SIZE IS NOT STRENGTH
Question from Quora:If you build muscle do you automatically get stronger?
’Sup, bruh, It sure helps, but nope.
Go to any construction site, especially in a poor neighborhood, and there’s always a weird lanky dude full of bones that is stronger than anyone around, just built differently. It’s a tale as old as time.
Strength is a brain thing.
Strength is not about having big muscles, although it helps, you already have a lot of muscle in your body that you simply don't know how to use, to get stronger is about awakening the connection between your brain and the motor units you already have by putting stress in your central and peripheral nervous system through resistance training.
Just take John Haack, my favorite Powerlifter, the kid is deadlifting 400KG conventional, no straps nor hook grip, while weighing 90kg. BONKERS
Myofibrillar hypertrophy helps.
Myofibrillar hypertrophy, the one you achieve by introducing mechanical tension over extended periods of time and nurturing the muscle with the proper amino acids after introducing the stimulus will build more actual contractile tissue and increase your strength potential.
Emphasis on POTENTIAL, strength is still a brain thing, you need to teach your body how to recruit that tissue.
The more you train the stronger you get.
Hypertrophy training, building muscle, is 1 hour of stimulus vs 71 hours of recovery, muscle grows when you rest not in training.
For strength training, building strength, recovery can take a matter of HOURS, you can hit 5 sets of 3 with 85% of your 1RM twice a day if you have the guts to do it, the actual neurological adaptation will occur during sleep though, but in strength, more stimulus is ALWAYS more gainz, as long as you survive it.
Expressing Strength is all about technique.
To express strength, to move heavier shit, it's first a matter of technique, coordination, and establishing the right leverages, you can move heavier loads if you position yourself correctly, if you refine your technique.
Accessing your absolute maximum strength is all about aggressiveness.
If you want to move as much weight as you can, you gotta do it as fast as you possibly can while keeping solid technique, you gotta do it with SPEED in mind, acceleration is KEY, you gotta attack the weights, and be as aggressive as you can.
So my brothers and sisters of the IRON PATH, let me know what you think about this, I love discussing this kinda shit, and don't forget, it's time to get FREAKING STRONG!
STRENGTH IS NEVER A WEAKNESS!
Big KISS,
THE POTATO MAN
I think as you gain muscle size you will gain some strength just not NEARLY. as much as many think. Look at peak Ronnie Coleman vs peak Mitchell Hooper, ask the masses who is stronger and by how much, people would be shocked.
Size and strength are heavily conflated. Also mental game is soooo huge. For the most part my mental game is really good for lifting, as some people i know say "It's that engineer's brain, it is all just math, apply it and do it". I see the results of a poor mental game all the time at the gym.
Also while not in construction, my mothers fsther was a short end of average skinny dude and he was a LUMBER JACK (and he's ok.... yeah i cant help it gotta reference Montey Python) yeah once he hit his mid 30's he filled out and was broad shouldered for his height, but okd pics he was skinny AF and slung wood all day, years later as an architect or late in life as a investment guru he was CRAZY STRONG! My fathers late stepdad, he was a cement finisher for 30 years, OKFG his grip was insane, at my powerlifting peak he could crush my grip the way i could a childs, and he didnt look like much, completely average skinny guy with a beer belly. And Jay Cutlers forearms.
They did crazy stuff without being BIG. When inwas in school i got well over a 300lb bench at 150lb, inwas stocky and really short. The mind can do some crazy shit!! Having some muscle behind it also helps.