You realize, don’t you, that there is no medical evidence for what you’re saying? There’s no biochemical pathway by which muscles turn into fat deposits.
I was an athlete when I was a young woman, and I looked like the girls in these pictures. When I stopped training the curves came back, but my muscles did not “turn to flab.” I got married. I had babies. I nursed them. Got back in shape afterward, though not like my youthful competitive tone. Like my fellow female athletes, I’m straight, feminine, and I love pretty clothes.
I don’t understand what motivates comments like this. Do you want American women to be soft, pudgy, and weak? Are we supposed to just do needlepoint and run the vacuum all day? Maybe later. But when one is young, strong, and talented, why not compete with the rest of the world?
“... Do you want American women to be soft, pudgy, and weak?”
We didn’t go to a finishing school, ottbmare... so we are less than perfectly female. “Are we suppose to just do needlepoint and run the vacuum all day?”
Why yes... in pearls. We need to do all that in pearls. LOL!
Awesome post - thanks for sharing that!
Perhaps you are correct and I am totally wrong. But with that said, Do I believe the evidence before my lying eyes?
One of the more glaring examples before the public is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Compare recent pictures to his Movie era pictures. I’ve seen this several times in my life.
As I was told many years ago, to keep in good shape means you must continue to be active, don’t become a couch potato and stay away from desk jobs that tie you to that desk. (That’s last one is a personal one from me.)
All I have said, and perhaps not in a good way, is that an athlete who has trained themselves to a peak where they have little body fat has to watch themselves after they stop that training regimen so that they don’t go to fat.
So does muscle turn to fat? Probably not, but it does lose it’s tone if not maintained. Change the diet much and fat can and does form if the calories are not burned off.
If you find fault with that, so be it. My own experience in life has shown that to be true.