{"id":3955,"date":"2015-03-23T07:07:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T12:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2015-03-23T07:07:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T12:07:21","slug":"what-happens-when-you-stop-exercising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/?p=3955","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When You Stop Exercising?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Men&#8217;s Journal:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ever wonder what would happen if you stopped working out? A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25003773\" target=\"_blank\" data-v9y=\"1\" data-rapid_p=\"53\" data-ylk=\"elm:itm;elmt:link;t1:a2;t2:article;t3:body;t8:7f853928-58ad-3344-a65a-36551f4ec52c;t9:18;itc:0\">new study<\/a>\u00a0on identical twins published in the journal\u00a0Medicine &amp; Science in Sports &amp; Exercise\u00a0explores exactly that,\u00a0and the results are dramatic. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Quitting your fitness routine can trigger body and brain changes that mess with your cardio fitness and strength and set you up for chronic conditions such as diabetes, says Jordan Metzl, M.D., sports medicine physician and author of\u00a0The Exercise Cure.\u00a0(Metzl was not part of the study.) And considering that the less active twins in the study had only recently become couch potatoes, these changes can sneak up on you a lot sooner than you\u2019d think. \u201cMuscles begin to atrophy after just a few days of being sedentary,\u201d says Metzl. \u201cOrgan damage and changes in overall functioning will follow.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/health\/this-is-what-happens-when-you-stop-exercising-113355357618.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"iLikeThis-3955\" class=\"iLikeThis\"><span class=\"counter\">0 <a onclick=\"likeThis(3955);\">I did this!<\/a><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Men&#8217;s Journal: Ever wonder what would happen if you stopped working out? A\u00a0new study\u00a0on identical twins published in the journal\u00a0Medicine &amp; Science in Sports &amp; Exercise\u00a0explores exactly that,\u00a0and the results are dramatic. &#8230; Quitting your fitness routine can trigger body and brain changes that mess with your cardio fitness and strength and set you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}