Muscle Turns To Fat If You Stop Training!

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Body building Myth 1

Muscle turns to fat when you stop training!

First and foremost muscle and fat are two different things. One is metabolically active; the other is not (fat). Just as you can’t turn sand into gold, you cant turn fat into muscle? Remember that muscles grow because of the abnormal stress placed on it. This stress cannot be any stress, it has to be of sufficient intensity to cause the body to overcompensate and adapt with new muscular growth. Muscle is very expensive to maintain when it comes to expensing calories, your body will not keep muscle if it has no reason too. When you cease training, the body has no use to sustain any excess muscle mass (which is metabolically a active-therefore expends energy even at rest), so it reverts back to an ordinary less energy expensive size, which is always smaller. This is gain due to homeostasis-the body finds the best and cheapest way to expend the least amount of energy at rest—muscle is too expensive for it to maintain in calories.
The reason people think muscle turns to fat, is because of the loss of muscle tone –the muscles appear lax and soft.
Secondly when a person built sufficient muscle mass-he or she gets away with eating a lot of food (one of the benefits of body building) without much of it ever being deposited as fat-if you stop training and continue to eat the way you did when you had more muscles you will have excess calories that have to be deposited as fat. That subcutaneous fat covers the remaining muscle giving the once muscular person the false appearance of being fat.
Furthermore because you stop weight training your metabolism will slow down due to the loss of muscle –which is directly responsible for spiking up the metabolism. Thus the chance of you depositing fat becomes high. Increased metabolism allows you to eat without getting fat. The loss of muscle equates to a drop in your metabolism, so you are in effect burning less energy at rest.
In short muscle does not turn to fat! But you may wonder does that mean that I have to weight train on a daily basis to maintain my metabolism and increase my fatless? The answer is No! If you follow conventional weight training routines recommended by personal trainers be prepared to workout daily with no results to show. Mind and muscle program shows you how to take the weight off permanently without excessive workouts or aerobics and without daily exercises. One effective exercise workout performed once every three weeks is all you need to gain muscle and lose fat!