If I quit bodybuilding would I become twice fatter than I was before?
March 9th, 2010 | by admin |I want to start bodybuilding and somebody told me that if I stop that I will become very big in size infact much bigger than before. Is that true?
From your Av, I believe you are a woman. My advice will differ greatly for a woman than a man.
Women aren’t built to gain a lot of muscle. When we gain muscle, it is usually in very compact form, so we have increased muscle, but it isn’t bulky and pushing outward so much as tightening and bringing our fat and skin inward. Even the most extreme professional body building women who cut out most of their body fat don’t bulk up. They just get shaped and defined, and only with extreme fat loss, it shows the definition, but they aren’t all that bigger than your average woman.
The situation in which you might become big is not about muscles but about fat. If you work out, you can and will eat more calories. If you stop working out AND do not cut your calories down to a lower, pre-working out rate, you will gain fat. The obvious solution for this is that if you stop body building, you should cut your calories and keep doing cardio. If you do that right, you will not double in size when you quit. You might have a hard time finding a good equalibrium in the first few weeks, but you will find it, and can remain slim, just less cut.
One Response to “If I quit bodybuilding would I become twice fatter than I was before?”
By Meri on Mar 9, 2010 | Reply
From your Av, I believe you are a woman. My advice will differ greatly for a woman than a man.
Women aren’t built to gain a lot of muscle. When we gain muscle, it is usually in very compact form, so we have increased muscle, but it isn’t bulky and pushing outward so much as tightening and bringing our fat and skin inward. Even the most extreme professional body building women who cut out most of their body fat don’t bulk up. They just get shaped and defined, and only with extreme fat loss, it shows the definition, but they aren’t all that bigger than your average woman.
The situation in which you might become big is not about muscles but about fat. If you work out, you can and will eat more calories. If you stop working out AND do not cut your calories down to a lower, pre-working out rate, you will gain fat. The obvious solution for this is that if you stop body building, you should cut your calories and keep doing cardio. If you do that right, you will not double in size when you quit. You might have a hard time finding a good equalibrium in the first few weeks, but you will find it, and can remain slim, just less cut.
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