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myth about muscle loss
so apparently some guy at the GNC told my boyfriend that you absolutely cannot lose muscle..that you can only have deflated muscle and lose mass to the muscle
i think that is bullshit but what do you think?
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that is bullshit. i've had three knee surgeries and i lost pretty much all of my muscle in my legs because i was on crutches for so long. although, when you do have surgery it basicly turns off your muscles. but i hope that helps.
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That guy is playing a game of semantics - manipulating words. You cannot lose A muscle except by having it taken out. However, your muscles themselves can lose bulk or cell populations and become smaller and weaker. Muscles are bundles of fibers and you can add or lose fibers through combinations of diet and exercise and disease processes.
Of course, we're talking skeletal muscle here, not smooth muscle or cardiac muscle, which you can't intentionally bulk up.
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i would say that since the dude works at the gnc, he should be right... but i don't think he is. you can lose muscle. people that have serious illnesses, like muscular dystrophy or even some forms of cancer, can lose muscle. so yeah, i agree with you.
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I used to work at the Vitamin Shoppe...we were always encouraged to say whatever we wanted as long as we sold as much as possible. I always told people the truth, but that's me. Most won't and even if they could- they don't know what the hell they are talking about a lot of the time.
Well now that's tricky because everybody has at least SOME muscle mass, but yes you can lose muscle mass. Use it or lose it basically. Muscles get bigger because: 1. You sufficiently broke down old muscle fiber and rebuilt new, stronger fibers and you got enough raw tools for muscle growth in your diet (protein mainly) and 2. Because you have drawn water into the muscle belly; which is what gives it that full look.
The guy at GNC is wrong-o.
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