Thread: muscle breakdown

HUH????

how do you know that your midsection was the last place you added muscle? this question is kind of weird.

I agree... strange questions and umm to be quite honest, I have never heard tell of such a thing.

i attribute all of my running to the fact that i don't have very large legs, but it also has to do with the fact that when legs day come up i don't have as much strength as i would if i wasn't running

the midsection thing was an example, all im saying is if fat is burned off in the order it was put on ( like say you last added fat in your stomach, so consequently when you try and lose weight, the fat that would burned off first would be the fat from you belly) shouldn't the same hold true for muscle, that what was last to be put on is the 1st to be broken down and used ( like saying you have gotten bigger arms after a few months, but now you decide to do lots of cardio, the 1st place the muscle would be broken down and used is in the arms, b/c it was the last place muscle was put on) OR would it determine was exercise you were doing, like in running, maybe the leg muscles would be broken down 1st b/c they are what are being used primarily.....do you understand?i hope you do. thanks

i don't think so.

I understand what you are saying. I guess as an exaggerated example, imagine that you are trying to hammer your arms and over a couple months or whatever gain an inch or so. So you go on a cut and will obviously lose some muscle. Your question is basically will that muscle loss come from your arms.

I would say most likely NOT. I would think on a cut you would do some form of cardio such as running, which would utilize your leg muscles. I would imagine that if this were the case, your legs would be where the majority of the muscle came from since you would prolly be overtraining them and they wouldn't get a chance to "rebuild" after workouts.

Not really sure, just kinda thinking it through.

yeah, I agree with Dale, however I do find that excessive running seems to shrink the legs.