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To gain muscle mass, you need to push your body to the limit when it comes to weightlifting or doing your WODs. However, while this is necessary for some sexy gains, it can also cause damage to your muscles. If you don't give your body enough time to recover before working out again, you are doing more harm than good.

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Why is recovery important? Simply put, when you workout, you are adding stress, creating micro tears and causing inflammation in the body. To improve strength and tone, the body must recover after a workout.

This is an active process, despite the word “recovery” because the process involves repairing damaged muscle tissue and replacing fluids lost during training. If you don't give your body enough time to recover between workouts, then you won't be able access the benefits and reason for that workout session.

The bottom line is that if you want build the physique you want, you need to give your body time to recover after a workout. This means getting enough sleep every night (7-8 hours) and giving yourself at least one full day off each week during which you don't exercise at all. The sooner you start recovering from a workout, the better. If you are sore, that’s a pretty good indicator that your body is repairing and needs a bit more rest.

Balance

The body likes to maintain a balance between anabolism and catabolism. Anabolism is the process by which your body uses nutrients to build tissue, while catabolism refers to breaking down of that same tissue for energy. If you don't give your body enough time to recover--you're going at it too hard and too often--it will not have enough energy or resources left over for building muscle mass or repairing damaged tissue.

In order for muscles to grow, they need more protein than usual; this is why making sure you get enough protein through your diet or supplemented with protein shakes is crucial, especially within 30 to 60 minutes after a session. However, if you're drinking those shakes all day long instead of eating real food then chances are good that instead of building new muscle mass like we want them to, our bodies will just break down existing tissues faster than they can rebuild them; this leads us back again towards catabolism rather than anabolism which means no gains!

When you work out, your muscles experience microtrauma or injuries.

When you work out, your muscles experience microtrauma or injuries. Microtrauma is a small injury that occurs when the muscle fibers are stretched beyond their normal range of motion. These small tears heal over time to become stronger than before because of this stress and adaptation process. This is the first step in muscle growth!

The body responds to this microtrauma by creating new proteins (muscle tissue). These new proteins help rebuild damaged tissue by creating scar tissue around each damaged area so it can repair itself faster than normal rates so you can get back into shape faster!

Your body responds by releasing growth hormone and other anabolic hormones to help repair and build muscle.

Your body responds by releasing growth hormone and other anabolic hormones to help repair and build muscle. Growth hormone is released during sleep, exercise, fasting and stress. It's also released during pregnancy!

In addition to being important for building muscle mass (and losing fat), these anabolic hormones also play a role in keeping you young by slowing down the aging process.

As you continue to work out, the muscles experience more microtrauma and the process of muscle growth continues. The body responds by creating new proteins that help repair damaged tissue faster than normal rates so you can get back into shape faster! If you stop working out, your body stops producing these proteins and repairing itself at a fast rate.

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This process is called anabolism.

When you exercise, your muscles undergo microtrauma. This is a fancy way of saying that they get torn down, but they also grow back stronger than before. The process by which they grow back stronger is called anabolism.

Anabolism is the body's response to physical stressors like weight training or running; it helps us recover from these activities so we can keep doing them without getting injured or burned out. In other words, recovery allows us to keep making progress!

It requires protein breakdown and synthesis, which also requires energy.

Recovery is the process by which your body restores itself after a workout. It requires protein breakdown and synthesis, which also requires energy. How much energy do you need to recover?

You can use this calculation: ((Total Calories Burned + Protein Intake)/4) * 24 hours = Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE). If you are trying to lose weight, then subtract 10-20% from this number so that it's lower than your actual TDEE.

The energy comes from the breakdown of glycogen and fat after a workout.

The energy comes from the breakdown of glycogen and fat after a workout. Glycogen is a stored form of glucose, and fat is a stored form of energy in your body. In order to perform this repair process, your muscles need to be supplied with enough adenosine triphosphate (ATP) molecules to allow them to work properly. ATP is produced by breaking down glycogen into glucose and then converting some of that glucose into ATP molecules through an aerobic process involving oxygen from your blood stream. It takes about 60 minutes for this process to occur after exercise ends so it can begin immediately if you start eating right away!

If you don't give your body enough time to recover from the workouts you do, you won't see results!

The body needs time to repair and build muscle. The body also needs energy to do this, as well as protein. If you don't give your body enough time between workouts, it won't have enough resources available to repair and rebuild muscle tissue.

Carbohydrates are the primary source of energy for most activities, including exercise, so consuming a sufficient amount is important for recovery after exercise too.

If you wait too long to eat after exercising, your muscles will start to use up their stored fats as an energy source instead. This is also known as “burning fat” and it’s not a bad thing; it just means that you won’t be able to get the same amount of ATP molecules out of those fats. If your body uses fat for energy rather than glycogen, then it takes even longer for your muscles to recover because they need more ATP molecules. If you don't eat enough, your body will take the energy it needs from your muscles or fat stores. In addition to being counterproductive for building muscle, this can also slow down weight loss.

Always make sure that you give your body enough time to recover from strenuous activity so that it can gain strength and grow muscle mass.

For athletes, recovery is a critical part of the process of getting stronger. If you're not giving your body enough time to recover from strenuous activity, then it can't gain strength and grow muscle mass.

It's important to note that recovery depends on many different factors: how hard you train, how often you train and what types of exercises are done during each session. For example, if an athlete lifts weights three times per week at high intensity levels with little rest between sets (for example: 3 sets of 8 reps), then their recovery will likely require more downtime than someone who lifts lighter weights with longer rests between sets (for example: 4 sets of 10 reps).

In the end, recovery is crucial to muscle development. If you don't give your body enough time to recover from strenuous activity, then it won't be able to gain strength or grow muscle mass. Make sure that you're giving yourself enough time off after workouts so that your body can heal itself before starting another strenuous session!

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