Losing muscle?

ydyms
ydyms Posts: 266 Member
edited 3:34AM in Goal: Maintaining Weight
If I stop exercising temporarily (2 months or so), will I lose muscle?

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  • ydyms
    ydyms Posts: 266 Member
    No one knows?
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Yes
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    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
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    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
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    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
    ydyms Posts: 266 Member
    I'm trying to add some squats, lunges and push-ups throughout the day instead of cardio. Will that help prevent muscle loss?
  • Clarewho
    Clarewho Posts: 494 Member
    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
    taco_inspector Posts: 7,223 Member
    edited September 2015
    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
    sweetochiken Posts: 51 Member
    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.
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