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didn't train for 4 weeks have a question for you guys.

  • 13-01-2011 12:49PM
    #1
    endurodave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭


    Just a little question for you guys, I didn't train for a month give or take a few days not by choice i was sick but since i stopped i dropped about 6lbs or 2.5kg over this period would this be lost muscle or both fat and muscle ? as i have been training hard over the last 4 months and am down from 115kg 4 months ago to 102kg now


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  • #2
    cc87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭cc87


    Mainly fat but if you were sick theres a chance of it being from dehydration and poor nutrition.

    Little or no muscle loss would occur in such a short space of time unless you were bed ridden and barely moved.


  • #3
    endurodave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭endurodave


    cheers for the reply hit the gym there, give it a week before i get back to normal.


  • #4
    Diceicle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭Diceicle


    Sorry for hijacking the thread but theres no point me starting a new thread for my (semi-related) question;

    I too have been off training for around a month. I'm back in the gym a few days and am dis-heartened, though not entirely surprised, to see a big decrease in my lifting / repping ability.
    Is there a routine I can do in order to get myself back on track or is it just a case of nose to the grind to get myself back to where I was?


  • #5
    Gillo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭Gillo


    I missed three or four weeks so when I started back last week stopes what I was lifting by about five per cent, still found it a bit tough but I also wasn't taking any supplements, a few sessions later and I'm grand. From the supplement point if view I used to take a stack of NO-explode, Nitrix & Cellmass, so not taking them probably caused a bigger loss in strenght than the actual missing the gym.


  • #6
    Elohim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭Elohim


    This happened to me too. Gym was closed over the xmas and didn't do much exercise at all. Kept eating well, but lost about 4-5kg unintentionally really. Hopefully it was just fat.
    So now 185cm, 69kg, not exactly where I want to be!

    Went back to the gym this week and couldn't get near the routine I was used to before the xmas. Hopefully things will pick up soon though.


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