Is it possible to gain strength without gaining muscle size?

>>42604380
It is, when you just start weight lifting. There's something called neuronal adaption:

>Now, early studies repeatedly found the following phenomenon: when people started lifting weights, they would increase their strength without significant/any increases in muscle mass. This was taken to mean that the body first made improvements in neural mechanisms with gains in muscle mass coming later.
> Simply, when you start lifting weights, you get stronger initially without necessarily getting bigger. Which is great if your goal is to get stronger without increasing muscle mass but not so great if your goal is to get jakked as quickly as possible. But ultimately you sort of don’t have a choice in the matter, you have to go through the neural adaptations one way or another before the real gains muscle mass start to occur/show up.

>>42604398
awful post

>>42604380
yes. why would you?

>>42604380
no

>>42604445
for mma

No
also powerlifting is a meme on who can cheat the best on form without the judges going "hol' up"

>>42604380
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=can+i+get+stronger+without+increase+in+muscle+mass