Why do I say that aerobic exercise will not lead to muscle loss? First of all, you should understand that no matter how you exercise, your muscles will gain muscle, maintain muscle, or lose muscle.
But aerobic exercise won't cause your muscle loss at all. You can safely run and swim boldly. What is the chief culprit of your muscle loss?
It's a training substitute, yes, it's the real killer who caused your muscle loss. For example, if you practice your arms three times a week, your arms will be stimulated by training and cause muscle hypertrophy. Then you think that if I change to aerobics, you can take a day off to practice your arms.
Then you will lose your muscles at this time. Why? Not because you did aerobic exercise, but because you reduced the amount of training. You used to do three days of intensive arm training. This situation will certainly stimulate your muscles and make you gain muscle.
But you do one less day of arm training and do aerobic exercise instead. Then in this case, it is not enough for the arm to increase muscle strength, so you will have muscle loss.
So you don't have to worry that aerobic activities such as running will lead to your muscle loss. Aerobic exercise is just an extra amount of training. As long as your training intensity is not reduced, there is no need to worry.
Many people feel less saturated after extra aerobic exercise. Is this the loss of our muscles?
That's not right either. This is because you sweat a lot after doing aerobic exercise, and the sugar in your muscles will decrease accordingly, so your muscles will not feel so saturated. This is a very normal phenomenon. You will feel full after hydrating, not that your muscles are gone, which you need to understand.
Therefore, it is not new to say that aerobic exercise can lead to muscle loss for rumors on the Internet and various statements in life. We can find in our life that even people who exercise for a long time will gradually reduce their muscle mass after not doing too much exciting exercise.
Otherwise, why does our fitness have a platform period? It's not that you do aerobic or other things, but that your stimulation to muscles is reduced, and your stimulation to muscles is not enough, which will certainly limit your muscle growth.
Muscle is adaptable, and it can only grow if you constantly increase the stimulation. Have you cracked this myth?