This makes all the difference with a lean meat like turkey: With each wallop, musclefibers and connective tissue break down and the meat becomes ever more tender.
The number of musclefibers that tested positive for dystrophin increased 47% in patients who had been receiving eteplirsen since the beginning of the study and 38% in the patients who started on placebo and switched to eteplirsen after 24 weeks.
Another common type of massage, so-called deep tissue, tends to be more targeted to problem muscles and includes techniques such as acupressure, trigger-point work (which focuses on little knots of muscle) and "deep transverse friction" where the therapist moves back and forth over musclefibers to break up scar tissue.
Super lifehacker Tim Ferriss is a bit of a masochist, the kind of guy who will ask doctors to drill a chunk of muscle out of his leg to analyze the fibers.