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Do my muscles turn

into fat if I don’t exercise them after a

while?

NO!

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Fat cells and muscles cells are completely different types of cells and can not change from one to the other.

When you pump iron you are building up your muscles cells and at the same time thinning out

your fat cells.

When you stop strength training your muscle cells start to thin out. And if you continue to eat as if

you are still working out the fat cells become bloated and start to expand.

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There are three different kinds of muscle cells first there are smooth muscle cells second there are cardiac muscle cells then there are skeletal muscle cells. The skeletal muscle cells are the one you are working on expanding.

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For more great information check out this web site: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/05/01/1613539.htm

Or this paper from the New England Journal of Medicine in 1992,"Discrepancy Between Self-Reported and Actual Caloric Intake and Exercise in Obese Patients". By . Dr. S. W. Lichtman