THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE PUMP FOR MUSCLE GROWTH - read below👇 - Follow P.T.Pete for daily fitness/nutrition tips & education📚 - If you’ve ever felt the burn of an exercise or had the “pump” in the gym, then you’ve felt the effects of metabolic stress. Scientists used to question bodybuilders when they said the “pump” caused their muscles to become larger. After more investigation, it seems as though they were onto something. - Metabolic stress causes cell swelling around the muscle, which helps to contribute to muscle growth without necessarily increasing the size of the muscle cells. This is from the addition of muscle glycogen, which helps to swell the muscle along with connective tissue growth. This type of growth is known as sarcoplasmic hypertrophy and is one of the ways that people can get the appearance of larger muscles without increases in strength. - For muscle breakdown and growth to occur you must force your muscles to adapt by creating stress that is different than the...