What Makes Muscles Grow?

Muscles account for what percent of our overall body weight?

• 10-30%

• 30-50%

• 50-70%

• 70-90%

The bigger a challenge you accomplish, the bigger your brain signals will grow.

• True

• False

When muscles are exposed to stress, they experience microscopic damage?

• True

• False

When muscle cells experience microscopic damage due to stress, the injured cells release inflammatory molecules called ____________________________.

• nuclei

• lactose

• cytokines

• Dalkoloids

The less damage you do to the muscle tissue, the more your muscles will grow.

• True

• False

Because our bodies have adapted to most everyday activities, those activities do NOT cause enough stress to make muscles grow.

• True

• False

Building new muscle by exposing muscle cells to higher workloads than they are used to, is a process known as __________________________.

• gastronomy

• atrophy

• big-muscle-ology

• hypertrophy

Muscles will grow if you do NOT continuously expose them to some resistance.

• True

• False

What is the name of the process when muscles shrink due to not working them consistently?

• atrophy

• prototrophy

• robloxophy

• hypertrophy

Muscles rely on more than just activity to grow. The amount of their growth also depends on proper nutrition, hormones, and __________________.

• age

• rest

• exercise

• height