Today’s episode is inspired by a recent Instagram post from Aaron comparing two recent DEXA scans. On the surface, it looks like muscle mass was lost…but was that truly the case? Can hypertrophy training mechanism temporarily shift the measurable amount of lean body mass?

In this episode we introduce and cover the two types of muscle hypertrophy, myofibrillar and sarcoplasmic. As well as the three main mechanisms of action that drive muscle hypertrophy.

  

Three Mechanisms of Muscle Hypertrophy:

1. Mechanical Tension: Heavy weights, in a controlled manner, through a full range of motion

2. Metabolic Stress: short overload; higher reps, metabolites in muscle, supersets etc…

3. Muscle Damage: lengthened overload = damage but is that a good thing?

 

Two Types of Muscle Hypertrophy:

1. Myofibrillar Hypertrophy.
Building bigger/stronger muscle fibers

2. Sarcoplasmic Hypertrophy.
Accumulating more fluid in the muscles (glycogen; pump) *what you lose when taking time off, not actual muscle.   

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