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Getbig Bodybuilding Boards => Training Q&A => Topic started by: tgw85 on January 08, 2011, 08:44:40 AM
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Does gravity actually influence the direction myofibrils grow? Such as, does gravity influence the direction satellite cells 'congregate' when moving in to repair the damaged (just worked) area of muscle? Basically does gravity hinder the satellite cells from moving to the 'top' of the fiber, when healing and growing, and therefore hinders the fiber from growing more upwards then if 'grown' in zero gravity? How do we know fibers don't significantly grow just down towards the grownd... but b/c of the tendon it can 'push off' as it grows, allowing it grow upwards too?
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Yes gravity influences muscle growth, it makes weights heavy.
Muscle shape, no gravity doens't influence it.
What's with all the questions about gravity and muscle?
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hinders the fiber from growing more upwards then if 'grown' in zero gravity? How do we know fibers don't significantly grow just down towards the grownd...
Muscles dramatically atrophy in zero-g...
...better to train with gravity...
...just sayin'...
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Foale_ZeroG.jpg/375px-Foale_ZeroG.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Weightless_hair.jpg/220px-Weightless_hair.jpg)
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Yes gravity influences muscle growth, it makes weights heavy.
Muscle shape, no gravity doens't influence it.
What's with all the questions about gravity and muscle?
I don't know. But that's why I'm asking so I can move on.
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I always pondered what it would be like to curl a barbell in zero g...
I think it would it feel like you're shaking it.