i’ve watched a ty video comparing Mariusz Pudzianowski and Kyriakos Grizzly, and it was said that even tho Grizzly had way more pure muscle mass, his powerlifting scores were lower. How is it possible that with more muscle mass he didn’t lift more?
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It also depends on the muscles pennation angle.
It doesnt work on all the muscles in the body, in some It works way more, in some way less.
The amount of muscle you can put on depends also on how much stretch mediated hypertrophy you can get.
While “normal” hypertrophy puts new muscles fibers in parallel, smh puts them in series, at a certain point the room on the muscle starts to be filled up and the muscle fibers starts changing their direction, a bigger angle between the muscle and the tendon allows a longer muscle and so a major number of fibers.
Still the force that can be generated by the single fibers stays the same but the more the angle increases the less force goes from every single fiber to the tendon.
This is the reason why many strongmen/powerlifters are way smaller than bodybuilder but are also way stronger.
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