Bit of a weird question. How is it that that people gain strength without getting relatively bigger or more muscle.
Imagine I can bench 100kg or 225lb for a 1 rep max. Now imagine I train hard and now can lift the same weight for 3 reps.
Its unlikely your muscles have gotten three times bigger.
What has actually changed in the body to enable this?
In: Biology
Would love to hear is this what I’m writing is proven.
When I was in gymnasium we used to arm wrestle a lot.
One guy didn’t appear to have much muscles (and it wasn’t hidden beneath layers of fat), yet he was so strong. I assumed that 1cm^(2) of his muscle cross section was certainly stronger than 1cm^(2) of others. If there is such thing in biology I don’t know but that was my impression.
I don’t know if everyone’s single muscle fiber is same strength but it appears not.
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