Lactic acid is crucial, essential, mandatory for maxing muscle growth?
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When you train hard and create microtears in your muscle fibers, you’ve created the primary stimulus for muscle hypertrophy.
Your body will repair the micro tears and ultimately create a bigger and stronger muscle.
How many times do you think you’ve heard this?
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Anyone that’s resistance-trained most likely has felt the pump.
Simply, it’s where the whole muscle temporarily increases in size due to an accumulation of fluid within it.
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When training under certain variables, lifting weights can temporarily increase the concentrations of a variety of systemic anabolic hormones, such as testosterone and growth hormone.
Based on my assessment of the literature, it seems performing exercises that involve a large amount of muscle mass, using moderate loads and rap ranges with a good number of sets and short rest intervals evokes the greatest temporary increases in anabolic hormones.
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In the bodybuilding world, it’s not uncommon to see a constant tension technique being used.
Typically, this is done by avoiding locking out the joints in an exercise, resulting in the muscle producing continuous tension for the full duration of a set.
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Up until recently, the scientific consensus was trending towards the idea that a full range of motion is better than a partial range of motion for muscle growth.
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The length-tension relationship demonstrates that the amount of force produced by sarcomeres (the contractile units of muscle) depends on its length.
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