Why doe muscle size does not necessarily correlate with muscle strength?

Question

As the title says. Why does hypertrophy (growing muscle tissue in size) does not correlate with the strength of the individuals training for strength (as in heavy weight lifting, without growing muscle tissue)?

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Answer 1

It does. If nothing else changes except muscles getting bigger, that person will get stronger. But there are many other factors that contribute to strength, like size and proportion, nerve density and activation etc… Some of these can be trained (like nerve activation) and this can mean a smaller person may be much stronger than a larger person.