Muscles are not fat

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Muscles are not fat
I’ve heard that muscle can turn into fat if I stop exercising. Is it really?
No. Your muscles can not turn into fat. It is physiologically impossible for the body. I do not know how the myth arose. Perhaps because many professional athletes takes a lot of weight after they stopped to train professionally. And it looks like it is simply that the muscles have been converted into fat, but it is not correct. There are several factors at play here.

Factor 1
Your muscles will be less if they are stimulated with exercise. That means you will lose muscle mass during the period where you can not coach.

Factor 2
If you’re used to eating much food, because you need energy to train, you must reverse also eat less food when you can not coach. And it may be difficult for some to adapt the appetite and the amount of food, which will result in an energy surplus which will be stored as fat.

Factor 3
This is connected somehow with factor 2 When you stop exercising, you burn not as many calories as you trained and you will therefore lie in an energy surplus, if you also eat just a little more than you burn. And again becomes excess energy stored in the body as fat.

Summary
Summarised, this means that if you stop exercising, your muscle mass less, you burn less energy and there is a risk that you eat more food than you burn. A combination of these three factors can make it “look like” the body to convert muscle to fat, but purely physiological, it is not, it happens.