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Originally Posted by chucktown
Er...this is extremely misleading. When you exert a muscle in any way, you are actually making tiny tears in the fabric of your muscles. I don't care if it's done by working out in the gym or running or lifting a television. Any time you can feel that muscle "burn" it's tearing down, ever-so-slightly. The food you eat and water you drink then work to "rebuild" those torn fibers while you sleep. Which is why protein is so important, not to mention amino acids (located in the meat you eat) and sleep is so important, because as someone said before, your muscles grow while you rest, not in the gym.
So while you may not be "growing new cells," you are actually volumizing and growing your exisiting muscle cells as your body deems necessary to meet the new demands you are putting on them by working out.
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hahaha... sorry dude, but that made me laugh out so hard i almost had tears in my eyes. i didn't knew that this 70s rumor still makes it way round
but all in all, it is really not funny, since it is almost dangerous if you actually tell people nonsense like that.
first of all, torn cells and fibers don't "rebuild" themselves. instead, scar tissue is built to repair those damage. scar tissue however has nothing to do with "rebuilt muscle cells" but consists of inflexible cells that have nothing to do with muscle cells.
what you describe would require a quantum leap in stem cell research, as only certain body aparts, like the liver e.g., are currently able to heal themselves by building the exact celltype. muscles are not.
so, muscle aches are nothing to be proud of. muscle aches are a sign of having trained the wrong way. hurting muscles -> destroyed muscle cells -> wrong training.
yeah, i know you will come up with some very different explanation why hurting muscles are a good thing, but you don't need to. i have tried too often and am not discussing these topics online any more
i shouldn't have done here either
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Originally Posted by chucktown
Bodybuilding is a weird "sport" (if you can actually call it that) and most are juicers, whether they admit to it or not. They're just smart enough to cut themselves off the 'roids in time to have their systems clean by the time the competitions start testing them for it.
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full ack. now i am confused why you have come up with the first post as i don't think that we share such a different point of view