Recognizing Muscle Loss and its Effects on Strength and Performance

When experiencing muscle loss, the impact on strength and performance is profound and obvious. Loss of muscle is noticeable during activities such as weightlifting and bodybuilding, as the same weight becomes significantly harder to lift. Small changes in performance do not necessarily indicate muscle loss, and excessive concern about it can be neurotic. Muscle loss is typically obvious and if one has to ask whether they have lost muscle, the answer is usually no, unless one is consciously denying the obvious decline in strength and performance.