If exercising means you strain muscles to grow them, why does straining your back hurt it instead of making it stronger?

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If exercising means you strain muscles to grow them, why does straining your back hurt it instead of making it stronger?

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>If exercising means you strain muscles to grow them

It doesn’t mean that. Straining is putting too much exertion on your muscle to where it tears or pulls beyond what it’s supposed to. When you exercise a muscle, you’re only doing micro tears to it, which build back bigger and stronger. When you strain a muscle, that tearing is way beyond what you might do while exercising.