Skeletal muscle hypertrophy is stimulated by specific intracellular signaling cascades triggered predominantly by high active mechanical tension on individual muscle fibers.
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Hypertrophy Physiology: Mechanical Tension vs Metabolic Stress
Physiology & Training Takeaway
The primary driver of muscular growth: mechanotransduction, titin kinase activation, sarcoplasmic vs myofibrillar hypertrophy, and metabolite accumulation.
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