant be bothered any more and go back to the diet you ate before.
How long before you end up exactly where you started ?
Is that how it works ?
Would you end up exactly the same if you just went back to the same routine as pre gym or does it cause any permanent changes ?
I was never lean, but after being at my fittest i stopped for a few years.Ok, so you are the average 13 stone bloke, train hard for two years, eat right and end up a lean 15 stone of muscle, the decide you cant be bothered any more and go back to the diet you ate before.
How long before you end up exactly where you started ?
Is that how it works ?
Would you end up exactly the same if you just went back to the same routine as pre gym or does it cause any permanent changes ?
I got fatter but stayed heavier than i had been to start with.
I went from 120/130 kg to 70kg over 6 months of training, got really lean. I stopped training due to work and ended up with a 46in waist in about 12-18 months, was out of breath and looked like a butter bean!. Took me another 6 months to lose it and get back to 80kg, never been able to get below it, plenty of puking during hard pt sessions when I started made me more determined. I'm hovering around 90-92 kg now, scaled my running back and cross train for functional work, also judo twice a week. I've found that each time I gain weight and then lose it my muscle size and shape changes.
You loose it a lot faster than you gain it.
I used to be in a position of only being able to train for 6-7 months of the year. The odd session was done when I could in the off months. I pretty much lost all of what I'd done before.
I've changed jobs now and just getting back into it to a fashion. Juggling work and family etc leaves little time to train. I'm tempted to swap to a Pure Gym now just so I can train late at night when everything else going on is finnished.
I used to be in a position of only being able to train for 6-7 months of the year. The odd session was done when I could in the off months. I pretty much lost all of what I'd done before.
I've changed jobs now and just getting back into it to a fashion. Juggling work and family etc leaves little time to train. I'm tempted to swap to a Pure Gym now just so I can train late at night when everything else going on is finnished.
Know anyone who has been in a cast for, say, a broken leg? 6 weeks in a cast and disuse atrophy will reveal a leg like a matchstick when the cast comes off. If you simply don't train the muscle will take longer to atrophy as another poster has noted - maybe months. This is because although you're not training you still use the muscles - getting up out of a chair, reaching up to a cupboard etc.
I've been in the gym on and off since I was 15 and 2 years ago I slipped a dics affecting my left leg, no matter what I do or how many reps I do on my left leg it is visibly smaller than my right.
This was within 5 weeks, been hitting the gym for over a year but it makes no difference my left leg is still a pipe cleaner.
This was within 5 weeks, been hitting the gym for over a year but it makes no difference my left leg is still a pipe cleaner.
popeyewhite said:
Know anyone who has been in a cast for, say, a broken leg? 6 weeks in a cast and disuse atrophy will reveal a leg like a matchstick when the cast comes off. If you simply don't train the muscle will take longer to atrophy as another poster has noted - maybe months. This is because although you're not training you still use the muscles - getting up out of a chair, reaching up to a cupboard etc.
When my brother broke his leg years ago, the doctors & physio said the ball park figure in this situation is 1 month recovery for every week of immobilisation in plaster. That's if it goes well and you follow rehab physio to get back in shape seriously. Seems about right from what I have seen.Steve Campbell said:
When my brother broke his leg years ago, the doctors & physio said the ball park figure in this situation is 1 month recovery for every week of immobilisation in plaster. That's if it goes well and you follow rehab physio to get back in shape seriously. Seems about right from what I have seen.
Interesting, thanks. Following the time-off-weightlifting-for-a-holiday formula of holiday time away(weeks)x2 x2 = pre-holiday condition, it's similar.Gassing Station | Health Matters | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff