Sentences with phrase «muscle fibre size»

An increase in muscle fibre size means that those fibres can store more energy, and an increase in muscle fibre count means an increase in physical strength.

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The uterine muscle fibres shorten, or retract, with each contraction, leading to a gradual decrease in the size of the uterus, which helps to shear the placenta away from its attachment site on the mother's uterine wall.

Muscle fibres in old mice injected with GDF11 doubled in size to match that of 2 - month old mice.

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.

The ability for growing muscle fibres for improved strength and size of your muscles is written in our genes.

These strands increase both size and strength of muscle fibres, which result in the increase of muscle mass when you lift regularly.

Increased muscle mass (i.e. size, width and volume of your muscle fibres) will help your muscles become more visible beneath body fat; however, significant mass is not always necessary for improved tone.

Although the muscle fibres in your abdominal area is a little more geared towards endurance then flat out force and power, they still need to be trained in the same way as any other muscle if you are looking for muscle hypertrophy (increasing your muscle size).

A muscle can either grow in size by increasing the diameter of the muscle fibres, whilst the number of fibres remains constant.

Myofibrillar hypertrophy is an increase in the number and size of myofibrils in your muscle fibres.

Hyperplasia Hyperplasia is when your muscle fibres are split, the idea being that it should result in a larger number of fivers, theoretically the same size as your original muscle fibres.

Hypertrophy Hypertrophy refers to when muscle increases in size because of the muscle fibres increasing in size.

It does this by expanding the size of the muscle fibres, as well as building new muscle fibres to handle the strain.

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).