Q: What can I do nutritionally to increase the volume of my muscle cells? A: Muscles get bigger due to cells getting bigger – it’s what we call muscular hypertrophy. This can be achieved in two ways. Firstly, by increasing the volume contained in the muscle and, secondly, by increasing the amount of contractile muscle protein that the cell is made of. Most people, consciously or unconsciously, focus on the second type of hypertrophy. The really smart trainer, however, will work hard to get both happening at the same time. It should be noted, here, that some people believe that increases in muscular size are also due to what is called hyperplasia – that is, the splitting of muscle fibers to create new ones. Others state that humans cannot increase the number of muscle fibers in their body. Even, if ...

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