Muscle hypertrophy  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump
to: navigation, search  Athletes use a combination of strength
training, diet, and supplementation to induce muscle
hypertrophy.  Muscle hypertrophy involves an increase in size of
skeletal muscle through an increase in the size of its component
cells. Hypertrophy can be broken down into two types of
categories: myofibrillar and sarcoplasmic. Each of these
specific types of muscle hypertrophy will result in increasing
size of cells, but not of equal effect. Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy
is focused on increasing the actual size of the muscle, and less
on increasing strength. Myofibril hypertrophy will focus more on
strength increase and less on an increase in the size of the
skeletal muscle.  Hypertrophy stimuli[edit]  A range of stimuli
can increase the volume of muscle cells. Summarizing, these
changes occur as an adaptive response that serves to increase
the ability to generate force or resist fatigue in anaerobic
conditions.  Strength training[edit]