Why can’t you strengthen a tendon
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You absolutely can strengthen tendons.
One of the reasons people who do steroids are very likely to tear tendons is because muscles and connective tissue really needs to strengthen in conjunction. As you stress a muscle to make your body make it stronger, you also stress the tendons and ligaments and bones, and you body will reinforce them all too. After all, you are only as strong as the weakest part.
However, these parts don’t all develop at the same speed. Muscles tend to atrophy faster from lack of use and grow faster from use. Tendons have very little blood flow so repairs and reinforcements are slow. They also have very little warning before they fail. You might feel fine during a workout only to feel a pop. When people do steroids, their muscles grow much, much faster, but their connective tissue does not. It’s common for people to develop long term debilitating problems as a result of the damage they do to their own body just from simply being too strong. A lot of the mr Olympia competitors are basically cripples after they retire.
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