Does Muscle Turn Into Fat When You Stop Working Out?
Q: Does muscle turn into fat when you stop working out? I notice that some jacked people become, let’s say, “sloppy” when they quit lifting weights. So it must be true because, shiiiiiiiiiitttttttt, my personal observation is as scientific as it gets!
A: Does muscle turn into fat?
Wow, what an original question here!
This is such an original question that I’ve never been asked before that you’re going to have to give me a second or two to gather my thoughts before coming up with an answer.
*1 nanosecond later*
Hmmmmmm…why do formerly jacked people not look anything like once jacked people once they stop doing the things that helped them get jacked?
Well, you’re 100 percent correct that muscle, or skeletal tissue, morphs into the completely different material colloquially known as fat, or the connective tissue called
“adipose” by fitness elitists such as myself.
I mean, people with muscles are superhuman and shit, so why would detrained individuals who happen to maintain the caloric intake of their once active selves gain body fat like mere mortals do when they eat waaaayyyyy more food than they should and fail to do the requisite amount of exercise to burn off the excess calories?
And, I mean, muscles hypertrophy (i.e. grow larger) when you lift weights, so why would they atrophy (i.e. get smaller) when you stop lifting weights and no longer give the body a reason to keep the muscle?
Nope, people going from fit to fat certainly can’t be because of a change in body composition that has to do with their fat cells expanding thanks to the same or increased levels of food and their muscle cells shrinking from disuse. It makes much more sense to me that the human body does some abracadabra shit and turns muscle into fat much like Jesus turned water into the completely different substance of wine.
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