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Why am I getting stronger from training but not gaining muscle?

Neurological Conditioning

Don't get nervous if you don't bulk up after your strength training workout. Your first response to strength training is neurological--the nervous system learns to recruit more of the muscle to complete a weight training routine. So your initial strength gains are due to nervous system response, not muscle growth, which comes later. You start to get strong before you start to get big, and that's a good thing.

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4/2/2008 11:58:52 AM
Bill Smith said:

Also remember that once you have been training for a few months you will not notice yourself bulking up as fast as you did when you first started training,But keep it up.

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