Sarcoplasmic vs. Myofibrillar Hypertrophy

Hello and welcome to 100% Real with Ruby. Today we are finishing off the chat to talk about the reality about building muscle, how long it actually takes, and if it is possible to get rapid results, and if it is, what does that include? What does that entail? and why do people feel like they're looking worse when they're actually in the process of looking better i call it the shit before the fit here we go gaining fat or i'm training my legs but my legs gain muscle really fast i don't want to train them that much and the argument that we're gonna now move into is how you can't actually build muscle as fast as you think you can and the reality of how slow muscle grows especially yeah so okay so you brought up a very good point we went before we got on about this because um it's gonna it's gonna it's gonna help me like lay out a concept again something that a lot of people argue about in the industry it's like um you could realistically and we've thought about we've thought about this for many many decades have two different types of what we consider muscle growth or it's probably more prevalent say muscle size so you have what's called sarcoplasmic hypertrophy which is basically your higher rep pump up work you're creating a lot of um of energy breakdown and recycling and that causes anytime you do that you're causing a bit of inflammation anytime you contract a muscle you're releasing inflammatory chemicals and myokines anytime you have more inflammation you're going to draw water to that. So part of like bodybuilding pump up or a big part of that muscle size is going to be just fluid retention in the muscles. So it's like you, you pump your arms up and you stay a little bit swollen for three or four days. You start to deflate, you do another arm workout, you pump it up. So a lot of that, a lot of that size gain you get from that is just temporary cellular swelling and a small amount of muscle growth of myofibrillar growth, where the muscle fibers are actually starting to get thick. If you go on the opposite end and you look at people lifting really heavy ass weights, you have less of the inflammatory pump up, but you have a lot more of the actual muscle fiber thickening. So you being a, uh, being a power lifter, former competitive power lifter, you understand this, right? You've done physique, but you've also done, um, power lifting. So it's like when you're doing physique work, you can put on weight really fast, but you have to maintain it. Like the minute you, if you don't work out for a week, you kind of deflate. So it's like, you have to try to try to do your bodybuilding work every three or four days. If you do power lifting, you don't really, you'll notice you're getting really strong. You don't seem to be building a lot of muscle quickly, but it's more dense muscle. The muscle looks harder because it's actually, it's actual muscle fiber thickening. Whereas in sarcoplasmic pump up stuff is mainly intracellular swelling. They both, they both produce increases in muscular size. The heavy lifting produces more muscular size. It's just really slow. The pump up where it makes you look artificially bigger, faster, but the actual muscle growth is very slow. So in both of those situations, muscle growth is very slow just one gives you the temporary appearance of being bigger than you are as long as you maintain the pump up right so it's just something you said before that i want to repeat because i love it before we clicked record luke was just like yeah the women that think they're special snowflakes that think they just gain muscle so fast but the thing is no matter who you are muscle growth does not happen that fast on a yearly basis you're up here and on the note of the muscle the different muscle growths that's probably why i have the lines you see in my legs as well because a lot of the work i've done has been the power work which has developed that density not the ballooning