Larger muscles will produce more force, since they are stronger
muscles (strength is the ability to exert force). The point of
resistance training is to exert force. Increase your muscles size,
and it will produce more force. However, that is not the only way to
increase your muscles ability to exert force. You can improve your
neuromuscular system. Which is why some people believe that strength
and size are not related. Often you'll come across someone who claims
that they train to build larger muscles, that they are not concerned
with strength because they are not interested in powerlifting.
However, they are not understanding "weight training". How can a
person who believes that there is no relationship between size and
strength, proceed with their training?

Muscle Mass vs Muscle Strength


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Do you workout too long or too often?

Are you working too hard in the gym?

Yes, you do have to work hard to build muscle and strength, but if
you are overtraining then you effort will be wasted and your reward
will be stagnation.

"But how can I tell if I overtraining", you might ask, "is there
an overtraining test?".

Overtraining Test: Are You Overtraining?

There are two things that will keep your muscles from growing bigger
and stronger, they are:

1) Overtraining

2) Undertraining

The key is finding a workout plan that stimulates each muscle group
often enough so they don't atrophy before your next workout, but you
also need to make sure you don't work them so often that they can't
recover.

Muscle Recovery Workout Plan

There's an ongoing debate among exercise physiologists regarding the
superiority of one exercise over another. Of course, there are so
many variables that it's impossible to say with any certainty if
the pulldown beats out the horizontal row. More often than not, it's
the effort one puts into an exercise which will determine its
efficacy. Almost any exercise for a particular bodypart will yield
results if performed with enough intensity. However, when examining
the anabolic effects of an exercise - that's a different story.

The Best Bodybuilding Exercise