I absolutely love strength training and even running but I can’t understand how exercise is supposed to help inflammation when you literally are creating microtears to build muscle. In breaking down muscle wouldn’t you have more inflammation in your body? Can someone explain this to me?
In: Biology
Acute (temp) inflammation ≠ Chronic (perma) inflammation.
Muscle building is an adaptation that happens as a result of repeated inflammation (after every workout), so that you body is more resilient against damage the next time. This adaptation trains your body to better deal with chronic inflammation long-term.
Also, the micro-tears hypothesis has been largely debunked. Muscle building is *likely* caused by some combination of 3 hypotheses: tension, metabolites & cell swelling.
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