The best way to exercise without building "short muscles" is swimming, running and other cardiovascular exercises. The best possible exercise for your joints, while toning your body is swimming.
No. It will help manage new muscle mass keeping you flexible but it doesn't directly affect muscle growth. Train for strength and eat for mass.
With pilates you are lifting your own mass, so it is fundamentally equivalent to lifting weights.
Whatever size you are trying to achieve go 25lbs more than that in mass then switch you're strength routine to a (toning) endurance routine
The difference between muscle mass and muscle hypertrophy is that muscle hypertrophy is the increase in size of skeletal muscle while muscle mass is the weight of your body muscle.
Swimming is great for toning muscle and keeping your heart healthy! It can be very good if you have poor joints, bones or low muscle mass as you 'weigh' less in water (bouyancy makes it easier) and walking in water is three times as good for you as walking normally in calories burned and muscle mass improvement. It is also good because you can never be too old or too unhealthy to start.. whereas running can be difficult to begin!
an extra adjective that's not needed to describe muscle mass. Muscle mass is the amount of muscle in ones body as a % of their total weight.
It would have to be leg and muscle mass that is the answer on a+
Yes, because as the size of your muscle increases, the mass of your muscle increases. And when the mass of your muscle increases, so does the weight.
Without consistent strength training, muscle size and strength decline with age. An inactive person loses 1/2 pound of muscle per year after age 20. After age 60, this rate of loss doubles. But, muscle loss is not inevitable. With regular strength training, muscle mass can be preserved throughout the lifespan, and the muscle lost can be rebuilt. Source: SparkPeople.com
Answer There's no such thing. Muscle is muscle. There are no "lean" muscles or "bulky"muscles. Some people have a greater muscle mass, some have less muscle mass- but that mass is muscle. A pound of muscle is going to require energy to stay around. If you have a greater muscle mass, you'll have a greater metabolism. He's right you know. This is really splitting hairs!
hypertrophy - increase in muscle mass, more mass stronger muscle