What would happen if you stopped lifting weights?

[jdm4eva]

Look at Arnold Schwarzenegger these days!

Yeah he don't look that great anymore....

[Crush505]

Due to injuries and surgeries and other crap in my life I quit lifting for about 5 years. I slowly returned to a regular skinny dweeb. I kept some good muscle tone in most areas but put on a bit a fat around the midsection. In 2008 I started lifting again. Not too serious at first but the old familiar lifting bug bit me again, pretty hard. I've put on a lot of the size back but now train more bodybuilding style and not for powerlifting. muscle memory? Not sure but the gains are coming back fairly fast. Not quite as strong in some lifts but stronger in others. But size is returning really decent for a guy in his 50's. Feels great but takes a lot longer for the soreness to leave! When I first started lifting I weighed 135 and got up to 205 in a few years. After I quit I dropped down to 165 in a couple of years. After surgeries and being sick I dropped to about 156. I've slowly built back up. I'd like to stay about 190- 195. I don't really want to get over 200 again.

[clive]

Bearing in mind I was a quite smallish built guy before training, I think I would probably shrink quite a lot...........I would absolutely hate that!
Luckily my training is so imbedded into my lifestyle I would find it near on impossible to stop now.

[addictionO6]

if you had to stop lifting make sure you still eat right. I lost almost all my gainz in a span of 2 months of not lifting, eating and sleeping right. And when I came back it took more than 2 months to get dem gainz back so yeah..

[Tmax55]

I did stop lifting for over three years. I did cardio and caloric deficit for the first year so I didn't turn into a giant blob, but I lost about 45pounds of muscle and still added fat after I stopped doing cardio and stopped caring about what I ate.

I've been back since September of 2013. I was 206 @ 24% fat (and weak as hell) then...I've recovered to roughly 215 @16% (and slightly stronger).

My advice - don't stop.

[mikieson]

You would go find a hobby. Get out. Enjoy the day.

[DuracellBunny]

If you stop lifting weights the terrorists win.

[Jtbny]

I'd probably just troll the forums here, make numerous pity threads and lash out on anyone who used the words "kids" in my threads. I'd then brag to others here about how I stopped working out and spit in the face anyone who ever offered kind words.

That's just me though...ymmv.

[grubman]

When I'm lifting I'm very serious, but I had 2 eight year layoffs since I was 16. Both times my appetite dropped and my weight dropped to a lean 145 for years...I assume that is my bodies "genetic natural" weight. It took about a year for the weight to drop, but I always looked muscular, if small.

Both times I "came back" I gained the weight back in a few months...but not the measurements. I look more solid and mature now, but my arms (for instance) remain almost 2 inches smaller than the days of my prime. My legs were always hard to grow, and they have never come back from muscle memory like my upper body, its like starting all over again.

[DocHoss]

I hope never to find out.


It is such a struggle to put on even the slightest bit of muscle that the very thought of stopping gives me the heebie-jeebies.

[The3Bar]

I had to stop three weeks ago and still have another two before I can lift again. I've been expecting the hearse to come knock on my door at any time.

I immediately cut my calories way down - 2100. Hard as hell at first, but I'm glad I did. I didn't want to put on any fat during this pause. But I also know I'll have lost a little in strength in some areas, but not very much most likely. Still hard, though.

[Old-Time-Lifter]

if you had to stop lifting make sure you still eat right. I lost almost all my gainz in a span of 2 months of not lifting, eating and sleeping right. And when I came back it took more than 2 months to get dem gainz back so yeah..

Okay, I know you just had to bump this thread to prove there was one more inane thread than the 'what did you bench' thread going now.

Congrats to you addiction06 you found the needle in the haystack.

If you didn't bump it for that reason though then you deserved to be negg'ed deep into the red....

[Geneius365]

If i stopped lifting i would probably go blind from being a Master Baiter and i would spend time on bb.com and bump a 4 year old thread.

[SteveWright1]

sorry wrong thread

I thought this was the one about 'What would happen if you stop shop lifting"

and I was looking for ideas in the run up to holiday season

[DuracellBunny]

sorry wrong thread

I thought this was the one about 'What would happen if you stop shop lifting"

and I was looking for ideas in the run up to holiday season

Same thing as if you stop lifting wieghts; you pay for it

[BrotherWolf]

you'd have a lot of extra free time

[Simpske]

You'll become happier for a few weeks followed by a period of depression. Then recurring depression will occur when you come back and troll the OV35 forums and get banned.

[davidolson22]

This thread just makes me wonder whatever happened to FLEX.

[phamine]

Yeah he don't look that great anymore....

http://www.expendablespremiere.com/n...ion-highlights

He looks decent to me.

[bradandblake]

Your body wants to be efficient. So whatever you are doing, its going to adapt to it...usually.

[ysobella554]

Hiii, i started doing weights in order to just tone my shoulder muscles ( I only wanted to tone them slightly, nothing bulky) However, I didnt realise that machines that I was using would curve my shoulders at the bottom of my neck and as a female i really dont think it looks nice at all. How many months do you reckon it will take till my shoulders basically go back to being straight so i can start the working on them again, but doing different exericses this time?