Dr. Layne Norton

That's a bigger potential.

Take somebody who's a power lifter.

All things being equal, if they have more muscle mass, they will be stronger, okay?

And one of the things I tell people is, well, if muscle mass doesn't matter for powerlifting, then I'm just going to lose 40 pounds.

Drop down to whatever weight class I need to hit world records.

No, it matters.

Mass moves mass.

But I think people – for example, me, I held a world record squat for almost a year.

I hit 668 pounds in 2015 at IPF Worlds.

And –

I don't – I've got good legs by most people's standards.

But if you put me on a bodybuilding stage, I'll never have the best sets of legs on stage.

And they'll see somebody who has really great legs who only squats 500 pounds.

And the conclusion will be, okay, well, muscle mass doesn't matter for strength.

No, because that person for them, because I don't know what their motor neuron recruitment is like.

I don't know all that kind of stuff.

But all things being equal, they have less muscle.

They'd be weaker.

They had more muscle.

They'd be stronger.