If You Exercise on the Regular

It is much easier to recover from free time if you are someone who exercises five to six times a week, or if you have been exercising for a while.
In general, if you have been working several times a week for over a year, your muscle memory is solid. In fact, with that strong a habit of exercising, scientists are quite prepared to fall into the category of "athlete." And for athletes, their physical condition may deteriorate at different rates depending on whether you are looking at the strength or cardiovascular losses.strength loss
For most people, the loss of strength occurs after about two and a half to three weeks of inactivity, says Molly Galbraith a certified strength and conditioning specialist and co-founder of Girls Gone strong. But it depends on what the break is taken.
"If you are sick, your body is stressed, so it starts to lose strength after two to three weeks," she says. "If you are ill, especially if you are able to get moving and some light exercise, you may take three, four and even five weeks off without loss of significant resistance."
Science agrees. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise published a review of several studies on the subject was seen in runners, rowers and power athletes. For all these groups, the fibers of muscle strength seem not change even after one month of inactivity. But here's the problem: While overall strength does not change much during this period, specialized sport specific muscle fibers begin to change in just two weeks without a workout. For example, endurance athletes lose a significant amount of muscle fibers additional slow twitch who worked so hard to accumulate, and the same goes for power athletes and fast twitch muscle fibers hard-earned.
Basically, the body likes to hold on to power for as long as he can, but the skills that are highly specialized for certain sports will decrease faster. We are generalists, what can we say?Loss cardio
What about all those who love cardio out there who are more concerned about the strength of your heart and lungs? Unfortunately we lose this type of conditioning a little faster than they lose strength. A study of endurance cyclists found that four weeks of inactivity resulted in a decrease of 20 percent of their VO2 max, which measures the maximum capacity of a person to make, transport and use oxygen during exercise. The results were more or less confirmed by another study, which found that after 12 days of inactivity, the VO2 max decreased by seven percent and enzymes in the blood associated with endurance performance declined by 50 percent.
But keep your head up. While his cardiovascular conditioning not fall faster than its strength, it is easier to recover, says Galbraith. So back to that horse, cowboy.