Do a point you will gain muscle, but big muscles arnt always the strongest.
Muscles are made up of fibers that either contract or dont, training for explosiveness and power will cause you to add a little muscle, but the main purpose and result is to teach your body to recruit as many fibers as possible. Do a search on power and explosive lifting.
This is why its possible for someone who isn't as big as another guy to be stronger, e.g. (this is an exageration, please do a search to get more concrete facts) one guy has biceps twice as big as the other, but only 20% of his fibers fire(contract during say, a bicep curl), sure his arms are big because he has more fibers but still only 20% of those fire, the other guy has smaller biceps but maybe 90% of them fire, this his biceps are stronger and can curl more weight.
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