Losing muscle?

ydyms

If I stop exercising temporarily (2 months or so), will I lose muscle?

ydyms

No one knows?

Liftng4Lis

Yes

sijomial

You will quickly start to lose strength (CNS switching off) and I was told (by a hospital physio and rehab specialist) that from 3 weeks onwards you will progressively lose muscle.

Use it or lose it.

IsaackGMOON

sijomial wrote: »

You will quickly start to lose strength (CNS switching off) and I was told (by a hospital physio and rehab specialist) that from 3 weeks onwards you will progressively lose muscle.

Use it or lose it.

fuaaaaarrrkkkk

sijomial

IsaackGMOON wrote: »

sijomial wrote: »

You will quickly start to lose strength (CNS switching off) and I was told (by a hospital physio and rehab specialist) that from 3 weeks onwards you will progressively lose muscle.

Use it or lose it.

fuaaaaarrrkkkk

Indeed.
I was in rehab following a major knee injury - within three weeks of being injured and unable to weight bear on the injured leg I couldn't even tense my quads and in ten weeks had lost a huge amount of quad circumference.

ydyms

I'm trying to add some squats, lunges and push-ups throughout the day instead of cardio. Will that help prevent muscle loss?

Clarewho

When I broke my ankle the docs said muscle wastage starts after 24 hrs. 2 yrs later when I had to return to get the plates removed from my leg this seemed correct. After 2 days bed-bound you could see the difference between my two calves

taco_inspector

ydyms wrote: »

I'm trying to add some squats, lunges and push-ups throughout the day instead of cardio. Will that help prevent muscle loss?

for the muscles loaded by these exercises, this should help to maintain some mass -- any thoughts about "pulling" exercises (dead-lift, bent-rows, pull-ups, etc). this bit posted above,

sijomial wrote: »

...Use it or lose it.

is good guidance, and if you're willing to adopt a few compound movements/exercises with adequate loading you can go along way toward muscle and strength preservation.

sweetochiken

Good question, right now I have a terrible cold that turned to an upper respiratory tract infections, and have zero energy to do much, ive have this for 2 weeks, im feeling weak, and muscleless. Ugh.... i just want this crap gone. So i dont loose what i worked so hard on.