When will your muscles tear?!

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There's two general stages. Muscle growth happens, in a nutshell, by fibers being torn. The body naturally heals these, and overcompensates. This causes muscles to grow stronger.

Then there's overkill, where you tear your actual muscle. This happens more with lifting too much weight, less often with too many reps of something easier like push ups.

A muscle tear is more properly described as a muscle strain, which means the fibers of a muscle in the body have been overstretched, resulting in a severe injury. In the more acute cases, this strain may give rise to a rupture of the capillaries and bleeding in the muscle. This type of injury usually occurs in people who participate in a physical sport but is not exclusive to those individuals. You may suffer from muscle strain (or muscle tear) from extreme or unnecessary physical activities, an improper warm-up prior to these activities or simply a lack of flexibility and conditioning needed for the sport or fitness regimen you're participating in.

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