Month: February 2014

***** Before talking about the training methods for enhancing muscular development let’s give a definition to two different concepts: hypertrophy and hyperplasia. Muscle hypertrophy: muscle volume increase due to increased volume of the elements that compose it (fibers, myofibrils, connective tissue, sarcomeres, contractile proteins etc..). Muscle hyperplasia: increase of muscle volume consequent to numeric increase of the cells that compose it. Aplasia: Muscle volume decrease following reduction of the number of cells that compose it. Atrophy: Muscle volume decrease due to the decrease in the volume of individual cells. Until some time ago it was believed that hyperplasia was...