Benefit of exercise, specifically the weightlifting is to boost the muscle mass, but surely don't expect the instant effect. More consistent training with the better nutrients are needed even more. So here let's see more signs if you've managed to make your routine produce muscle mass.
First you may think if weight gain is part of it, but of course that's not always the case.
You can't measure it on scale, as the body power and shape of body should give more clue for this case.
Yes the improvement in strength, as the easiest sign to notice.
Simply see that weightlifting, for example, can done done in more repetition than before.
When body adapts to new activity psychically then it could be forced stronger.
The indication of muscle growth like more stamina thus you won't be tired easily like before.
It seems that your exercise can be done easier when you are success in building the muscle as the impact of your training.
The body can run more efficient, in terms of endurance against fatigue, and recover faster. And the body seems better at the recovery.
So surely make training feel easier, and more improvement in duration, weights you can lift, and more repetition.
You may not see them directly about the "power up" of muscle fiber inside the body.
Yes the ideal gain of weight as result of doing exercise, due to the muscle that grow.
More muscle mass than body fat, even though not too significant form the outside.
Thanks to intense training activity, the body may adapt with the increase of glycogen amount within your body.
The muscle you've built can relate to more ideal posture, which basically affects the cores and back bone.
The optimal cores can help for ideal balance, and support the back bones, plus reduce the pressure to body joints.
So when you stand up for long, get less tired.
The ideal posture surely improve the appearance and confidence, since body posture may have correlation with injury risk and back pain.
The "muscle pump" is the sensation you can feel too, as you feel the blood flow to the muscle during certain time.
Once again, with the muscle fiber to grow because you have stimulated them with training.
Certainly try to maximizing result with more focus for method like the use of barbell, and also bodyweight for strength to improve.
The gradual training you do can be actually helpful and certainly for the improvement you can count from intensity and reps you can endure more.
And certainly the best foods source especially enough protein as obvious reason when you need to build muscle.
