Muscle turns to fat?

[ranosb]

Muscle is damaged by exercise and rebuilds, increasing its size with heavier weights to accommodate the stress it was under, hence increasing weight over time with bodybuilding.
It can also shrink, atrophy, usually what you gained from bodybuilding from lack of exercise, use it or loose it!
Fat is also burned around muscle that is exercised as well, more so with high repetition cardio exercise, but fat could never turn into muscle...

[hawaiiancoconut]

Originally Posted by srjth

So someone who works out a lot a lot and is super muscular if they stopped working out they would get fat not just shrink and get thin?

Someone that is super muscular/fit just doesn't lose that muscle if that person stops working out, and it doesn't turn into fat ( it's physically impossible) that person can maintain a lean tone body with just diet . Of course, that persons muscles will not get any bigger, in fact, it will slowly get weaker and diminish (depending on his lifestyle)

A person only gets fat because that person eats more calories than he/she can burn in one day.

[stan4]

Originally Posted by srjth

I have heard it said many times that if not worked muscle will turn to fat. I'm wondering if this is literally true. Like if you have a bodybuilder with a lot of muscle who stops lifting weights, wouldn't their muscle just shrink instead of turn to fat? Like Mr.Universe would turn to Fat Albert if he stopped working out?

Yeah, there is no such thing and I wonder who perpetuates such nonsense.

[romehyper]

The short answer is “no.” Muscle and fat are two fundamentally different types of tissue, so muscle never degenerates into fat, and fat cannot be transformed into muscle.

[CSD610]

Originally Posted by srjth

I have heard it said many times that if not worked muscle will turn to fat. I'm wondering if this is literally true. Like if you have a bodybuilder with a lot of muscle who stops lifting weights, wouldn't their muscle just shrink instead of turn to fat? Like Mr.Universe would turn to Fat Albert if he stopped working out?

Take a look at Arnold Schwarzenegger, that is what happens when a body builder quits being a body builder.

[Adi from the Brunswicks]

Originally Posted by stan4

Yeah, there is no such thing and I wonder who perpetuates such nonsense.

If you eat more carbs than you can burn, then you will gain fat.

Its that simple to say, but hard to understand and monitor. I always end up consuming around 2500 calories but only lose like 870 calories during my 40 minute exercise. Yet, my weight has come down from before.

Living in a environment with cold winters (Upper 20's), moderate amount of fat is gained by my acclimatizing body, and I preserve some of it till winter is over to get through without shivering like crazy.

[CaptainNJ]

Originally Posted by MJ7

if your body starts to burn muscle (protein) as fuel you have some very very bad issues. typically the only way to reduce muscle mass is to consume very small portions of protein. this is what body builders will do once their careers are over.

what???? i don't understand how people say some of the things they say. if you have big muscles, you need to eat and exercise to maintain them. if you are a bodybuilder, you also need to continue supplementing with anabolic steroids to maintain your muscles. they don't stay as big as they are as long as you eat a lot of protein. so if you stop lifting weights, your muscles will shrink. if you stop lifting weights & maintain the same calories, you are probably going to see a muscle reduction and fat increase.