What happens to your body when you stop exercising
THE silly season is here and it's become way too easy to ditch the after-work gym session in favour of sunset cocktails. If you need some motivation in the lead up to the weekend, here it is. Ref. Source 1w
Did you say marathon? Impressive to reach that far but how does one maintain that level of fitness in order to avoid the drawbacks if you start to slow down or stop. From my little observation of a couole of people I know who were fit before is they gain a lot of weight rather than stabalize.
The easy saying is "Shut up and go through it", the psycological factor though it very important. For me training is/was more of an internal fuel or perception that externalized as a fit body.
When I stopped training I lost a lot of weight, mostly muscle weight and gained fat weight. But I did not got heavier. Just the muscle/fat ratio changed.
I wish I could exercise more. I used to be a gym buff or would run / swim several miles every week. Now, because of my situation, I can hardly even do a push up without incurring massive headaches so the most I can do is a bit on the exercise bike every now and again. The result is I am weaker and not as energetic as before.