Muscle Growth!

OK, so here's the lowdown on how to build muscle! Let's face it, muscle looks good, is good for your body, and it boost your metabolism! I really can't think of any negative things about gaining muscle! However, in order to build muscle its essential to understand why muscles grow! Its important to view muscle growth from a physiological side rather than the egotistical side. This analysis is important for a few reasons; understanding the physiological side of the body means the person is more inclined to make the right scientific decisions and not be influenced by some of the crazy trends that come and go. It also helps increase motivation, a key requirement for muscle growth.

Here's why muscle grows..

Muscle growth will not occur just because you do a few curls or tons of curls for that matter. You can eat protein til you are blue in the face, but in order to put on muscle, you have to give muscle a reason to grow.

Muscle growth occurs for a physiological reason. That reason is the same for all bodily changes and functions, its adapts for survival purposes.

When a muscle cell is stressed intensely it causes damage to its internal elements, protein filaments shatter and glycogen storage depletes rapidly. If the cell experiences this level of stress on a regular basis its ability to survive would be compromised. When the stress stops (between workouts) the cell has the time to recuperate, replace and fix the cell back to pre-stressed state. After this recovery the cell will overcompensate for the stress by adding more strength, more protein filaments, glycogen stores and increased enzymes for energy production. The idea is if this stress is encountered again in the near future it has a better chance of survival because there are now more elements to be broken down.

To build muscle fast we manipulate this principle by introducing a new level of stress and cause a further overcompensation process to make cells continuously add strength and this causes muscle growth.

Muscle growth is an adaptive response so train scientifically to continue the muscle building process!