Muscle size not related to its strength: Study

By: IANS | New York | Published:November 5, 2016 2:27 pm

There is a loss of muscle mass with detraining, yet often a maintaining muscle strength. (Source: File)

An increase in muscle size with exercise may not be directly related to an increase in muscle strength, suggests a recent study. Researchers suggested that size and muscle strength may actually be separate phenomena.

The researchers in the study published in the journal Muscle and Nerve, noted that there is a weak correlation between change in muscle size and change in muscle strength following training.

Also, there is a loss of muscle mass with detraining, yet often a maintaining muscle strength. Furthermore, similar muscle growth can occur with low load or high load resistance training, yet there are divergent results in strength.

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“Neural adaptations are contributing first with muscle growth playing a more prominent role in the latter portion of a training program: however, there is little direct evidence that this is actually true in an adult partaking in a resistance training program,” said Jeremy Loenneke, Researcher at the University of Mississippi, Mississippi.