Is it true that once one stopped working out, muscles in the body turns to fat??

Answer 1

yep

Answer 2

This is just one of those exscuses for the lazy people. Muscle can lose tone and become flabby but it does not turn into fat. I think people get this impression possibly because if they were training hard and then stopped but carried on eating the same amount of food, at first they would not notice any weight gain. However as the unworked muscles gradually lose tone and start to burn less fuel (from food) fat will begin to be deposited, slowly at first but then much more quickly as the ratio of fat (which burns much less fuel) to muscle starts to change. You may then get the impression that your muscle had turned to fat.

Answer 3

No what you are thinking of is starvation mode and its affect on the body after dieting and working out stop.
One Expert states:

“The body responds by using its own reserves to provide energy, and these reserves are not just the body`s extra fat. Initially, glycogen stores are broken down for energy. Glycogen is the storage form of carbohydrate in our body. There is little glycogen available so this energy source is depleted during the first hours of starvation. When glycogen is used, water is released which is noticed as a drop in weight on the scale. These labile stores are quickly replenished when feeding is resumed which is noticed by an increase in weight.”


You might have heard a person tell you that they dieted for about 3 months and then after they got back into their regular eating pattern they gained it all back and more.


It is more dangerous when some one who is not very obese (BMI<30) goes into starvation mode because they are pulling energy and lean mass from organs, like the heart. When fat replaces the muscle mass that was lost during starvation, the metabolic rate (the number of calories needed to maintain the current weight) is decreased. The frustrated individual typically initiates another starvation-type diet only to continue this cycle.

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Answer 4

When people work out, they usually have a larger percentage of muscle mass to body weight and faster metabolisms. The faster metabolism allows them to taken in more calories without gaining weight.

When they stop working out, their muscles start to atrophy leading to a slower metabolism. So the body requires less calories, but if they don't adjust their diet with their new activity level those calories end up as fat.

Answer 5

No fat cannot be turned to muscle and muscle does not convert to fat. As a result of training muscle increases in size and tonicity by increasing the diameter of the blood vessels within the muscle. If you cease training the blood vessels return to their original size

Answer 6

No.

Your muscles will never "turn into" body fat, it's just that body fat may build around them. Your muscles are key elements to your body. Without them, you literally couldn't move any part of your body because it's your muscles that move everything.

Answer 7

no.

in order to gain body-builder type musculature you need to consume vast amounts of food and pump iron. if you stop pumping iron you now have a caloric input that you body can do nothing with but produce fat. the muscle tissue will also lose tone, further leading to a flabby look.

the correct way to do this is to slowly decrease exercise while cutting back on food intake.

Answer 8

of course not, muscles are from protein---> amino acids
fat is from lipids, they have different components. But if you stop working out, fat will build up because of the food you eat and less exercise and not because muscles magically turned to fat.

Answer 9

no , but you won't be working of the fat so extra body mass will turn to fat where as when you're working out it turns muscle.

Answer 10

Yes! It happened to my uncle he was a very active person who did body building and as soon as he stoped you don't want to see him, one big fat blob, no need to really stop i should say just keep exercising your bod that will keep the muscles were they should be and not let gravity take its course to pull you down

Answer 11

eventually... ya.


oh..... you meant literally...

no, that muscle will not go to fat. however, it will shrink and diminish leaving you with MORE fat, than if you had not gained so much muscle in the first place.

have you seen that photo of Gov. Arnold on the beach? Fat and wrinkely, when he defined body building. Thats pretty much the perfect example of what happens to a person's APPEARANCE after letting your muscles diminish.