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Muscles seem to shrink after a rest day? Understanding the true difference between perceived recovery and actual muscle loss

Muscles seem to shrink after a rest day? Understanding the true difference between perceived recovery and actual muscle loss

Feeling like your muscles "shrink" on rest days is a normal physiological phenomenon of reduced blood flow and changes in water retention, not actual muscle loss. True muscle growth occurs during recovery, so rest days are growth days, not stagnation days.
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