Tag: muscle growth
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The Limits of Muscle Growth
The largest muscle size you can ever achieve is determined in combination by your genetic predisposition and your workout pattern, consistency, effort, and to a lesser degree nutrition. Beyond that you can push closer to your limit by using anabolic drugs like testosterone and it’s derivatives, Growth Hormone, IGF-1, Insulin and others. However, even those…
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How Do Muscles Grow?
Yesterdays discussion brought up some questions about the specifics of muscle growth. It seems there is some confusion on what muscle growth even is. To understand muscle growth we have to first understand what a muscle is made up of. Skeletal muscles are somewhere in the neighborhood of 80-85% water, this is the fluid that…
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Anabolic Sensitivity
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who is currently using steroids and he said something very interesting. I was mentioning the difference between gaining muscle with and without steroids and how difficult it is to gain without steroids and he said “I’m giving up on trying to get any bigger as…