A closer look
Muscle tissue cannot physically transform into body fat when you stop exercising because they are two fundamentally distinct biological structures operating completely independent of each other; when you inevitably abandon your overly ambitious New Year fitness resolution, your unused muscle fibers simply shrink through atrophy while your caloric surplus simultaneously builds entirely new layers of adipose tissue, and exercise physiologists are deeply exhausted by this persistent fitness myth, desperately trying to explain that hoping your biceps magically convert into belly fat is as biologically illiterate as expecting a neglected piece of expensive jewelry to slowly turn into a stale potato
