Sentences with phrase «individual muscle fibres»

When you do an exercise your body is not used to it your muscles become fatigued (through volume) and the muscle suffers microtrauma which is small tears to the individual muscle fibres (through load), it is this that stimulates the repair process and causes muscle growth (the size of the muscle fibres increases — hypertrophy).

We found that even though individual muscle fibres did not change in size, the muscles of HRT users showed greater strength by generating a higher maximum force compared to non-HRT users.

Roger Harris of the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket and Alan Wilson of the School of Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, believe that the analysis of individual muscle fibres from a racehorse can indicate its ability to accelerate and to sustain a sprint, as well as its general fitness.