Muscle Building And Lay Offs

November 24, 2010

One last muscle building post for this week.
Obvious fact…unplanned breaks from working out suck.
(Mostly because they typically happen as a result of an injury).
But here’s the truth about lay offs – They can actually help you build muscle.
Now, I know that mentally time off from training can be really, really tough, but physically they may hold a lot of benefit.
So here’s the basic premise…We don’t know exactly why, but after a two week period of being in a cast the cross sectional area of the muscles in your leg can decrease by around 10% (you lose muscle size).
After 10 weeks of rehab, the cross-sectional area can increase by around 15% (you gain muscle size)
Lose muscle now to build muscle later?
Again, I have no idea why this occurs..call it supercompensation or look to myogenic transcription factors like myogenin, MRF4, Myf5 and MyoD…whatever the case may be, time off could be […]

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