Muscle growth

[reddog]

How long does it actually take for muscle growth on rest days opinions?

 

[muskate]

Your body is constantly rebuilding and breaking down muscle tissue. Remember that protein and muscle is what your body is comprised of. Not just your skeletal muscles. You gain muscle when the rate of muscle protein synthesis is greater then protein breakdown. Scientifically it means you are in a positive nitrogen balance because you are retaining more nitrogen then your body is excreting.

Building muscle is a slow process. Naturally you can gain about 10 pounds of muscle per year. Enhanced it would be 20-30 pounds per year. Keep in mind that it's very individual and the longer you have been training, the harder it will be to build additional muscle as you are closer and closer to your genetic potential.

 

[reddog]

Great awnser musKate very detailed

 

[Jay Scott]

Your body is constantly rebuilding and breaking down muscle tissue. Remember that protein and muscle is what your body is comprised of. Not just your skeletal muscles. You gain muscle when the rate of muscle protein synthesis is greater then protein breakdown. Scientifically it means you are in a positive nitrogen balance because you are retaining more nitrogen then your body is excreting.

Building muscle is a slow process. Naturally you can gain about 10 pounds of muscle per year. Enhanced it would be 20-30 pounds per year. Keep in mind that it's very individual and the longer you have been training, the harder it will be to build additional muscle as you are closer and closer to your genetic potential.

That is why some people experience 'newbie gains' and start growing super fast in the beginning, but at some point it all slows down.

Bodybuilding takes time and patience. Keep that in mind

 

[LevButlerov]

It is very hard to quantify the exact amounts of muscle mass that you will gain on a daily basis, but @muskate has given some very good estimates of the yearly gains one could expect. In any case, this is not a fast process, and it takes quite some time to build some nice quality musculature.

 

[stevesmi]

remember your body is always trying to fight off muscle gains. we have muscle killing hormones we release too. it is a constant war

if you are in deep in the lifestyle it is never easy to build muscle and will take time.

 

[Masonic Bodybuilder]

It is really a constant process...you tear muscle fibres in the gym and the body repairs them...rinse and repeat.

 

[qqwww12]

building muscle needs patience, it's slow and needs constant hard working.
and there's a faster way I think useful to build abdominal muscle, sit-ups, it's effective lol