Comment by wisty
2 months ago
Losing glycogen stored in muscle is not a huge issue IMO, as it should come back fast. Stuff that's easy to gain is usually easy to lose and vice versa.
2 months ago
Losing glycogen stored in muscle is not a huge issue IMO, as it should come back fast. Stuff that's easy to gain is usually easy to lose and vice versa.
Uh, GP is talking about losing muscle itself, not the glycogen in muscle.
Well, these studies look at FFM, which does include your water weight and glycogen stores, so they do make up a portion of it.
The point is that there is a big difference between depleting the store of glycogen, which can reliably be refilled in about 2 hours and the body's disassembling half the muscle mass, which takes many months to build back up if you even can build it back up to the original mass (unlikely if you are old).
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