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Why muscles aren't torn down and built back bigger

The Chris and Paul Show

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The Evolution of Muscle Damage

The process of hypertrophy involves splitting those myofibrils into smaller ones and then building them back up. The muscle damage process involves completely removing a damaged myofibril. And so one of the places I think has been completed is that you have an increase in muscle protein synthesis.

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