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> There is physical conditioning needed to utilize that strength without hurting yourself, but how strong you are is about neural pathways in your muscles, and
by danmaz74 8y ago
> There is physical conditioning needed to utilize that strength without hurting yourself, but how strong you are is about neural pathways in your muscles, and how they fire, not the muscle itself. Your muscles are actually strong enough to rip the tendons from your bones.
Citation needed. Training for strength also increases your muscle mass, I'm not ready to believe that strength is only about neural pathways.
- jimmy1 8y agoThink of olympic lifters. Pyyros Dimas, a guy who isn't "huge" (compared to say football players or body builders) won a Gold for the clean and jerk at 215 kgs (474 lbs) in the 85kg weight class (187 lbs). There is something else going on there besides muscle mass when a <187 lb guy can throw up almost 500 pounds completely over his head from the ground. Here's a good article on the impact of your neural pathways on strength: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170710091652.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170710091652.h... from the article: > Jenkins found evidence that the nervous system activates more of those motor neurons -- or excites them more frequently -- when subjected to high-load training. That increased excitation could account for the greater strength gains despite comparable growth in muscle mass. Adrenaline does wonders for the excitation-induced stimulation of the skeletal muscle system
- stonecraftwolf 8y agoIt’s also the explanation for noob gains (getting much, much stronger in the first 6 months of lifting or so, then tapering off as your ability to recruit muscle catches up with the muscle you already have). If you’ve ever lifted, the feeling of learning to use your body more efficiently is pretty obvious.