ReimTime said:
Muscle you gain cannot be lost; I don't think atrophy would have been that significant after a week, but you never know. If it's about size, do bodyweight exercises like push ups during the day to get your pump up until you can go to the gym |
Well, that's sorta true, but sorta not true. While muscle cells themselves aren't lost (unless you go like a month without food or some extreme shit), your muscles can still lose mass if you don't train regularly. However training up muscle cells that are already there is a lot easier than forming new muscle cells, which is why it's a lot easier to get *back* to shape than it is to *get* to shape.
Same is true for fat cells btw, fat cells don't dissapear even though you lose fat, they just get smaller (That's a very non-scientific explanation, but it works).
