What is the difference between strength training and muscle training?

The human body must rely on muscles to exert strength, because muscles have strong expansion and contraction capabilities, can release strength explosively, and provide power for people to move. However, muscle strength is not constant and requires continuous practice to enhance. The focus of practice is different and is mainly divided into strength training and muscle training. Let's take a look at the differences between strength training and muscle training.

Bodybuilding focuses more on endurance than strength, but the difference is not that big. A person without muscles certainly has no strength. No matter how thin a person looks, if he is strong, he must have muscles, and his muscles must be of good quality. If he is fat and has no muscles, he definitely does not have strength.

1. Strength is related to the size and quality of muscles. Under the same quality, muscle size and strength are directly proportional.

2. The muscles that bodybuilding pursues are volume, lines, and proportions, not strength. But if you want to have big muscles, you must train hard with heavy weights, so your strength will not be bad.

3. To have great strength you must be big. It is impossible to maintain a thin body and yet have superhuman strength. This is why all strength-related competitions are divided into weight classes.

4. Professional fitness personnel have very high muscle quality, so among people with the same muscle volume, or among people in the same weight class, his strength is very strong, but his strength does not lie in his absolute strength, but in his explosive power and fighting skills.

5. The striking force during fighting is related to the absolute muscle strength of the body, striking speed, and striking skills, and is not determined by a single factor.

6. If the purpose of normal training is to increase strength, the positive pyramid method is used, which is the method of increasing weight progressively. The inverted pyramid method used for the purpose of increasing muscle mass is to gradually reduce the weight until you reach maximum effort. Explosive power training is mainly based on fast and multiple repetitions with small to medium weights. The weight remains unchanged, and the main focus is on the speed of force development.