Obesity in former athletes
Sometimes it happens that an athlete who has left sports forever for one reason or another suddenly begins to gain weight sharply. And it didn’t matter what he was doing: running, swimming or wrestling. Why is this happening? But the fact is that this athlete was predisposed from birth to be overweight. But during exercise, the “burning” reactions were more active and fat did not have time to accumulate. As soon as the training was stopped, the intensity of metabolic processes returned to normal.
The former athlete's movements became much less, but the habit of eating a lot and eating well remained the same. And in