Intensity's MASSIVE In Muscle Growth

Many factors contribute to adaptations in muscle at a cellular level, but could the one thing you overlook make heaps of difference? Well, today we will address that and the answer to it is YES. See, just as any organism has the option to adapt or die, your muscles work in quite that way. This, in fact, is the reason the skinny little arms you once had turned into the boulders you brag about and flaunt today, adaptation. The harder you push yourself physically, the more precedence it takes in forming an adaptation because genetically our bodies see this hard task as a threat. The most simple way to explain it is adaptation counters threats. There are many factors that influence intensity and here are just a couple:

- Rest

- Volume

- Load

- # of sets

- Available Glycogen

So now putting it all together we will explain why INTENSITY=GAINS. We must look at what Increase in intensity does physically. To start, we would see an increase in blood demand to the working muscle (thought that during training, a muscle can receive up to four times the amount of blood it would ordinarily get). Working muscles need blood to supply them with oxygen and nutrients, and remove waste products (Mainly, lactic acid and carbon dioxide). This Demand of blood signifies a large stress put on the muscle cells in performing this task and creates an anabolic environment for growth to take place in. After you workout, your body repairs or replaces damaged muscle fibers through a cellular process where it fuses muscle fibers together to form new muscle protein strands or myofibrils. Muscle is actually added when satellite cells come in to do work by adding more nuclei to your muscle cells adding to myofibral growth. The greater the intensity, the more damage done, the greater the repairing effect. Creating stresses that exceed previous thresholds is key, and intensity is one way to get real results in less time!