What was the longest time you took a break from lifting weights? did you get fat and lose all muscle you've made?

what was the longest time you took a break from lifting weights? did you get fat and lose all muscle you've made?

4 weeks i felt weak af after that but i think i havnt lost that much muscle

20 years. Yes, I got fat as fatass. Back in the gym fixing it now.

Took a break for 4 months, ate healthy, actually lost a ton of fat, because not feeling hungry.
Went back to lifting, in about a month almost back to my old weights.
It's not that bad really, but pretty hard mentally to feel weak.

4 years

Since I started 3 years ago - a month straight. Or 3 months if you want to count working out every other week due to being constantly sick.

i stopped lifting after i finished my cut, at the start of the summer
thing is i fucked up my cut and lost a good amount of muscle mass, but at least i had visible abs
anyway, i stopped lifting for 2 months, gained a bit of fat and i looked skinny fat
i started lifting again and i'm stronger than ever, gonna cut again in spring , careful this time

Oh, I forgot to add - I lost some size and strength especially after the 3 months period. But I didn't get fat. It was something like 10 kilos on max for every lift

About a month (first back injury, then I was sick). Felt terrible mentally during first 2 weeks but then it went away and stopped giving a fuck. I though I would perish into nothing but it wasn't that bad, I was eating a lot to keep the mass, gained a little fat tho. Lost a few kg on all lifts and a bit of muscle mass.

First 22 years of my life.
I'm just wasted potential now brehs, trying to catch up.

I had been training for 3.5 years but then,8 months ago, i had to stop. I got some weird injury due to which i get headache after any kind of weight training. I also have a very mild tinnitus.
I tried antibiotics and had a otologist visit but no one has an idea of what could be the cause.

Anyway i lost 6 kg (74 -> 68 as a 165cm manlet) but i still look muscular. I believe of those 6 kgs ~4 are fat and ~2 muscle/water.

As someone else said it's easier to eat less while not training as you dont feel as hungry. Also, i've kept an eye on my protein intake to make sure i always have some aa's just in case of need

2 days. lost 20 years worth of gains and am now obese. stay safe bruhs

do you have any pics I'm curious how did you look at 74kg

i guess you can count this:
didnt train chest or shoulders for 1 month, didnt lose strength or muscle.
my ohp was just the same, my bench just the same, only thing different was my lateral delts looked a little bigger, dunno if it was just me

Mental health crashed. Didn't eat for days on end. If I did it was just ramen. Drank 5'days out of the week. No lifting just vidya and movies in bed.Did this for 1 month and a bit. Went from 118kg bench to not even being able to unrack and lift my warmup. I now haven't touched a drink in close to 70 days. Slowly getting back to lifting but finding the motivation to get back to where I was is hard.

8 years. Don't EVER repeat my mistake.

>twf trying to regain lost gains at 30 years old...

that's rough. hope you're doing better now

6 months and I actually lost weight. Didn't care about nutrition or anything.

I got a job in a warehouse that I still have and stopped for about 3 months because I thought it'd be impossible to work in a warehouse and also lift, but I did it anyways after some time.

after lifting for 2 years stopped for 2 months
lost probably like 80% of gains made
Although they came back after like 4 months of intense lifting after I came back to it

about 7 months...gained like 20lbs of fat, didn't lose too much muscle. my lifts were pretty much the same when i came back.

that seems a bit much to lose in just 2 months

I used to do chest 2 or 3 times a week [but other areas were neglected], was able to bench 225*12, but I was fat. Stopped lifting or barely lifted for maybe 9 months but lost fat from diet and jogging.

Then I struggled to get 185*5, worked my way back up to 185*10 easily / 225*4, then kinda stopped lifting again. Started over again, now kinda struggling to get 185*6-8.

No excuses, just lazy. I think I am the body type that is easy to gain muscle, because I can always get my strength back relatively quickly even tho I if a low calorie diet. If I stick with it I will be benching 2pl8*10-12 again in 2-4 months

*even if i have a low cal diet

Here, have a transformation gif.

Bad lighting, no pump, no training for 8 months. Shit i wish i could train, i'm actually shrinking quite fast

in the process of coming back from a two year break from exercise in general

1st year of break started working in a supermarket while in colllege aswell so spent all my spare time socialising
2nd year got a gf had a great time with her but ended up becoming lazy af would only spend time with her whenever i had spare time watching movies nd shit

anyways fast forward to now quit the supermarket job 3 months ago and broke up with gf 1.5months ago, spent most of past month being a sad cunt but about 2 weeks ago realised how fat i had become. literally no strength left can barely bench 70lbs, also no ability to do cardio

anyways back on the train again disappointed that i made the mistake of hopping off completely but it wont happen again, admittedly a lot of catching up to do

Ha.

25.

>got food poisoning
>was not feeling 100% and my stomach hurt for nearly two weeks afterwards
>bout a week of slacking off afterwards because I wasn't feeling up to lifting because I was out of the game
>just did 40 minutes yesterday

Whew.

I wouldn't say I lost muscle or gained weight, but I could feel myself starting to get loose.

