Does body muscle, waste away?

[Cat_with_no_eyes]

I have been thinking would muscle waste away if someone stopped doing weights?

For example if someone had quite a bit of muscle on their biceps from going to gym last year and they stopped going gym to do weights, would their muscle on their biceps lessen? My biceps muscles were really hard when I would tense them before but now they are not so much? Is it due to diet as I do not eat much meat or is it because of stopping the weights? I am talking in regard to females

 

[Spud Emperor]

Wow, got a lot to learn haven't we?

Yes, and I think you'll find the medical term is something more like degeneration.

 

[Cat_with_no_eyes]

i'm not the best of friends with google

 

[Fraggle Rocker]

i'm not the best of friends with google

Then make that friendship your top priority. If you're a scholar (and you had better be one because you're going to college, an institution dedicated to scholarship), Google is one of your top five resources. Doctors, scientists, professors, journalists, chefs, auto mechanics, students... everybody uses Google. Otherwise you're in the position of an American sixty years ago who was "not the best of friends" with the telephone.

And yes, you build up the mass of your muscles by exercising them, and when you stop they lose mass.

Professional dancers, who arguably work harder than any other human beings (they're like marathon runners who run a complete marathon every day), often have terrible heart problems when they retire. Their grueling work uses so much oxygen that the mass of their heart (which is nothing but a big muscle) expands enormously. When they stop, the muscle mass degenerates and they often end up with a lot of fat cells taking its place.

 

[Gremmie]

I just took your advice Fraggle...

I googled, google..

I think this caused a tear in the space-time continuum... I went back in time as well.

 

[Mr MacGillivray]

IQ drops also if you don't train your brain.

 

[Pinwheel]

Try Bing! its actually quite good.

 

[John99]

Muscle wasting away.

Not if normal daily movement (even a few feet) then i cant see how.

 

[krazedkat]

Google is one of your top five resources.

I disagree. Google should not be seen as a resource but a tool to find reliable resources, unless I am incorrect in my analysis. :shrug:

A little more on topic: The second law of thermodynamics.

 

[Mr MacGillivray]

I disagree. Google should not be seen as a resource but a tool to find reliable resources, unless I am incorrect in my analysis. :shrug:

A little more on topic: The second law of thermodynamics.

That seems rather off-topic actually.

A little more on topic: physiology.

 

[wynn]

I couldn't live-link - just look up pictures of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

 

[Spud Emperor]

Atrophy.That's the term. Only took me a week to think of it.

Well done Spud.

 

[Fraggle Rocker]

Muscle wasting away. Not if normal daily movement (even a few feet) then i cant see how.

Most of the cells in your body die and have to be replaced in a constant equilibrium. (Brain cells are the most notable exception.) Maintaining muscle tissue requires a lot of protein and other nutrients. (Since brain cells have to be kept alive rather than simply replacing them, maintaining the brain takes a giant portion of your nutritional intake, especially protein.) Your body's metabolism is well-enough regulated that it doesn't waste resources maintaining muscle tissue that isn't used. You don't need the leg muscle mass of a marathon runner in order to walk back and forth to the kitchen and bathroom. Your metabolism will not replace all those extra cells when they die, and the muscle mass will shrink to just exactly what you need for shuffling around the house in your slippers.

If you keep eating a marathon runner's diet, your body will turn the excess nutrition into fat instead of muscle. This is why retired ballet dancers often have fat-laced muscle tissue in their hearts.

 

[Gateacre50]

hello every one
For example if someone had quite a bit of muscle on their biceps from going to gym last year and they stopped going gym to do weights, would their muscle on their biceps lessen? My biceps muscles were really hard when I would tense them before but now they are not so much? Is it due to diet as I do not eat much meat or is it because of stopping the weights? I am talking in regard to females
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[Fraggle Rocker]

I have never personally cared about getting six pack abs but when I look around I see that most guys and gals really do care about having great six pack abs.

They will be so depressed in a few years when they find that they can't maintain that physique. It's better to use something a little more durable as your identity, like your intelligence, or better yet your accomplishments. Don't feel outclassed; you're right and they're wrong.

There is not anything better looking on a beach then a nice firm body oiled up with a tight midsection and ripped abs.

The best-looking thing on the beach is the waves and the water and the clouds and the sunshine and the birds and the seals. Isn't that why we go there? If you want to see muscular torsos it's an awful lot less driving to just go to the nearest fitness center. Especially if you live in Minnesota.