muscle turn to fat?

[Bobby5]

Lets say you workout hard and get huge and say you break your arm or something and cant lift. Will all that muscle you gained turn to fat?

 

[Guinness5.0]

No. It turns into cartilage.

 

[musketeer]

Yeah, and it works the other way too:

The most muscular men in the world get as fat as they can, and then lift weights and the fat just turns to muscle.

 

[cuthroat]

Yeah, and it works the other way too:

The most muscular men in the world get as fat as they can, and then lift weights and the fat just turns to muscle.

You are being sarcastic right? There is no way that muscle turns to fat ...Muscle mass and fat are two different animals: Muscle is active tissue that burns calories around the clock even as you sleep, kind of like an engine running in neutral. When you move around, you burn more calories, just like a car will consume more gas the faster you go. Fat, on the other hand, is just a storage of excess energy. It does nothing but sit there with its sole goal in life to be a spare tire around your waist until you put in the effort to burn it off.

Bodyfat is not particularly useful except as padding against bumps, as insulation to preserve warmth, and as a convenient surface where you can balance a can of beer while watching the game. You need some bodyfat to stay healthy of course, but unless you're walking around with razor-sharp abs and sunken, fat-depleted cheeks year-round, you probably have nothing to fear.

 

[putrefied_dead]

they are being sarcastic. muscle <---/---> fat

 

[Protobuilder]

LoL. Bobby5 -- calories make you fat. If you "eat big to get big" but then stop lifting/exercising but keep "eating big" . . . you'll get big all right! But you'll get fat. If you stop lifting/exercising, reduce your calories accordingly.

 

[djeclipse]

Yeah, and it works the other way too:

The most muscular men in the world get as fat as they can, and then lift weights and the fat just turns to muscle.

Cool, I can't wait till all that fat around my stomach area turns into rock hard abs!

 

[DZLS]

No. It turns into cartilage.

 

[javaguru]

Lets say you workout hard and get huge and say you break your arm or something and cant lift. Will all that muscle you gained turn to fat?

No, you lose the muscle. Fat is only gained when your calories exceed the demand. I lost 1/4 of my left leg size after my acl surgery and didn't gain any fat. I never wore my brace after that and the muscle loss slowed to a crawl; Imobilization will cause you to lose muscle very rapidly.

 

[blut wump]

You are being sarcastic right? There is no way that muscle turns to fat ...Muscle mass and fat are two different animals: Muscle is active tissue that burns calories around the clock even as you sleep, kind of like an engine running in neutral. When you move around, you burn more calories, just like a car will consume more gas the faster you go. Fat, on the other hand, is just a storage of excess energy. It does nothing but sit there with its sole goal in life to be a spare tire around your waist until you put in the effort to burn it off.

Bodyfat is not particularly useful except as padding against bumps, as insulation to preserve warmth, and as a convenient surface where you can balance a can of beer while watching the game. You need some bodyfat to stay healthy of course, but unless you're walking around with razor-sharp abs and sunken, fat-depleted cheeks year-round, you probably have nothing to fear.

Not quite so. The inter-scapular brown adipose tissue is one of the body's major sources of heat.

When you stop exercising a muscle it atrophies. The reason that most big guys get particularly fat on cessation of exercise is that they don't reduce their eating to compensate. Initially they can get away with it but as the muscles waste back to 'normal' proportions their BMR falls. As the BMR falls their caloric excess rises. As the caloric excess rises they fatten.