MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY

 MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY


Muscle hypertrophy, often known as muscle building, is the process of growing the size of the skeletal muscle's constituent cells. Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, which emphasises greater muscle glycogen storage, and myofibrillar hypertrophy, which emphasises greater myofibril size, both contribute to hypertrophy. It is the primary component of activities linked to bodybuilding.

Hypertrophy Stimulation

hypertrophy stimuli forces muscle to increase it's volume which in turn result in more strength while training and resist muscle fatigue while in anaerobic condition. There are multiple ways to achieve muscle hypertrophy, two major subcategories are:

Strength Training



Strength Training causes muscle and neural adaptation which increases capacity of muscles and body to lift heavier weights. after the initial moment of neural muscle adaptation muscle hypertrophy starts and muscle starts to grow.

Anaerobic Training



It is now believed that anaerobic training helps achieve muscle hypertrophy over a slight long term. anaerobic training not only works on muscle hypertrophy but also on strength and endurance of the body. short duration and high intensity anaerobic exercises are considered to be very effective.

Muscle Hypertrophy can be achieved by progressive overload on muscle, weights used while training needs to be progressively increased in order to achieve muscle growth. the short term swelling after training usually called as "Pump" is called transient Hypertrophy and should not be confused with muscle hypertrophy.

Factors affecting Hypertrophy

Biological factors such as DNA, Sex, Training Volume and diet can affect muscle hypertrophy.

Males have hormone called testosterone also called growth hormone or male hormone. It is majorly responsible for muscle growth in humans, during adolescents due to sudden increase in testosterone children body grow suddenly. similarly in males testosterone level is directly in relation with muscle growth as it is directly responsible for protein synthesis also in body.

Since, female have very negligible amount of testosterone in them it is comparatively hard for them to build same amount of muscle as of men.

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