2017-11-15
25 分钟You're listening to episode 112 from the Feel Good English podcast, How Stress Can Make You Stronger.
Hello there, Kevin here with another episode of the Feel Good English podcast.
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I'm going to talk about a concept today, a pretty complicated one.
A concept that'll stretch your mind, make you think, possibly make your mind stronger.
And speaking of stronger, let's first talk about muscles.
How do we build muscle at the gym?
I mean, how do we really build muscle by going to the gym and lifting a light amount of weight many, many times?
Or by pushing your muscles beyond their limit, beyond what they're used to, what they're accustomed to?
Well, if you're not too knowledgeable about building muscles, it works like this.
When you go to the gym and lift really heavy weights, when you feel the burn and get close to your limit,
but push on and do just one more rep, one more repetition, that's when muscle growth happens.
This happens because the fragile parts, the fragile tissue in your muscles are broken down, are ripped, you could say.
You give a shock to your muscles by surprising them with heavier weight than they're used to.
Speaking of ripped, ripped means to tear or to damage something like a piece of paper or fabric.
You could rip your shirt on a nail, for example.
And muscles rip, the fibers rip,
which are repaired and strengthened by your body made bigger in order to avoid ripping the muscle again.
We also call a strong person with big muscles ripped, like when you see some big dude or doodette at the gym,