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Originally Posted by Gambatte Karate  As I said, they are semi-perminant Basicly, it takes a LONG time to gain, and a long time to loose them. If you lift for over a year and gain the benifits from lifting and then stop cold turkey, you will still have the benifits of the lifting for at least 6 months afterward. If you cut back on lifting a bit, you still keep the benifits. Semi-perminant. Once you achieve it, it doesn't take much to keep it. |
Incorrect, actually. Depending on the situation, you can lose muscle within weeks if you're not using it.
Try this for a test. Put one leg in a brace for two weeks and don't walk on it, but keep using the other one. Then measure the circumference of the two legs and notice the difference.