Muscle Adaption Through Exercise

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Ex-pro rugby player Adam Sharples studies how muscles remember how to grow

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Adam Sharples played as a front-row forward in the UK ’s Rugby Football League .

His research group was the first in the world to show that human skeletal muscle possesses an epigenetic memory of muscle growth after exercise.

The genes themselves aren’t changed, but the way they work is. Exercise stimulates muscle stem cells to contribute their nuclei.

“I could have saved myself some work, I suppose. I’ve got that hindsight now.”Excerpt adapted from On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters by Bonnie Tsui . Copyright 2025 by Bonnie Tsui . Published by arrangement with Algonquin Books , an imprint of Little, Brown and Company , a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. , New York , NY , U.S.A. All rights reserved..

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