When people train with weights, and add some quality lean mass, are they really adding muscle or just making there muscle cells hold more energy(glycogen), ofcourse they add some muscle fibers and the like, but is it mostly just water + glycogen ?
then when you stop training for a while you end up looking flat, but then you start weight training again and eat a bodybuilder oriented diet, in you start to get this "muscle memory" effect in which you add all that size back in a short time than what it took you to get there years ago.
So is it possible that you never really lose muscle or gain much of it, but rather "program" your cells to hold more glycogen ?
And when you take steroids, they make you grow more fibers in the cells, but you get off of them and you end up looking flat again ( thisi what i have gathered from reading here), but then you start taking them again in unison with weght training and a bodybuilder style diet, and you add all this "size" in a short time....
Could it be possible that it's not actually ALL of the actual muscle fibers getting lost, but rather the body going back to homeo stasis and holding normal ammounts of glycogen + water in muscles ?
This was just something i thought about the past few days
