How Does Muscle Recovery Time Work?
Introduction Muscle recovery time is the amount of time needed between workouts for muscles to repair themselves for the next workout. Exercise, whether aerobic or weight training, puts great stress on skeletal muscles, causing damage. The amount of damage is related to how hard the muscles are worked, how lose the muscles were when you started (stretch and warm up time), the level of nutrition in your diet, and how long the muscles were worked during the regimen. These variables will determine how much muscle recovery time is needed. How Muscle Grows You need muscle recovery time to allow the muscle to heal, while in the process growing the size and strength of the muscle (supercompensation). Any time you lift weights or do strenuous activities, you do some amount of muscle fiber damage. When this damage occurs, small satellite cells outside the damaged fibers fuse together and with the damaged fibers. As the satellite cells divide and replicate, some fuse to the damaged fibers and cr
