The reason why people go to gym is to either lose weight by burning fat and/or gain muscle. For smokers and vapers, it can be a lot harder to do so because of the damage smoking is doing or has done to their body in the past. This article focuses on what science tells us how to increase muscle mass and how it relates to the smoking/vaping community. How Muscle Grows After a workout in the gym, muscle fibres need repairing. Proteins are needed to form new muscle strands to fuse with the damaged fibres. When joined together, the muscle fibres increase in thickness and creates muscle growth. Muscles can only get bigger and stronger if the rate of growth is greater than the rate of muscle protein breakdown. High intensity training is needed to stimulate optimum muscle growth. Of course, oxygen is also needed to induce muscle growth. Healthy lungs are critical and so smokers may find it difficult to train at these levels which is why vaping is a better alternative. Vaping ...
How To Increase Muscle Mass – What Science Tells Us
