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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There is a fine line between tearing a muscle to make it bigger and tearing a muscle to shreds.
Micro tears build back bigger and stronger, while if you rip the muscle off the bone/tendon, you are going to have a bad time.
Because when we exercise, some of our muscles are torn. Then they repair themselves again and become stronger. Do exercise and don’t smoke cause Momma will be sad.
Muscle damage is a correlation with muscle growth, not a causation. You actually don’t want to be crazy sore and causing tons of damage to get the most muscle growth as healing the damage takes resources that can be used for hypertrophy.
It’s almost like silly putty, if you pull the putty slowly it stretched, if you pull it really fast it just tears
There are some good machines at most gyms for **properly** exercising the back muscles, google Back Extension.
Using these regularly helps prevent actual strains.
Working out is like carefully pruning a plant so that it grows into a different (desired) direction, analogous to the micro tears that make muscles grow
Straining a muscle is like hacking at a plant randomly with an axe. It’s a shitload of damage in one spot, recovery is more difficult.
“your back” in the context of “straining your back” refers to your spine, which is not a muscle and doesn’t heal as fast or as well as muscle.
To properly grow your muscles you don’t only need to strain them, you also need to have proper diet, good sleep schedule and most importantly rest. It’s why personal trainers suggest spacing out your workouts, never the same muscles in two consecutive days, to give them ample time to repair the damage and make them stronger.
Back hurt is typically caused by people sitting in a chair every day for too long. It doesn’t give time for the back muscles to rest and properly heal and grow.
>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.
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