Muscle strength

Cycling: movement using muscle power

Muscle strength has two meanings:

• It fulfills the statically defined concept of the physical quantity force . Together with other forces, it can keep a body in balance . For example, in the case of an object held in the hand, the hand and arm counteract the weight of the object with a muscle force, so that the object remains in balance (at rest).
• Colloquially it is also referred to as muscle strength
  • both the energy possible through muscle shortening (which is a renewable energy source )
  • as well as their transformation when performing work (narrower terms: muscle work and muscle power drive ; English human powered ).

application

Muscle power is either used directly - for example when running - or in muscle power machines such as a bicycle. Their use is associated with physical activity and even hard work .

Important examples are:

• Go
• Workhorses
• bicycle
• treadmill
• Göpel
• Rowboat

Muscle strength also plays an essential role in most sporting disciplines.

References and comments

1. ↑ Istvan Szabo : Introduction to Technical Mechanics , Springer, 1975, p. 26.
2. ↑ It is usually not listed in energy balances and statistics, meaning that meaningful figures are missing.