Not exact matches
This unique characteristic in - turn offers 3 benefits, burning calories
during training,
increasing your resting metabolic rate (RMR) to burn up more calories when you are resting and building strength and
muscle size.
Another major focus of recovery immediately following exercise has to do with replenishing energy stores and fluids lost
during exercise and optimizing protein synthesis (the process of
increasing the protein content of
muscle cells, preventing
muscle breakdown and
increasing muscle size) by eating the right foods in the post-exercise meal.
The Fins discovered that
during the first 12 weeks of the study the
muscle size increased by about the same amount in all active men.
But
during this period, the
increased size of the
muscle is not significant.
It's on your rest days where the
muscle fibers that were damaged
during the workout sessions recover and
increase in
size.
If you want to gain only quality mass, aim to
increase * the
size of your meals after training or
during breakfast when your
muscles crave for more calories and nutrients.
Additionally, EMG amplitude measured in a
muscle during an exercise may be related to the long - term
increases in
muscle size in that part of the
muscle (Wakahara et al. 2012; Wakahara et al. 2013).