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Missed some training? Slide your time off and see what you lose and how fast it comes back

Missed a few weeks of training and worried it's all gone? Mostly it isn't. Strength holds for about a month, muscle size fades more slowly still, and stamina is the first thing to slip.

Slide the weeks you've been off and see what's barely changed, what's slipping and what's clearly down, plus a rough estimate of how long it takes to get back and how to ease in. Rules of thumb, not medical advice.

Three bars showing strength, muscle size and stamina fading from green to amber to grey as weeks off increase, with a dashed marker at three weeks

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