[ELI5] If you get big strong muscles from microtears, then how come we can’t just put something in the body to rip it artificially
In: Biology
1) Its horrifically complicated: muscle growth is often simplified as muscle tearing, but there are hormonal, metabolic and mechanical steps mixed in. It’s not as simple as chop the muscles and wait for gainz. Otherwise you could just slap your biceps with a hammer and wait 🙂
2) There isn’t technology that can target specific muscle fibers on that level. Not only would you somehow have to reach the muscles themselves, you would have to find a way to tear them in such a way as to encourage regrowth (see 1) rather than simply cutting around.
3) Lifting weights is already a simple and effective way to grow muscle, seeing as that is how all of these processes evolved. There are ways to “cheat” (PED etc) but even those still require you to perform the exercise
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