Sagar Tewatia – Mumbai Uncensored, 3rd March 2022
When someone enters a gym and ask big boys the secret of their perfect body, they throw the most random statements: –
“In order to gain muscles, you have to lift heavy weights.”
“In order to reduce fat, you have to do cardio empty stomach” and so on.
Is it reasonable to start following these random statements without knowing the functionality of your body?
No, because you know that your body can be random to a random person, but to you, it’s everything.
Often, it has been observed that people who follow these statements blindly, without knowing the logical reason and the entire process, stop doing workouts very soon as they don’t get results.
Now, coming to the fact, yes, at some point it’s true that lifting heavy weights helps in muscle gaining as it is the physiology of muscle growth, but this is just half-truth, there is an entire process which takes many things, the workout is one of the parts of it.
How exactly do muscles grow?
Our muscles grow in response to the stress we put in the form of a load on them, and after that, they experience microdamage/tears.
In return, the body generates an inflammatory signal that damage has been caused at a particular place. Then, the body increases the activity of our immune system to repair those micro-tears, and when this process gets completed, our muscle fibres grow more substantial and more extensive.
So, it’s easy to understand that muscle size increases when a person continually challenges the muscles to deal with higher levels of resistance or weight.
However, putting more and more stress on the muscle fibres will break the muscles, which is half of the process, and the other half is repairing muscles, which will take place by giving required nutrition and providing enough rest to the body.
Takeaway
We have to put a sufficient amount of stress on the muscles to recover and experience the positive impact of the training. If we put too much pressure and won’t give enough nutrition and time to recover, we’ll not see the positive transformations.
If we are bringing our muscles to failure on every set and doing too much
amount of volume every day without giving adequate rest, we won’t be able to develop our muscles and improve strength.
That’s how our muscles grow.
