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Thread: How hard is it to actually lose muscle mass?

post 1681397073 04-24-2023, 05:22 AM
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How hard is it to actually lose muscle mass?

Let's say you built your physique naturally. how hard would it actually be to lose muscle mass you reckon?
post 1681397093 04-24-2023, 05:23 AM
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About a week
In for pope gains
post 1681397163 04-24-2023, 05:27 AM
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Originally Posted By Phuckphaces⏩
About a week
At 2 weeks off weights feel heavy and body goes flat.
At 1 month, strength has been compromised and muscle is dwindling.
At 2 months you are seeing the effects and will have to rely on muscle memory to return.
At 3 months you die
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post 1681397173 04-24-2023, 05:28 AM
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Not hard at all

It’s fuking bs

I’ll train for 6 months then lose it all in 6 weeks

I wish you could just build your ideal physique and then not workout and maintain it
post 1681397613 04-24-2023, 05:55 AM
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Depends on too many factors to say definitively genetics, diet, activity levels, hormones ect. I havent lifted in months and look pretty much the same. Not natty though and still keeping my cals up and Im active.
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post 1681398533 04-24-2023, 06:26 AM
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Originally Posted By Agent456⏩
Let's say you built your physique naturally. how hard would it actually be to lose muscle mass you reckon?
Its more difficult than people make out. I've been sick with long covid for a month and only back in the gym this week. Physique is a little less full and lifts are down maybe 10% but overall I feel I'll be back to normal in 2-3 weeks.
post 1681398853 04-24-2023, 06:34 AM
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Coming from someone who has been lifting since before most of you were born, I'll explain how muscle memory works for a natural who developed organic muscle.. I owned a mortgage company employing 80 people when the 2008 housing crash hit. My gym closed, break up, blah-blah-blah, etc. and I stopped working out entirely for almost 3 years. Within six months of starting again, I had regained 95% of my strength and all of those nagging injuries I could never shake previously went away.
6'5" 210 lbs, 10.9% body fat

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post 1681399043 04-24-2023, 06:37 AM
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It depends if you’re a hard gainer or not

People who have difficulty losing weight can keep muscle mass ALOT longer than people that have difficulty gaining weight
post 1681399383 04-24-2023, 06:44 AM
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Originally Posted By notbadnotbrad⏩
Not hard at all

It’s fuking bs

I’ll train for 6 months then lose it all in 6 weeks

I wish you could just build your ideal physique and then not workout and maintain it
Then everybody would be jacked and it wouldn't mean ****.
post 1681399743 04-24-2023, 06:50 AM
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I don't know, I don't really think I recall (though I could be wrong) losing significant mass when I went on deployment in the Navy (I lifted maybe twice the entire time) - or going on long stretches of barely working out (due to stupid long schedules). Lots of binge drinking + crap diet + lack of exercise certainly didn't do my physique any favors, but muscle wise I don't think it was significant.
post 1681399993 04-24-2023, 06:55 AM
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Depends on many factors,
If you take few months off from lifting weights but eat in a surplus probably wont lose much muscle and will probably get it all back as you gain your strenth back.

If you stop working out and dont bother eating much and well below maintaince then you may lose some muscle. But again its all to do with how quickly you get your strength back.
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