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Originally Posted by TheDoc
When the muscle relaxes fat builds..
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No. When muscles stop being used for a long time they atrophy, and yes fat can build. But muscles cells do not transform into fat cells, it's a common misnomer as I said.
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
thus fat grows between the muscle fibers more, making them sag due to the extra weight and making it much harder to take off later.
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Yes and no. Yes, fat can and often does accumulate around the muscles as time of inactivity goes by and the muscles atrophy whichs causes them to have that saggy look, again over time. But it isn't because the person did some bodybuilding in the past, it's due to INACTIVITY, as in suddenly adopting a sedentary lifestyle where before they were physically active. Don't blame bodybuilding, blame the person's decision to stop exercising.
Also, it's not harder to take that fat off later. Fact is once you've had muscle tone and lost it most people find that it comes back faster once they start exercising again. If it took you two years to get fit in the first place, then quit exercising for a year it won't take you another two years to get fit again, for example.
One point that I think you're trying to make in this thread that I agree with is that one shouldn't just do resistance weight training (ie: bodybuilding) and nothing more. I agree with that, one does need to also do some aerobic activity. Cardio-vascular fitness is important too, and just straight bodybuilding doesn't give you enough of the lung capacitgy or type of CV stamina that distance runners or cyclists have.