If you take a break from the gym you may lose muscle and gain fat, but it isn’t as simple as one turning into the other ‘This is not true,” says Prof Leigh Breen, a specialist in muscle physiology at the University of Leicester. But it’s a statement he hears a lot, particularly from people who h...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/12/is-it-true-muscle-turns-into-fat-stop-working-out)