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To start off with, muscle can not turn to fat. What happens in that case, when people stop exercising or cut it down, they continue to eat the same amount of food rather then cutting that down too.

So basically their muscle tone disappears while the fat stores increase due to the excess calories not being burnt away. To prevent it, lower your caloric intake while decreasing the exercise.


To loose muscle bulk, I have a problem with that too. One thing that I have found works to a degree is stretching - so whether it is normal stretching or doing yoga - and done regularly, like after every exercise session for around 20 min holding each stretch for a minimum of 30 seconds.

Another that I have found works, is cross training.

With doing only karate or only running, my muscles were getting bigger and bigger. Once I started doing a variety of things (at the moment I am doing karate, cycling and gymnastics), my muscles are not as bulky as they usually would be because I'm not using the one group of muscles over and over and only working on them.


Hope that helps