Definitions & Muscle Growth
What is Hypertrophy?
Muscle growth
Hypertrophy is mainly caused by this.
Mechanical tension
What does MUR stand for?
Motor Unit Recruitment
Enjoying an exercise increases this.
Motivation
What is Atrophy?
Muscle Shrinking
Mechanical tension happens when muscles contract slowly against this.
Weight
MUR helps recruit more muscle what?
Fibers
Unstable exercises make you focus on this.
Balancing/stabilizing the weight.
Muscles are usually either growing or doing this
Shrinking
Many people wrongly think these cause hypertrophy.
Microtears
MUR is improved by producing more of this.
Force
Bilateral exercises use both what?
Sides
Hypertrophy happens when muscles respond to a difficult what?
Task
Microtears are mostly caused by training and this.
Fatigue
Motor units are recruited from smallest to what?
Largest
MPRE stands for this.
Maximum perceived rate of exertion.
The body adapts to repeated tasks to make them more what?
Easier
During the last few reps, contractions should become more this.
slowed
More muscle fibers experiencing tension increases this.
Hypertrophy
At MPRE, your signals are not strong enough to do this.
Life the weight