my opinion
I wouldn't think it's physically possible for a muscle to grow without training it directly or indirectly.
If I take what said you literally, then I will agree to disagree. Playing devil’s advocate here . . .
Think puberty. Where the muscle in teenagers grow as a function of increased testosterone (and other things, not ‘training’
. . . other chemical changes).
A sedentary teenager, in the absence of any true muscular stimulation, at the end of puberty, will have heavier bones and
about twice the muscular mass. This is the result testosterone, not weight training.
My opinion; very little training is required to stimulate muscular growth, especially when you add ‘steroids.’ In fact, many
and I dare most would be bodybuilders (those with the potential to be real bodybuilders) would gain musculature mass in
the absence of training, just by increasing their testosterone. And when you add properly performed weight training, miracles
happen. But many over train; either train too much or too long, have the most unbalanced diets imaginable (and eat waaay
too much), take far too many supplements and drugs and are actually doing their best to prevent the best possible gains
from occurring. This burden actually puts your body at a tremendous disadvantage when it comes to adding muscular size.
It is so busy doing other things, coping with the demands of supplements or diet, there is not much recovery ability remaining
to build meaningful muscular size. Contrary to popular belief, it takes so very little (relative) if you have what it takes. If you
don’t, then no amount of training or supplementation will compensate, alter your genetic disposition.
But I digress . . . sorry. Back to my point.
I am not saying that one could or should step on stage without weight training (although I have seen a few people who could
and should have, much to the embarrassment of those who trained like bloody fools). What I am saying is that it is possible
to gain muscle by doing nothing or at least nothing out of the ordinary; no direct or indirect stimulation, just by adding testosterone.
Anybody who has raised, been around teenagers, watched then sit around and eat potato chips and chug soft drinks all day knows this.
On a person note, in an attempt to answer the OP’s question (Anyone have a muscle that grows without training?) my answer would
have to be no. Every fraction of an inch, every ounce of pure muscle on any body part has been has struggle, has not come easy.
Nothing came easy, grew on its own accord, via indirect effect, call it what you want. With the exception of my chest, any muscle I
have stopped training purposefully, will diminish in size. And nothing has grown without some sort of progressive stimulation.
But I will say this though, when I started TRT (I am 60 now and look exactly the same as my avatar) pretty much everything came back
and then some from its previous best in my youth, with the exception of my arms. (I could never get them back to their best when I
was 22) Everything else improved beyond my previous best with not nearly the effort I once put into training. I just grew and became
more muscular, only because of the additional testosterone. I changed nothing else.
pretty sure that's exactly what steroids do to normal untrained folks. I think its why they were invented.....
"to treat conditions resulting from steroid hormone deficiency, such as delayed puberty, as well as
diseases that result in loss of lean muscle mass, such as cancer and AIDS...." - some medical journal
love ya Ashoprep
i didn't train legs for nearly a year and tbh they lost fullness but didn't dramatically shrink.
unless i read it wrong, the only exercise you cant do is stiff dead? no biggie. i think you are gtg.
-JS
I was waiting for somebody to post this. Thank you. And I agree.
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