Question about veins... no, not vascularity

[Big_BK]

Ok i have no idea where to put this but there are alot of smart guys on here and it might be relevant to some of you. Now i am basically wondering if it is possible to "grow" new veins. May sound like a stupid question but i am serious. My reasoning without any knowledge at all or an answer is yes because if your muscle tissue keeps growing it will require more blood to go to the muscles. Are we born with a set amount of veins or do we aquire new ones? Because ive been putting on alot of size and noticing new veins i never noticed before and my bf is higher if anything.

 

[swole]

you're not crazy lol

i've wondered the same thing

like as my muscle growns does the vein grow or expand like a tree root? or just get wider?

 

[kg2105]

You do not acquire new veins.. increasing muscle mass has the tendency to increase the size and thickness of the circulatory system, including the thickness of the veins, and heart too. When you exercise your muscles with high intensity resistance training, they need a huge volume of blood delivered to them very fast to deal with clearing out metabolic waste products, and providing nutrients to the muscles.

 

[wolfman87]

You do not acquire new veins.. increasing muscle mass has the tendency to increase the size and thickness of the circulatory system, including the thickness of the veins, and heart too. When you exercise your muscles with high intensity resistance training, they need a huge volume of blood delivered to them very fast to deal with clearing out metabolic waste products, and providing nutrients to the muscles.

i believe you will acquire more capillaries (not sure of the term) to support your new muscle growth but it is a slow process in making them larger to become smaller veins themselves. but yes as you grow muscle and you need to transport more waste and nutrients to and from your muscle they will expand into smaller veins eventually and continue to grow with you. it's slow, very slow going however.

edit: infact i have a theory that if you can generate more capillaries and expand them faster it allows you to retain the muscle gained over a cycle better. it's like an internal infrastructure, the more you have to transport nutrients and waste the better. how one would go about doing this i have no idea at the moment. my best guess is high intensity, short bursts of running, AKA sprinting. lol

 

[sensational]

i believe you will acquire more capillaries (not sure of the term) to support your new muscle growth but it is a slow process in making them larger to become smaller veins themselves. but yes as you grow muscle and you need to transport more waste and nutrients to and from your muscle they will expand into smaller veins eventually and continue to grow with you. it's slow, very slow going however.

edit: infact i have a theory that if you can generate more capillaries and expand them faster it allows you to retain the muscle gained over a cycle better. it's like an internal infrastructure, the more you have to transport nutrients and waste the better. how one would go about doing this i have no idea at the moment. my best guess is high intensity, short bursts of running, AKA sprinting. lol

No on new veins.

Yes on capillaries.

Its called increased capillarization and it generally correlates with the fitness of a muscle. If a muscle is larger and in good shape, it requires more nutrients and O2 etc...so the body will grow new capillaries.

Does that help at all?

 

[the_alcatraz]

No on new veins.

Yes on capillaries.

Its called increased capillarization and it generally correlates with the fitness of a muscle. If a muscle is larger and in good shape, it requires more nutrients and O2 etc...so the body will grow new capillaries.

Does that help at all?

This seems like a pretty reasonable answer.

 

[Big_BK]

Anybody have some scientific proof?

 

[wolfman87]

i thought that the capillaries eventually joined together to form blood vessels and then eventually those grow into veins as your body grows and matures. i'm not sure if i got the terms right but that's the process i remember from biology. your body is constantly changing and it has to adapt itself to support itself if that makes sense. idk that's just what i remember i could be wrong but i don't think so.

 

[sensational]

Anybody have some scientific proof?

I'll look it up, but in my exercise science class we went over it; the professor stated that a good portion of noticeable fitness improvements were due to increased capillarization.

I'm pretty sure 99% that this is the correct physiological mechanism.

That being said, there are hundreds, if not thousands of unnamed blood vessels, so it is probably possible to grow blood vessels that function as veins or arteries to a degree. I am sure that the body, unless it is pathological, is not going to grow a second saphenous vein, or a second vena cava etc...

Hope this helps, ill do a quick search through my textbooks and post again.

 

[Big_BK]

Yeah im not talking about the big suckers just the little ones all over my bi's and tri's. Not the garden hose one.

 

[wolfman87]

^+1

 

[Big_Joe]

Yes you can get new veins. Many types of cancer do this. The cancer tumor puts out hormones that cause veins to grow into the tumor. So it these hormones that are needed for your body to grow new veins.

I did do some quick searching on google and pubmed for this but there is so much info on cancer and veins that I couldn't find what I wanted in the time I gave to find it.

 

[Wulfgar]

^^^ exactly
Think of vascularization as somewhat of a support network for newly aquired muscle. Just like the new nueral networks that we aquire. New muscle needs all those things to survive and the body creates them as we gain size

 

[702daswoll1]

Veins are cool.