The truth please!!!

CerebralCortex

Does fat turn to muscle. If it does wtf. It it doesn't well I thought as much
fat = fat and muscle = protein.

dudara

No.

as you put it, fat = fat and muscle = protein

RonanC

dudara wrote:

No.

as you put it, fat = fat and muscle = protein

Correction, muscle = ~25% protein

CerebralCortex

RonanC wrote:

Correction, muscle = ~25% protein

Interesting what's the other 75%.

RonanC

CerebralCortex wrote:

Interesting what's the other 75%.

Assumming we're talking skeletal muscle here:

25% is contractile muscle fibers (i.e. protein).

75% is the support system for the muscle fibers incl. water (70%). The rest is made up of glycogen, minerals, creatine phosphate, mitochondria, capillaries, and a small amount of fat in the form of intramuscular triglycerides, which together obviously only make up a small percentage of the total weight.

rasherboy

CerebralCortex wrote:

Does fat turn to muscle. If it does wtf. It it doesn't well I thought as much
fat = fat and muscle = protein.

no people just think that because when overweight people lose weight they can have very strong arms and legs etc...because when ever they lifted their arm for example they would of been lifting the equivelant to weights to a thin person so if the weight goes the muscle can stay
im not sure if i worded this well...but if not someone just correct it

CerebralCortex

rasherboy wrote:

no people just think that because when overweight people lose weight they can have very strong arms and legs etc...because when ever they lifted their arm for example they would of been lifting the equivelant to weights to a thin person so if the weight goes the muscle can stay
im not sure if i worded this well...but if not someone just correct it

It makes alot of sense.

Easygainer

This is from 30 top myths about bodybuilding, some interesting stuff for newbs that I'm sure some of us vets used to think back in the day. This is basically the reverse!

I'll post the link at the bottom...

27. If you stop working out, your muscle will turn into fat.

This is almost too preposterous to address. Muscle can no sooner turn to fat than gold can turn into lead. Muscle is made up of individual cells--living, 'breathing' cells that undergo all kinds of complex metabolic processes. Fat cells are simply storage packets of lipids. The possibility of one changing into another is alike to the football in your storage closet turning into your Uncle Sam.

If you stop working out, if you stop applying resistance to your muscles on a consistent basis, they will simply adapt to the new condition. In other words, they'll shrink. If the degree of inactivity or immobilization is severe, the muscles will shrink faster than the surrounding skin, and a temporary condition of loose skin might be experienced, but that too would remedy itself with time.



http://www.bodybuildingdungeon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1128

DrIndy

just as the man above says......