[bamboozled]

Each of your muscle fibres contain what is known as myonuclei. These are a structure within the muscle cell that act as the ‘brain’ of the cell – in this manner, they are what tells the muscle fibre to grow in response to strength training.

Interestingly, when you undergo a period of strength training, you see an increase in the number of myonuclei within your muscle fibres.

And this increase is permanent.

[1] https://foreverfitscience.com/exercise-science/is-muscle-mem...

I had a child, took a year off lifting, or basically doing anything but walking, I didn't lose much mass or strength and it hasn't taken me long to get back where I was, I'm pretty happy with the current design, maybe you should train more so you actually have some muscle in case you do need to spend a few weeks in bed?