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ALL ABOARD THE GAINS TRAIN

Oddly enough your body doesn’t really want to add muscle. It’s metabolically expensive and it’s costly to build and maintain. This means you probably won’t add much of it unless your body deems it to be absolutely necessary. The good news is that you can make your body deem it absolutely necessary by imposing on it enough physical stress (training) so that it is forced to adapt.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

When it comes to building muscle (hypertrophy), we could go really deep and talk about motor units, protein synthesis, mitochondria, signalling pathways etc…,

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