How To Prevent Muscle Loss After You Stop Weight Training

How do I prevent muscle loss after I stop weight training?

The amount of muscle that you had gained during the time you were weight lifting or doing resistance training certainly will diminish over time if you stop doing that same activity. It needs that stimulus and also actually needs the breakdown of the muscle so that it can then be repaired the next night that you sleep and be built back up again with the aid of proper nutrition. If you do not stimulate the muscle to break it down so it will be re-built, gradually, over time, it will reduce in size, strength and performance. What's interesting is that the neurological pathways you developed during the resistance training will still exist. They may be dormant to some extent but the initial pathways that you created and enhanced are still there, and that's why you've heard the term muscle memory. It comes back even quicker the second time.