Fitness
It’s more than you might think.
At that point, youll breeze through your jogs, slay your12-3-30, and lift 20-pound dumbbells with ease.
Will you lose all your progress and land back at square one?
How Many Days Of Exercise Can You Miss?
Will doing so sabotage your fitness game, though?
Whenever you take an extended workout break, your muscles will start aprocess called muscle atrophy.
That said, how much your muscles atrophy will depend on your fitness level.
If you were brand new to working out, however, the process will happen faster.
How Long Does It Take To Rebuild Muscle?
Some people may need three months while others may need 12, he tells Bustle.
That said: Your muscles will always return to their strongest point if you work them properly.
Its also totally possible that youll bounce back super fast once you start your routine again.
Life is busy and you cant expect to stick with your routine perfectly all the time.
After all, any movement is better than none.
Studies referenced:
Amaro-Gahete, FJ.
(2010).Skeletal muscle loss: cachexia, sarcopenia, and inactivity.
Am J Clin Nutr.
Gundersen, K. (2016).Muscle memory and a new cellular model for muscle atrophy and hypertrophy.
(2013).Skeletal muscle atrophy during short-term disuse: implications for age-related sarcopenia.
(2019)An Overview of Current Physical Activity Recommendations in Primary Care.
Korean J Fam Med.
