How muscles grow?

Muscle hypertrophy is the quintessential goal of bodybuilding. But do you know how to grow your muscles?

The increase in the muscles tissue of your body depends on the stimuli applied. If you give them attention and work, you can see them increased and well defined, but if you forget them, it is certain that they tend to shrink, especially after a certain age.

We show you, briefly, how muscles grow, so you can understand the logic of the most practiced bodybuilding techniques. Know the process by which muscle hypertrophy occurs is an asset to the practitioner even to avoid errors.

Hypertrophy is the increase in cell volume, not referring only to the increase in volume of muscle tissue. So this particular increase is called muscle hypertrophy. This increase occurs as a response to a particular stimulus. The bodybuilding training represents one of those stimuli.

Although several variables can intervene in this process of volume increase, the damage that is inflicted to the muscles during training is one of the main stimuli to the growth of these tissues.

When these micro injuries are inflicted to the muscles, the body’s response is to try to repair them, starting the process of healing of muscle fibers that have been damaged. This is a cellular process in which the fibers fuse together to form longer filaments of protein or myofibrils. As these new organisms forming arise thicker and in greater numbers.

Muscle satellite cells when activated help to add more cores to each muscle cell and help muscle hypertrophy. The more cores a cell muscle have, the greater is the propensity to increase.

Muscle growth occurs when the speed of protein synthesis is higher than the speed which the fibers are damaged, and you already know that this muscle adaptation to stimuli occurs during the rest period and not while they’re in effort. That is why rest is crucial in muscle gains.