After reading the article, you will learn whether to consider muscle pain as a factor in progress with the establishment of a positive anabolic balance. The content of the article:
- Muscle damage
- QC indicator
After training, we often feel pain - it is aching and even somewhat pleasant. People who have not been involved in sports for a long time say that they even miss her. But is pain really necessary? Do we really need these micro-injuries, which, according to scientists, contribute to muscle growth?
Muscle damage
It is known that injuries to muscles - microscopic fibers - lead to an increase in their volume. The more muscle, the stronger we ourselves, the higher our physical performance. Heavy lifting is also known to cause severe damage to muscle fibers.
In response to this, the body begins to turn on the sirens and trigger a process called "muscle reconstruction" in physiology. Sirens screech, protein is actively synthesized, muscles increase. But you need to understand the difference between injury and damage.
If the muscles can recover during the day, then this is a minor and even beneficial injury. Muscles in this case do not overload, do not strain, and the fibers recover quickly enough. But if the muscles cannot heal for several days, then we are talking about an injury.
This injury can be associated with an inflammatory process that will prevent the muscles from recovering so easily and lead to damage. Alas, there is a limit. And if you do not follow the precautions, you can damage your muscles so that the sport will be closed forever.
Indicator of muscle damage QC
An indicator of muscle damage is called creatine kinase. Simply - KK. If the level of this substance is very high, it means that the muscle membranes are actively destroyed. If an athlete has a likelihood of injury, blood must be donated to the CC level. The indicator will be from 1000 to 44000 - in this case, the answer will be positive.
Most often, muscles are damaged during bodybuilding exercises that try to cause muscle hypertrophy. The CC after such a hard workout reaches 400. This means that the growth and reconstruction of fibers occurs. Such training does not lead to injuries, but forces the muscles to grow actively.
Research has also shown that muscles begin to actively repair the day after injury, rather than immediately. All this makes it clear that it is necessary to distinguish between injuries and beneficial injuries. These are two different things with different consequences. To induce muscle remodeling, a very subtle process of muscle growth in response to muscle damage must be triggered. We can say that overtraining is needed, overstraining of muscle fibers. After training, the muscles should be tired and aching, but not sore.
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To learn to distinguish between overvoltage and injury, we advise you to donate blood for CC at first. Once you get used to discriminating between physical sensations, you can distinguish between injury and stress on your own and avoid severe damage that cannot be repaired within 24 hours.
