Muscle+Growth

Whenever I go to the gym I've always wondered to myself, what is the cellular process of muscle growth? Well I finally found the answer to my question. So when you're working out you're constantly breaking down your muscle fibers and after your workout your body either repairs or replaces these damaged muscle fibers "through a cellular process where it fuses muscle fibers together to form new muscle protein strands or myofibrils. These repaired myofibrils increase in thickness and number to create hypertrophy (growth)." But how do you actually add muscle to your muscle cells? Well thats where sattelite cells come into place. Sattelite cells will act like stem cells for your muscles. When sattelite cells are activated they will help add more nuclie to the muscle cell directly contributing to the growth of muscle cells

 Jay Cutler, Kai Greene, and Phil Heath competing for Mr.Olympia.



The anatomy of muscle fibre.



Muscles contracting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPO78RxFBPw