I haven't lifted in four months, I've gained 20 pounds but I tried benching at a friend's house the other day and I'm stronger than before. wat

about a year and ongoing.

a year ago I went from a physical labor job to a desk job and thought to myself

>oh man, i'm working a deskjob now, surely I'll work and then gym afterwards since I will have been sitting all day

boy was I fucking wrong, this job is somehow more exhausting then my old physical labor job. I don't even fucking get how.

9 months while traveling. Lost everything and had to start over. Progress was a lot faster than the first time though

Well met a girl and I didn't go to the gym as often as I did before I met her. And yeah I got sorta fat do to the increased alcohol consumption when I wouldn hang out with her and The decreased gym time.. then things fell through with her and I became a sad depressed Cunt and continued drinking. Still said depressed cunt cause of other issues but no longer drink a bottle every night so things are looking up. Sooo idk training and nutrition wasn't on point for 6 or so months. Currently back on the ball and down 15 pounds almost to where I looked before I met her
>tfw hung out with her a week ago and she was poking my pecs telling me how buff I looked

For you are right women are gains goblins

3 years, lost all my gains and went back to auschwitz mode

went from 85kg to 71kg

Got diagnosed with mononucleosis 11/23, first sign of symptoms was 11/17 (that was just muscle ache and trouble sleeping) but it rapidly escalated to the massively swollen tonsils so I could barely eat 500 calories a day. I'm back on normal food and I'm not perpetually tired, just get hit by random waves in the middle of the day where I crash. Anyone know the protocol on getting back into it from mono? 4 weeks off and sort of taper into it? 8 weeks and just go for it?

That's because when doing physical labor you were keeping yourself fit with that. Now you sit around all day and don't work out either, quietly sinking into fatmode with no energy and no will to lift. You're going to have one hell of a mental barrier to cross once you decide to get back into it. Good luck man.

6 month. Lost a lot of strength and muscle mass. Got everything back within 2 month

I lifted for two years, bulking from 58kg to 90kg in the process (6'1 so I was a skeleton). Fell into depression and stopped going for 14 months, just started again two weeks ago. I've lost about 30% of my strength on my compounds, my traps/shoulders/chest have all shrunk and I've developed a beer gut. My biceps, triceps, and calves did not diminish at all however.

I'm cutting first to get rid of this beer gut so I won't be getting my strength back anytime soon.

I joined a gym one week ago, I hadn't lifted seriously since 2000. Too busy running my company....and yes I got fat and damn near developed alcoholism.

3 weeks due to back injury, this was my first full week back in the gym. Lost 3 lbs of seemingly all fat and look way more aesthetic after getting back. Didn't lose much strength. Did fall into a fit of depression for about a week though.

3 years.
I got lean and fit to enlist for military service, ranked High enough for marine, too low for army. Decided to study and try again. Met my ex during that time, felt like i wasted 3 years with her. Lost muscle, got fat, was flat broke half the time, worst decision. Broke up, got back into being fit, took a year to myself, ran, lifted, made ends meet. But its been eating me inside to try again. So im studying to retry for the military.

If I don't lift for 3 days I feel depressed or disgusted with myself
One week makes me feel like the lazy WoW couch potato I was
I visit my gf in the weekend only so i couldnt workout during the weekends
Finaly got her into lifting and were gonna workout this friday
>mfw

who is the qt?

plz

Ha.

30.

SImilar story to you my friends.

Fell in to a major depression for about 12 months and gave up lifting all together. I was a 6'3 skellington starting out but made my way all the way to 105kg(230lbs), but fell all the way down to 80kg(175lbs) during the depression. Got back in to the groove habit wise last month, and gains are coming swiftly.

You can do it. You just cant quit on yourself. You're going to make it.

I bulged a 2 disc in my lower back so I've been not working out and only stretching for 2 months I hate it..

5 days second day back on had a shit ton of family events and shit to go to really fucked my shit up back on track more strict than ever tho and actually pr'd yesterday

first 29 years of my life :(

So I lifted for about 4 years when I first started as a freshman in college. Got fairly strong, had my routine and diet researched and organized, but was always too much of a poorfag to get the proper macros, proteins, and supps I needed to really fill out. Then I graduated, got a job, which made me move cities and kept me really busy. I basically didn't lift for about 2 and a half years. I did get pretty fat (in relation to my 10-12% I usually carried when lifting), but I didn't completely lose mass (definition: yes).

I just started back up in July with the same researched routine and diet I ended with. My lifts were way down from what I ended with when I first started back up and my endurance was abysmal. There were workouts where I could only finish half of my routine because I felt like I was going to vomit. But after about a month and a half, my endurance came back and from there I was able to progress strength wise super-quick. I've now surpassed where I ended two-and-a-half years ago and keep progressing week to week. It does help I have the money now to properly supplement.

I always thought muscle memory was a broscience meme but I honestly don't think it is.

one month when one of my discs was slightly wedging out and causes really painful back spasms. It wasn't right back at all my old weights, but after 2-3 weeks I was back to my older self