What are the processes involved in muscle growth and how is it maintained?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy, http://muscle.ucsd.edu/musintro/hypertrophy.shtml (not much on this topic in the textbook, unless I completely
missed it)
Resistance exercise stimulates muscle protein synthesis (biomechanics of skeletal muscles and body movement can easily relate with the contraction cycle)
Increased demand leads to protein synthesis mechanisms being upregulated, with new
proteins being incorporated in existing myofibrils in a muscle fibre

What causes muscle fatigue during exercise?

Low pH from lactic acid build up can cause fatigue (perhaps talk about anaerobic respiration for the production of ATP and its involvement with the contraction cycle)
May be caused by failure at the NMJ or the CNS (e.g. ACh not synthesised enough to
keep up with neurotransmitter release)
Lack of ATP not a limiting factor, with other factors such as glycogen depletion causing
fatigue
This one could be interesting, although it seems to go a lot into pathophysiology

Why does exercise lead to weight loss?

Aerobic respiration produces ATP from carbohydrates and fats (aerobic exercise)
6O2 +C6 H12 O6 6CO2 +6H2 O+ATP carbohydrates are converted into water, and
carbon dioxide (which we exhale and hence lose from the body)
ATP used in the contraction cycle of muscles myosin is an ATPase which uses ATP to
generate movement
Might be involved in terms of biochemistry and delves into metabolism, but thought it
may be interesting

Dope animation:

http://tabletopwhale.com/img/posts/08-12-14.gif

Crash Course on Muscle Cells:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktv-CaOt6UQ a lot of content is fit into the 10

minutes, so a bunch of stuff we talked about earlier might be achievable within the
timeframe