What if I told you that you could add 1/2 an inch to your arms

in just 24-hours?  You'd probably be super skeptical, but 

bear with me for a minute.....

 

Lately there has been much talk of muscle fibers.

The greater the amount of fibers within each muscle, then the larger
it can get. Or so we have been led to believe. What has not been
taken into account is the actual size of each fiber.

If you removed a piece of muscle tissue from the thighs of two
different people and examine the tissue in the proper medical lab
you could see a big difference in the amount of muscle fiber contained
in each sample.

Sample A might have 5 times the amount of fibers as sample B, but
that does not mean it has five times the potential, because each
individual muscle fiber size is different. You might have many smaller
muscle fibers per square inch of muscle while I have larger ones.
The thing that stays the same is the size of each sample.

Muscle fiber comes in all different sizes and the amount you have is
not a limiting factor for large-scale muscular growth. What does
limit the size of a muscle potential for growth is muscle length.

But it is really not as bad as you might think. Here is a simple test
you can do that will give you an idea of how large a muscle can
grow through proper training.

Using your own biceps as an example take a measuring tape and
measure your biceps length from insertion point to insertion point.

Do this with your biceps stretched out and not flexed. Let's say for
example you find your biceps are nine inches long. That means that the
width of your biceps has in theory the potential to be nine inches wide.

Now picture your biceps nine inches wide. Your arm would start to
look like a thigh muscle and not a biceps any more.

That is how big a muscle can get.

Obviously no one would want to reach that point because you would
no longer be able to even flex your arm.

A muscle's full potential for size ends when it becomes as wide as it is
long. Now picture that same 9-inch long biceps just five inches wide.
Even then it would be enormous.