I’ve wondered this for so long but don’t know how to articulate it well and also feel like it’s potentially a very dumb question but thought this would be a good place to ask it.
Essentially- while I’m working out, are the muscles building themselves during that time or is it a situation where you’d be able to see the effects afterwards like in the coming days? I hope that makes sense.
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Exercise is, in a nutshell, the process of literally tearing yourself down to rebuild yourself back up.
As you work out, your muscles are being destroyed.
That’s how it’s supposed to work though. They’re built this way so your body can replace the broken weaker, smaller fibres in your muscles with better, stronger, and thicker fibres.
Due to the injury you’re sustaining + the actual activity you’re doing which requires more oxygen = more blood in muscles to feed the activity.
More blood swells the muscles hence the “pump” you get during the routine.
Afterwards your muscles will be sore because they are now effectively an internal wound of sorts.
Again, designed for this.
They then begin rebuilding within an hour or so of stopping your session at the gym or whatever. Just as any wound would.
The human body is an amazing system of countless smaller systems acting in sync to effectively create one combined unit.
Hope this helps.
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