How To Build Muscle/Muscle Growth - Part 1

Have you ever wondered how our bodies grow muscle mass? Did you know that if you have a better understanding of how it happens you’ll have a better understanding of how to develop your strength training program to get the maximum benefit?

More often than not, we take our musculoskeletal system for granted. We expect that when we get out of bed in the morning, our legs will bear our weight and take us to the kitchen for breakfast. Our arms and hands will make the meal and our jaws will grind the food before we swallow it.

The muscles in our bodies are incredibly important because they are the biggest engine in the body that burns calories and keeps us moving. As a bodybuilder, or during strength training, we’re excited about working specific muscles to a point where their size and strength grows. We’d like show those large sized muscles off at the pool or to our friends. And the muscles we aim our efforts at are skeletal muscles.

These are the muscles we can see and which move our body from one place to another. This type of muscle is also called striated muscle because when doctors look at it under a microscope they see alternating areas of light and dark.

Resources:

Mens Health: How Does My Body Build Muscle

http://www.mh.co.za/food/how-does-my-body-build-muscle/

University of New Mexico: How Do Muscles Grow

http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/musclesgrowLK.html

ScienceDaily: Growing Strong Muscles without Working out

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120830130446.htm

ScienceDaily: Exercise Triggers Stem Cells in Muscle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120206143944.htm

Mueller Center: how Do your muscles grow

http://www.muellercenter.rpi.edu/musclegrowth.php

Washington University: Muscle Types and Sex Differences