πͺ Flexing muscle results in contraction of smaller muscle fibers, each muscle fiber is made of smaller links called sarcomeres, and inside each sarcomere are even tinier "contractile fibers" called actin and myosin.Β Β
Muscle growth is a result of a process where more myosin filaments are added to each muscle fiber.Β
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