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Hey Quaranturnt Crew, For the final pillar in muscular hypertrophy, we have metabolic stress. This refers to the build up of chemical byproducts and the shortage of metabolic inputs in your muscle. After a good amount of work, you start really feeling the burn, that’s a build up of byproducts like lactic acid. Additionally, unless you’re doing slow aerobic work like jogging, you are running low on oxygen. Both of these factors lead to stress on the muscle cells. And, again, your body has to adapt to that imposed demand. I’m not educated enough to know what about this leads to more muscle mass. I imagine the body is building more systems in the muscle in order to manage the build up of waste, but that’s totally just conjecture. I need to find a book. I’m planning on getting this one if anyone wants to join me. With the 3 pillars of muscular hypertrophy behind us, I want to touch on the concept of time under tension. Max brought this up for us a couple weeks ago if you remember. Now that you have the fundamental principles under your belt, you can understand how time is an important factor. How much muscular damage can you do in 1 second of work (pls don’t take that to the extreme…)? How much metabolic stress can build up if you only work for 1 second? How much of a signal is sent to your body if you only endure mechanical tension for a second? More time → more signal → more results. To a point, that is. Your body can only handle so much before it shifts from “let’s build for strength” to “OH MY GOD WERE DYING”. Here’s the IG Post.  
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