posted Thu, 05/11/2017 - 12:56
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muscle wasting....
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Some of you might have read my other post about the hospital stay. Final tally of weight loss is 40lbs! I'm really freaking out.
Dumb questions...what actually happened to my muscle? Does it just shrink back, or are the actual muscle cells gone for good? I'm just wondering if getting my build back is going to be helped by muscle memory, or am I literally starting over?
This has really messed me up mentally. Dr said I could go to gym next week to go through motion on machines, if I promise not to move real weight.
Younger lifters might not understand, but bodybuilding has been a part of my life for over 20 years.
Thanks.
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AnonGood to hear your back into it and healthy brother, slay the day
Honestly the best thing you could do is ..start all over start at the basics and move up.. start with great nutrition to get your body healthy and balanced again.. start lifting and ease into it , your body will tell you when your ready for more . Last thing you want to do is hurt yourself again, you will get it back just don't rush it as with everything a great foundation is the building blocks of everything
You'll bounce right back man. Just ease into it. Save the cycle for when you're recovered. It gets frustrating as hell, but don't do more damage. Re-establish your base then have at it. It'll be a bad memory soon enough.
Yep like everyone else says, muscle memory is real. It's a really good thing for us with injurys or like me who get lazy and fat then bounce right back
Appreciate all the input so far. Thing that screwed me the most is I was already pretty lean when I got sick. Would have been better if I was burning up fat laying in the hospital instead of muscle.
Yes muscle memory is real. I stopped working out for about 5 months almost 2 years ago. Shriveled up but came back looking better than I ever did before.
RustyhookerI was pushing huge numbers for my size. Broke both elbows and it went to the shitter. I couldn't hold a cup of coffee due to area of the breaks. Started over literally with those dusty girl weights at the gym that noone uses. Ya know...the 5pounders...
Muscle memory yes. Started like stated and used reps over pounds. Took a year to get 75% of strength back. And a year past that to hit my pr .
Its a mindfuck for sure!! Ignore that liar...the mirror and its ahole brother the scale. Its slow progress or you decide to just throw in the towel. It will come back!!!
Ah, yes, the mirror. "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the swolest one of all?"
Except my mirror tells the truth. "Not you brah. Not mirin' brah." I oughta smash that smartass mirror.
How'd you break both elbows?
RustyhookerTeaching the youngster skins how the moshpit goes. Lol!! Come flying around and landed and elbows with concrete floor. #oldfartsnotallowedtoplay
Clothes are the best tattletale. If waist loosens and the 2xxl gets shoulder tight....keep pumpin! Lol
Okay, now I got to know. Who was playing?
RustyhookerAgnostic Front.
Ah yes. Pits that would draw both the punk and metal crowd would always be the most violent. Slayer, Extreme Noise Terror, Discharge, Pig Destroyer, Leftover Crack, Naplalm Death… a little more intense than a Ted Nugent NRA meeting. Er, I mean show. That sucks. I assumed it was at least lifting related. Freak accidents suck.
Theres a name I havent heard in quite awhile. I took a trip to the pit at an outdoorn festival 2 summers ago. Could definitely hold my own but somehow it didnt seem as easy as when I was 17.....
RustyhookerTry a hardcore show in poland. The pit is like the old real pit back in the 90's. The small dudes were 6-2 and 240. Those were the midgets. Craziest but coolest shit ever. I just drank pollock vodka and watched. Haha
I would get ragdolled in the pit when I was 17. Now, about 60 lbs later, not so much.
I ruptured my right bicep last year. Muscle memory is definitely real because my right bicep took a long time and alot of work but its almost back to par with the left. I thought it was going to take alot longer considering that when I came out of the no mobility sling my bicep was smaller than my forearm.
You will get it back it will take some work but its not like you have never put in work.
You will be good wish you the best brother
I really appreciate the input. They told me at four weeks I can lift some weight, but by 6 weeks I can go 100%. They don't want me to blow the incision and create a hernia.
backonroidsThat fair enough always gives you time to concentrate on your diet , plenty carbs ,protein and H20 to start filling them muscles back up .
Muscle cells are multinucleated. The nuclei do not undergo apoptosis during prolonged periods of inactivity, but the volume of the nuclei and cells shrink. But the cells remain. "Muscle memory" is an oversimplification, but in the sense that we use it, it's very real and supported by science. You are not starting from scratch.
Anabolic steroids increase muscle cell nuclei, by the way, which is why anyone using them while training and eating properly should have no trouble maintaining an amount of size well beyond natural limits while off. Even if off permanently, for that matter.
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backonroidsNo muscle memory is a real thing , I've had it happen to me and after like 12 weeks right back to where I was . You see loads of pro bodybuilers quit turn into a mess then come back within months looking the same as before . Plus I believe if your facias have been stretched it's easier to grow .
Chin up - get in the gym and smash it
Best proof of muscle memory out there for the world to see: Arnold before he got in shape for Terminator 3 and after. Crazy short period of time.
backonroidsDefo man ! It's mental isn't it ! I'm fascinated by what our body's and minds can do ! Crazzzzyy