Is muscle soreness a good indicator of hypertrophy (muscle growth) stimulation and is it necessary to get bigger?
Yes it’s a pretty good indicator that the muscle has been stimulated to grow, yet it’s not 100% necessary to get bigger. If you’re training to gain muscle you should be slightly sore after a workout yet not so sore that you can’t move. If you get too sore it’s a good sign that you have induced too much inflammation and this can actually cause muscle cell death. The reason soreness isn’t always necessary to grow is because hormones like testosterone cause exercise independent muscle growth. Think of how much a male grows when he goes through puberty. That growth takes place even without exercise induced muscle soreness. So it is possible to train and stimulate growth simply because you stimulate anabolic hormones and eat enough to grow. It’s also possible to stimulate growth via training and not grow because you either don’t eat enough or have suboptimal anabolic hormone levels. Q: Do you have any techniques useful for immediately increasing sprinting speed that work similar to the stat
