This is exactly what the process of strength training does. When it comes to building muscle, hypertrophy doesn’t just happen on its own. It has to be triggered by a physiological need.

(Muscular hypertrophy refers to growing your muscles through exercise.) Of the 20 amino acids found in protein, leucine is the most essential to promote muscle growth-- and the body cannot produce it.

RT induced muscle hypertrophy does not occur uniformly throughout each individual muscle or region of the body. Therefore the distribution of muscle hypertrophy and total SM mass are important for ...

The study (pre print) conducted by Larsen et al investigated the effects of different training techniques on muscle hypertrophy, specifically focusing on the medial gastrocnemius muscle – a part ...

If you weight train regularly doing biceps curls, your biceps will show muscle hypertrophy. Cardiac hypertrophy is where the ventricle wall gets larger or thickens as a result of exercise.