strength

[gambler40]

I took a month off from the gym because i bought a different house to paint and do some remodeling well started back to the gym on december first and my strength has decreased significantly in all aspects is this normal i have never been off from the gym for that long maybe a week at the most before just wandering if this is normal and how long will it take to get back what i lost its very discouraging

 

[builder]

yes that can be normal. your muscles will only stay as strong as your body needs them to. the good news is your strength will come back in time. i have found within a few weeks of training after a long break my strength came back pretty good. get to the gym!!

 

[tsimehc75]

Without knowing more about you, here is my opinion . . .

The short answer is the longer you have had a "strength"
the less you will lose over the course of time.

The long answer is the longer you maintain the muscular
tissue you developed (with or without the assistance of
AAS), the more likely your body is to keep it, to think of
it as "normal".

Here is another way to look at it; if you gained a 30lbs of
muscular tissue in the course of you first year training,
and then quit training altogether, you would probably lose
most if not all of your gains.

But if you maintained that 30lbs you gained for 5 -10 years
and then quit training, you would probably keep most if
not all of your gains gains.

Again, I think much of this comes down to establishing a
set-point, and the longer you are at that new set-point,
the more likely your body is to want to preserve it.

exactly..the more mature the muscle is the longer you will retain size and strength..if the muscle is relatively new,the gains will go away much faster..and thats from personal experience