atrophy

A question I am often asked is what happens to your muscles when you stop working out for a long period of time? The answer depends on quite a few things such as age, your current training ability your current level of strength, and what was the reason you stopped training was. If you stopped from a lack of motivation then you can regain your strength much faster than if it was from a serious injury or disease that left you immobilized. In a perfect world you will never stop strength training for it is so hard to rebuild than it is to maintain muscles but sometimes things happen that are out of your control that force you to stop. This is why I always say one of the most important things you can ever do for your health is remain consistent with strength training for a long time to build up a high reserve for the speed at which you can lose muscle is astonishingly fast. It is quite unfair really, for it can take months to build muscle but sometimes as little as 10 days to lose significant strength as I will show you. Females, and the older population will lose muscle even faster and the implications to the health of their body is significant once they have lost too much.

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