Here you go, even studies showing that size and strength are closely correlated.
Or even more studies, with deeper analysis and actually slightly favorable for your point, though the weak correlation is just limited to untrained individuals. The more advanced person gets the stronger the correlation gets.
Ok… those studies are saying that muscle growth is correlated with strength gains. Yes, I agree with you on this. Those articles do not disprove the existence of dense muscle. Maybe there’s been a misunderstanding. I’m not saying that size increase doesn’t lead to strength gains, that would be silly.
All I’m saying is, that it’s possible to end up with “dense muscle”, or “skinny strong”, which might be an undesirable / desirable outcome for some people depending on what they actually want. I was pointing out the difference for people who haven’t started any strength training at all yet, so they can make informed decisions about their research and routines. Either choice is a good one, it’s entirely personal preference.
Fair, probably misunderstanding then, because usually people referring to both terms usually do ignore strength and size correlation.
Though that’s just overly complicating it for beginners.
Just the most basic resistance training is more than enough to build size, strength and density all at the same time.
Skinny strong is just someone who has maxmimized their strength potential or has some leverage advantage due to genetics.
Yeah sure someone can train to become skinny strong by doing strength focused training(low rep range), but that caps out at some point as we can see from powerlifters who alternate training blocks between strength and hypertohy training.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40680785/
Here you go, even studies showing that size and strength are closely correlated.
Or even more studies, with deeper analysis and actually slightly favorable for your point, though the weak correlation is just limited to untrained individuals. The more advanced person gets the stronger the correlation gets.
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/correlation-strength-hypertrophy/
Ok… those studies are saying that muscle growth is correlated with strength gains. Yes, I agree with you on this. Those articles do not disprove the existence of dense muscle. Maybe there’s been a misunderstanding. I’m not saying that size increase doesn’t lead to strength gains, that would be silly.
All I’m saying is, that it’s possible to end up with “dense muscle”, or “skinny strong”, which might be an undesirable / desirable outcome for some people depending on what they actually want. I was pointing out the difference for people who haven’t started any strength training at all yet, so they can make informed decisions about their research and routines. Either choice is a good one, it’s entirely personal preference.
Fair, probably misunderstanding then, because usually people referring to both terms usually do ignore strength and size correlation.
Though that’s just overly complicating it for beginners. Just the most basic resistance training is more than enough to build size, strength and density all at the same time.
Skinny strong is just someone who has maxmimized their strength potential or has some leverage advantage due to genetics. Yeah sure someone can train to become skinny strong by doing strength focused training(low rep range), but that caps out at some point as we can see from powerlifters who alternate training blocks between strength and hypertohy training.