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Title: what is the strongest muscle in your body...
Post by: dyslexic on December 21, 2009, 07:19:46 AM
relative to its size?


and I'm not talking about another muscle "in" your body, fags.



Try not to Google the answer either.
Title: Re: what is the strongest muscle in your body...
Post by: HICKSON on December 21, 2009, 07:29:08 AM
Bay would say, Grant's tongue.
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Post by: Stark on December 21, 2009, 07:31:28 AM
My traps - the most useless muscle and it has to be my strongest part.

I can lift easy with good form 5 -6 platest each side, ridicules but its my luck.
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Post by: dr.chimps on December 21, 2009, 07:32:21 AM
Bay would say, Grant's tongue.
LOL. Yeah, I also think it's the tongue.
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Post by: _bruce_ on December 21, 2009, 07:34:17 AM
Gluteus maximus
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Post by: CalvinH on December 21, 2009, 07:44:01 AM
My right wrist.
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Post by: Samourai Pizzacat on December 21, 2009, 07:48:01 AM
tongue, but as far as my workout muscles are concerned...hmm, spinus erector, quads.
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Post by: Spike on December 21, 2009, 07:48:14 AM
ass

1:03

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Post by: Tapeworm on December 21, 2009, 08:24:59 AM
Relative to size & for power I'd guess some inner ear muscle, whatever modulates the stapes or closes the escutcheon tube.  For sheer staying power I'd say the heart.  For overall contraction it would be the smooth muscle since I assume it all contracts at once top to bottom. 

Talking out my ass here.  Oh wait is it the anus?!
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Post by: kyomu on December 21, 2009, 12:40:26 PM
My lat is unproportionaly strong for my weight and size.
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Post by: Army of One on December 21, 2009, 12:50:17 PM
My Stapedius impresses all the women.
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Post by: Immortal_Technique on December 21, 2009, 12:52:39 PM
Isn't it: ass, jaw, then heart, or something, depending on how you measure it I guess.
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Post by: England_1 on December 21, 2009, 12:53:17 PM
The strongest muscle in the body is the masseter
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Post by: herne on December 21, 2009, 01:28:21 PM
Tongue.
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Post by: Pecs on December 21, 2009, 01:29:48 PM
the big toe??
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Post by: spinnis on December 21, 2009, 01:34:57 PM
I can put a few towels on my cock when its hard and it doesnt budge
Title: Re: what is the strongest muscle in your body...
Post by: dyslexic on December 21, 2009, 05:54:27 PM
I can put a few towels on my cock when its hard and it doesnt budge



Pics or it ain't true.... (no faggo) ;D
Title: Re: what is the strongest muscle in your body...
Post by: #1 Klaus fan on December 21, 2009, 06:22:46 PM
Biggest muscles relative to the use or need, however you say it, is the muscles that move the eyes. They are 10's or 100's of times stronger than thought to be needed. So lots of reserve.
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Post by: Spike on December 21, 2009, 06:27:08 PM
the big camel toe??
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Post by: BIG DUB on December 21, 2009, 07:10:27 PM
Kegel..
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Post by: Kwon on December 21, 2009, 08:49:21 PM
brachioradialis,,,
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Post by: TRIX on December 21, 2009, 08:53:20 PM
jaw muscle
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Post by: Hulkotron on December 21, 2009, 09:39:53 PM
The strongest muscle in the body is the masseter

This one is usually cited as the strongest, regarding pure force generation, but it is a bit sketchy because masseter is only really strong because of its lever arm (so a small muscle force produces a much larger external force).  If you define "strength" as the amount of force actually produced by the muscle (so like tension at the level of the tendon) then the strongest muscle is probably glut max or soleus.
Title: Re: what is the strongest muscle in your body...
Post by: dyslexic on December 21, 2009, 11:52:38 PM
My eyebrows bench 493 for 16 reps easy,


I think I saw that video on the training board.
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Post by: timfogarty on December 21, 2009, 11:58:23 PM
doesn't anyone know how to use teh google

The "strongest" human muscle

Since three factors affect muscular strength simultaneously and muscles never work individually, it is misleading to compare strength in individual muscles, and state that one is the "strongest". But below are several muscles whose strength is noteworthy for different reasons.

    * In ordinary parlance, muscular "strength" usually refers to the ability to exert a force on an external object—for example, lifting a weight. By this definition, the masseter or jaw muscle is the strongest. The 1992 Guinness Book of Records records the achievement of a bite strength of 4,337 N (975 lbf) for 2 seconds. What distinguishes the masseter is not anything special about the muscle itself, but its advantage in working against a much shorter lever arm than other muscles.
    * If "strength" refers to the force exerted by the muscle itself, e.g., on the place where it inserts into a bone, then the strongest muscles are those with the largest cross-sectional area. This is because the tension exerted by an individual skeletal muscle fiber does not vary much. Each fiber can exert a force on the order of 0.3 micronewton. By this definition, the strongest muscle of the body is usually said to be the quadriceps femoris or the gluteus maximus.
    * A shorter muscle will be stronger "pound for pound" (i.e., by weight) than a longer muscle. The myometrial layer of the uterus may be the strongest muscle by weight in the human body. At the time when an infant is delivered, the entire human uterus weighs about 1.1 kg (40 oz). During childbirth, the uterus exerts 100 to 400 N (25 to 100 lbf) of downward force with each contraction.
    * The external muscles of the eye are conspicuously large and strong in relation to the small size and weight of the eyeball. It is frequently said that they are "the strongest muscles for the job they have to do" and are sometimes claimed to be "100 times stronger than they need to be." However, eye movements (particularly saccades used on facial scanning and reading) do require high speed movements, and eye muscles are exercised nightly during rapid eye movement sleep.
    * The statement that "the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body" appears frequently in lists of surprising facts, but it is difficult to find any definition of "strength" that would make this statement true. Note that the tongue consists of sixteen muscles, not one.
    * The heart has a claim to being the muscle that performs the largest quantity of physical work in the course of a lifetime. Estimates of the power output of the human heart range from 1 to 5 watts. This is much less than the maximum power output of other muscles; for example, the quadriceps can produce over 100 watts, but only for a few minutes. The heart does its work continuously over an entire lifetime without pause, and thus does "outwork" other muscles. An output of one watt continuously for eighty years yields a total work output of two and a half gigajoules.
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Post by: JasonH on December 22, 2009, 12:12:38 AM
doesn't anyone know how to use teh google


We were specifically told not to use Google.  ;D
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Post by: timfogarty on December 22, 2009, 12:17:00 AM
We were specifically told not to use Google.  ;D

sorry, I rarely read the first few entries of a thread.   I really used wikipedia, but saying teh wiki isn't as catchy
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Post by: brent2741 on December 22, 2009, 09:02:05 AM
My Stapedius impresses all the women.
its the smallest
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Post by: Rami on December 22, 2009, 10:35:35 AM
Jaw musculature, anal sphincter? Don't know...