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How muscles are formed?

England7
England7
Posts: 8
Joined: 2002/06/20
Singapore
2002/07/20, 10:31 PM
Do any one know how muscles are formed. Are they formed from fats?
Philia2
Philia2
Posts: 4,078
Joined: 2001/10/19
France
2002/07/21, 01:45 AM
Nope hypertrophy, or growing muscle fibres (I'll not talk about multiplying the fibres since that's often not the case).
When you weight train, you're actually hurting yourself since you're braking down and tearing apart your muscle fibres.
Okey those fibres get a little bit mad and they say "hmmm this bugger (YOU!) did this to me, now I just have to get stronger and bigger (the muscle) so it wont happen again!!!"
Well here it goes. Now it's just up to you to give your muscles the needed bricks (energy, proteins etc) to build with.

Your fat cells have absolutely nothing to do with it (except from giving you some energy...) That's the same reason that you'll never be able to transform muscles to fat if you stop weight training.

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England7
England7
Posts: 8
Joined: 2002/06/20
Singapore
2002/07/21, 05:47 AM
thank you now i understand, the muscle breaks down and rebuild into a bigger and stronger muscle. Thank alot
Mathiau
Mathiau
Posts: 72
Joined: 2002/07/20
Costa Rica
2002/07/21, 07:37 PM
yeppers

that is why u are often soar after a good work out :) it is your muslces telling u to let them recover! and give them a break!

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