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Anonymous
Hey /fit/, I have a question about strength/endurance training, and muscle building/strengthening.

If I'm working out, and I'm pushing myself, during that period, will I get stronger, and increase my endurance, or will that only come after a period of rest to recuperate?

I am of the understanding muscle hypertrophy comes from microtrauma being healed stronger than they were before.

Does that healing of microtrauma occur during a workout? can it? or is it all in the time after a workout while resting?

Basically, My arms aren't nearly as strong as I want them to be. I'm beginning, and I'm pretty unfit. I understand pushups, when you incline your feet become harder, and when you incline your hands become easier.

So I had an idea of doing pushups regularly as a base, then when I tire out, moving up some steps on a stairway to provide inclination and ease of movement, sort of like a bicyclist changing gears for a hill. My goal is to find an elevation where I can do 50 pushups, then move back and forth between it and a lower inclination until I can do 50 on the next one, and then further and further until I am doing them regularly, or perhaps even with a inclination of my feet.

Would it be possible to make in training strides towards this, or would I have to rest up before I would see any improvement in my arm strength and endurance at lower levels. Of course making it from an elevation of a few feet to the floor in one session is impossible, but if I tire out after 40 on one inclination, move up, and do 50, would it be possible to move back down and do 50 there?
>> Anonymous
I've been only hitting the gym hard for 7 weeks now, but I know that my arms are dead as fuck and I can't lift shit once I'm done my arm workout. SO my guess is it only heals after.
>> Anonymous
troll or just amazing stupid?
>> Anonymous
>>121928
Growth occurs after the damage.

If you recorded muscles before and after workouts, they'd be smaller after because they've been depleted and destroyed, basically, however, they grow back bigger and better than before, which is why it's important to rest.

The reason inclining makes it harder is it takes it off the larger muscle head off the chest and more onto smaller muscle of shoulder\upper chest.

Best way would be to find a number of pushups that you can do easily, say 20, then take a bit off, so we'll say 15.

Do 15 pushups every hour on the hour, after 2 weeks, take a few days break, then see how many you can do in a row, the results should be surprisingly good.
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also for your muscles to grow you have to sleep a lot minimum 8 better 9-10 hours.