Sentences with phrase «myofibril hypertrophy»

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The second one is called myofibrillar hypertrophy and it represents enlargement of the muscle fiber as it gains more myofibrils, which contracts and does all the functional work — creates tension in the muscle.With this type of hypertrophy, the area density of myofibrils increases and there is a significantly greater ability to exert muscular strength.

The bodybuilder simply has more non functional sarcoplasmic hypertrophy making his muscles bigger but not stronger as it is the myofibrils that are responsible for contraction of the muscle.

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

Myofibrillar hypertrophy, then, refers to an increase in the size and number of myofibrils in muscle fibers.