Muscle Makers- Your Body's Hormonal Response To Training

Strong is not the new skinny, the new beautiful or the new black. Strong has always been strong. Strong is life. Live strong.

We know that lifting weights and building strength changes our bodies. Yet, many of us are still locked in the mindset that weight training makes us bulky. Thankfully more women are learning on a daily basis that this is just a fallacy and that educated and informed decisions around exercise and intelligent training builds our bodies, improves our health, and extends longevity, while also constructing an engine that performs optimally and looks good, too. Strong is not the new skinny, the new beautiful or the new black. Strong has always been strong. Strong is life. Live strong. 

The question is, how does strength training actually change you physically? We understand that the stress applied by the exercise tears your muscle fibres. The combination of adequate rest promotes healing and proper nutrition repairs these tears and fuels the growth of muscle, building each torn fibre back to a stronger, more formidable version of its former self.

However, the real magic happens when these activities stimulate the release of potent hormones. These are the ‘bad boys’ of the body as they actually influence how your body changes. Ultimately, the magic of weight training lies in its ability to conjure up the best chemistry. 

The more integral of the hormones manipulated by training are the ones most of us are familiar with, namely testosterone, growth hormone and cortisol.