Originally Posted by CDSmith

That's a common myth of those who are uneducated on the subject. The truth is that muscle does not "turn to fat"... a muscle cell is different from a fat cell, one can no more turn into the other than a turtle can turn into a volkswagen. The muscle cell might atrophy though, due to inactivity later in life which can eventually appear to be flabby, but muscle cells always remain muscle cells.

You can't transform a fat cell into muscle either. You excercise away the fat and develop the muscle. That's how it works.