do you know how much power your muscles can output

Question: do you know how much power your muscles can output
- Keywords:
  biology,
  human body,
  muscle
Asked by anon-384818 to Paul, Michael S, Martin M, Alexander dB on 20 Feb 2024.
- Martin McCoustra answered on 20 Feb 2024:
  
  This really depends on the size of the muscle and how quickly it is acting. Typically, it can range from 10 to 500 W/kg.
- Paul Laurance-Young answered on 21 Feb 2024:
  
  Depends on the muscle! Your little finger doesn’t have a lot of welly behind it but your leg muscles.. now they are something else. I’m an old fella but my leg muscles can still lift 190kg in the gym..just!
- Alexander De Bruin answered on 26 Feb 2024:
  
  it depends on the timescale of power output. I know for myself that I can output several 100s of Watts for hours while road cycling, and I can have much shorter and higher bursts of power when doing other activities like rock climbing
- Michael Schubert answered on 26 Feb 2024:
  
  Different muscles have different levels of power output. Of course strength and endurance are different for every person, but even within the same person, muscles have different abilities. For most people, the strongest muscles in their bodies are the ones you use for chewing (like the masseter and temporalis) or the ones in your upper legs (like the gluteus maximus and quadriceps). The tongue and heart are very strong, too, of course.

Question: do you know how much power your muscles can output