Why Your Body Fights Against Muscle GrowthâAnd How to Win
So, you want to strut around with an extra 30 to 40 pounds of dense, vascular, striated slabs of muscle, aesthetically cloaking your bones? Who doesn’t? If every guy reading this could wake up tomorrow with a chiseled 20-inch arm, he would. Any dude who says otherwise is lying.
The question of how to build muscle has been hotly debated for decades; it is literally the nucleus of our entire industry, fostering competing theories, processes, programs, products, and equipment—all geared toward unlocking the secret to building muscle or at least selling you the concept. While that might be well and good in corporate America, the underlying impediment to progress remains universally the same: there’s only one way to get your body to build muscle, and most people think they know what that is. What they actually know is usually just enough to get them in trouble.
Unfortunately, the only real method is not at the top of everyone’s list, nor do they even want to believe it—especially younger guys, many of whom think the secret lies in a small mountain of multi-use vials. But that doesn’t change the fact: you literally have to threaten your very existence to coerce your body into building muscle.
I know that sounds extreme, but if you break it down and appreciate the process, it’s literally and technically true. While you might desire 20-inch arms, Mother Nature does not, and she will fight tooth and nail to have it her way. To win this battle, you must enlist your body’s survival mechanism. Distilled to its core, building muscle is a matter of life and death. This means that when the body is subjected to frequent and crushing loads, it will adapt to survive.
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