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How Do Muscles Grow?
You may be wondering how do muscles grow? This article explains the science behind building muscle and how your efforts in the gym actually bring about new muscle growth.
Knowing how to grow muscle is the easy part, but actually gaining a significant amount of muscle mass is no walk in the park as it requires a lot of hard work in the gym, and most importantly, in the kitchen. But anyway, let's begin to learn how muscles work!
The Muscle Growth Process Explained
Is it possible to build a house without knowing anything about carpentry? Of course not.
Knowledge is more powerful than any weapon you could ever have, and to accomplish anything satisfactorily, you need to have at least some basic know-how of the task at hand.
Your new mantra should be "Work smart, not hard".
Yet, even as thousands of weight training devotees flock to gyms all over the country everyday, trying to gain muscle and burn fat, they all ignore this simple mantra.
For example, just ask any of them the question: "How do muscles grow?" and I guarantee that their response will be a blank stare or a confused reaction of the sort.
Bodybuilding, like medicine, is a science.
You don't need to complete a Ph.D. in biology to build large, powerful muscles, but a basic idea of the muscle building process will help you to efficiently meet your goals a lot faster.
The process of actual muscle growth is a complex one and involves a large number of biological steps. The good thing is, you don't need to know it all to build some serious muscle. All you need to understand is the basic steps behind it all.
So, how do muscles grow? Let's take a look at the science behind the art. Let us find out.
As you train in the gym, you must understand that every single action and process within your body has a single purpose: to keep you alive and healthy.
When it comes to Mother Nature we humans have just one purpose: to pass on our DNA and procreate. We are the result of millions of years of evolution, and the human body has evolved to create natural alarm systems that sound in response to stress, to be able to ensure our survival.
For instance, you feel hungry if you don't eat, thirsty if you don't drink, feel pain when something hurts you, and you tan when you're exposed to the sun.
The muscle building process is the same in nature. In scientific terms, the muscle building process is called "hypertrophy".
When you visit the gym, you put your muscles under stress by lifting weights. Your muscles come closer to failure with every repetition that you do, which means at one point, they will "give out" and you will not be able to do any more reps, no matter how hard you push yourself.
As they come towards failure, these reps create deeper and deeper inroads through the muscle fiber, resulting in what we call "micro-tears".
Basically, what you are doing is breaking down your muscle fibers by causing actual damage to the muscle. Your body reacts to this damage by repairing the muscles.
The muscle repair process is the key part in building muscle. Your body begins repairing muscle tissue when you stop putting stress on your muscles, in other words after stopping your workout.
The thing is, your body sees the damage to your muscles as a threat to its survival, so it will rebuild the damaged muscle tissue bigger and stronger than before to protect against future threats.
So this increased muscle size and strength is a natural evolutionary response to the micro-tears that your muscles have suffered due to the heavy weight training you performed. It's as simple as that.
How Do Muscles Grow? Hard Work!
To build large amounts of muscle onto your frame you must understand this basic concept of how muscles work. Since your body must perceive the weights you lift in the gym as a threat to its survival, you must realize that you need to train hard and with heavy weights for the most muscle building to occur.
Now you understand the basics of muscle growth, you can continue to pack on pounds and pounds of muscle mass. The moral of the story is, go hard or go home!
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