How Does Muscle Behave?

103 10
The first thing to understand about muscles is how it works.
The muscles that you will ideally be training are your skeletal muscles, which pull or push to produce the actions needed.
These muscles are contracted for both pulling and pushing motions by the smallest unit of a muscle, which contains your actins and myosins.
They slide along each other and is known as the sliding filament theory.
Muscles units are different from fat cells, they do not multiply.
They only grow bigger or smaller dictated by 2 major factors, training and genes.
Genes depict the distribution of the different types of muscles you have all over your body and their structure.
As someone looking to build more muscles and put on weight, the ideal muscles that you wish to train your type 2a muscles to become more used to behaving like a type 2b muscle.
This will mean that it will form a strong reliance on being fast and the least resistant against fatigue as it does not have a complex network of capillaries where it can get its nutrients from.
This means one thing in your exercise regime.
It must be short and intense rather than long with loads of long rest in between exercises.
This is because long rest beyond 2 minutes are a waste of time as your body refuels the energy that your fast twitch muscles needs with a minute or two.
Having fast twitch muscles also means that your repetition of exercise should be kept under 12 repetitions as an exercise high in repetition will cause your muscles to become fatigued and cause your type 2a muscles to adapt to become more like the type 1 slow twitch muscle types.
Muscle types also let you know how exactly to fuel your body.
With a small network of capillaries and more reliance on glycogen storage in your muscles, you need to fuel your body fast after workout and before a workout.
This means that you should fuel your body with whey before and after workouts to prevent the dreaded catabolism process before your workout and to feed the muscles during the short anabolic window after your workout.
Carbohydrates are also essential an hour before your workout to ensure you have enough energy to pull through the workout.
Muscle tears and require repair when it is torn.
This means that sleep and diet are the important building blocks to gain muscle mass.
Without enough sleep, the muscles will not be fully recovered and the same goes for it when it is not fueled properly with a well-thought out diet.
Source...
Subscribe to our newsletter
Sign up here to get the latest news, updates and special offers delivered directly to your inbox.
You can unsubscribe at any time

Leave A Reply

Your email address will not be published.