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Body Building Muscle Growth

Hey guys, just stopped by to explain something about musclegrowth, how it works and how to target it from different angles.The word "hypertrophy" is thrown around a bit when it comes tomuscles and growth.Hypertrophy is what we use to describe any increase in the volumeof an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its component cells.That can be anything from ventricular hypertrophy (increase in thesize of the ventricles of the heart due to the effects of exercise ordue to high blood pressure) to hypertrophy of the breasts(gigantomastia).Muscle hypertrophy is the increase in the size of a muscle.The two types of muscle hypertrophy are sarcoplasmic andmyofibrillar. Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy is the increase in thesarcoplasmic fluid in a muscle.Sarcoplasmic fluid is the fluid of muscle tissue that houses unusuallylarge amounts of

glycosomes

(granules of storedglycogen) andsignificant amounts of myoglobin, anoxygenbinding protein. This type of hypertrophy is accompanied by only small increases instrength. This is characteristic of the muscles of bodybuilders.Myofibrillar hypertrophy is an increase in the size of a musclethrough an increase in the myofibril. Myofibrils are tiny filamentsfound on the inside of a muscle fibre at microscopic level.Myofibrillar hypertrophy is typical of the muscles of a weightlifterand are therefore accompanied by massive strength increases.When training, the idea is to target both of these forms of hypertrophy. Larger muscles mean bigger engines and fastermetabolisms. This means more fat loss as well!We do this by constantly changing up our rep ranges. To targetsarcoplasmic hypertrophy we train in around the 8-12 rep range. Totarget the myofibrils, we train in the 4-8 rep range. Like any form of Copyright 2010:-http://personaltraininggeelong.net