Nutrition for Health, Fitness &. Sport 9th Edition by Melvin Williams

Exercise 5

Resistance training will stimulate muscle hypertrophy by a variety of mechanisms. Which of the following is considered to be least likely, according to the text discussion?
A) Individual muscle cells and myofibrils increase in size.
B) Myofibrils in each cell may multiply.
C) Connective tissue in muscle may increase and thicken.
D) Muscle cells will increase water content by binding to increased glycogen.
E) Muscle fibers themselves increase rapidly in number.