eli5 What happens to muscles when you stop exercising and is it hard to get them back?

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What happens to your muscles when you stop exercising? Do they automatically start shrinking when after a week of not going to the gym? If muscles are formed when torn fibers heal, how is it possible that they shrink again? The tears still occurred so how can they just shrink? Also is it harder to get those muscles again after you quit going to the gym?

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It’s still hard but it’s much easier to get them back than it was the first time. Hard to gain hard to lose.

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