Title: Maintaining Body Composition Success - InBody USA
Headings: Maintaining Body Composition Success
Maintaining Body Composition Success
1. If you were overweight and lost a lot of body fat
Rebuilding your metabolism
The Cunningham Equation
370+ (21.6 x Lean Body Mass)
Maintaining healthy habits
2. If you were smaller and gaining size/muscle was your goal
Maintaining Muscle With Exercise
The importance of protein
Final thoughts
Regularly monitoring your body composition levels is the only way to know if your diet and exercise routine is working.

Content: Let’s explore what the science says about each of these. Maintaining Muscle With Exercise
After age 30, you start to lose as much as 3-5 percent of your body’s muscle mass every decade. Exercise—and particularly resistance training—can help you prevent muscle atrophy, especially when your nutrition is on point. Your exercise routine needs to remain consistent though in order to maintain body composition because Muscle strength begins to fade after just two weeks of inactivity. So how much exercise is enough to prevent muscle loss and maintain your gains? Currently Physical Activity Guidelines for American adults, published by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), center around three things: Avoiding inactivity. Doing aerobic activity (150 minutes/week of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity or 75 minutes/week of vigorous-intensity activity). Strengthening muscles (2 or more days per week). Although one small study found that for older men (70+) one day per week of resistance training was enough to maintain muscle mass, most people will have success following the current recommend guideline of at least 2 days of strength training per week if you want to prevent muscle loss and maintain body composition.