Build Muscles In Your Dreams
When a mason lays bricks, a structure rises. Much like when you are told that working out in the gym with weights helps make muscles bigger. Likewise, we are told that running builds endurance. Yes, your heart muscles get stronger, tone and elasticity of the blood vessels improve, diaphragm strengthens, and so does your lung efficiency.
But that’s not how exercise science truly works. When you train, all you do is create stress in the body and mind. Muscles don’t grow while lifting - bones and tendons do not strengthen when loading - stamina doesn’t build while running. The “adaptation” happens later and quietly while you are recovering. Different tissues adapt at different speeds. Muscles adapt relatively fast, tendons and bones take much longer, and the nervous system is even slower to adapt.
And here’s another thing that most trainers won’t tell you. When you rush back into training too soon, you interrupt “adaptation”. Most of us mistake effort for progress. Soreness that doesn’t settle, and fatigue that lingers, isn’t weakness. It's an unfinished adaptation. The body isn’t asking for more motivation and effort - it’s asking for time. Training is not about how hard you push each day but about how much your body can absorb, adapt, and come back stronger the next day. So understand that process. Ignore it, and you will get injured.
Adaptation takes time, and patience is not laziness - it’s intelligence!
Zareer Patell.
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