Prof. BS: When you stop exercising, your muscles turn to fat
Amazing how many people still believe this complete lie - it doesn’t even have a shade of truth. The two main purposes of your fatty tissues are to serve as an energy source for the body and a storage devise when your body has an excess of calories - without fat, human life would be impossible. Muscle on the other hand is what the body uses to allow you to eat and move in the first place is ignoring one will always be at the expense of the other. Think of it this way, muscle is an engine and fat is the fuel. You may be looking down as asking yourself right now “if this is true, why do have an excess amount of fat and not muscle”? Well, muscle is a very expensive commodity - the bigger the engine, the more fuel it needs. Every pound of muscle that you have on your body burns an average of 60 calories per day. The primary focus of your body is to keep you alive long enough to reproduce, so it’s an incredibly fuel efficient system. This is why females generally have a higher percentage of fat then males because their body must sustain an infant from fertilization till it can fend for itself.
Your next question should be “why does my firm body seem flabby after a few months of getting off a great exercise routine?” You should now realize that it’s impossible for muscle to turn into fat anymore then its possible for the fuel you put into your car to magically transform into an engine. Well, you have two factors at work here, because muscle is an expensive tissue to maintain, after the body realizes its no longer needs as much as before, it gives the muscle less resources - so it “shrinks”. As a result the firmer and usually bigger muscle you use to have is now smaller. Now here is the kicker that people fail to realize, with your body having to maintain less muscle then before, its daily caloric requirements also decrease. So essentially the reason why most people get “fat” after a change in activity is because they are feeding their body the same amount of fuel but for a smaller engine. The body soaks it up and converts it to fat
