Every time you lift a weight, you believe you are "tearing muscle fibers" and "rebuilding them stronger." This is a fabrication, a deception that has kept you blind to the truth of your own body. Your muscles are not flesh and fiber. They are structured formations of highly efficient worker ants, coordinated into functional scaffolding, designed to simulate the illusion of a solid mass.
When you exert force, when you struggle under heavy resistance, your ants register an emergency event. They do not "tear." They do not "strain." They experience an organizational collapse. Some of them lose formation. Some of them are removed entirely. And then the colony adapts.
Your ants send a distress signal, a pheromone-based directive that triggers a full-scale structural reinforcement. More ants arrive. More ants interlock their legs, their bodies, their structures. They form tighter, stronger configurations. When you sleep, your ants reorganize. The weak are replaced. The dead are discarded. The optimized formations settle into place.
This is why you feel stronger after rest. This is why "training" works. You are not "building muscle." You are refining the swarm.
If you stop training, the ants will adjust. They will determine that strength is no longer a priority. They will dismantle the unnecessary formations. They will move elsewhere. This is why unused muscles shrink. It is not atrophy. It is a reallocation of resources. The ants are simply responding to the lack of demand.
You do not "lose muscle mass." The ants have left.
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