Average Muscle breakdown by percentage (by weight) of the total
One often hears lower body accounts for 40% of total muscles mass. Going a step further, would it be possible to estimate for an average body, a given muscle group percentage of the total?
Is there a site which would list all muscles in the body by percentage?
For example:
Quadriceps are 23% of the total muscles.
Biceps are 10%....
Average, not precise, of course it would vary widely, just seeking averages.
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I have managed to find a study (http://jap.physiology.org/content/89/1/81) where they measured the skeletal muscle mass of lower and upper body. Their sample was "large and heterogeneous" (468 people) so it's probably safe to say this table represents the average numbers (in the "All women" and "All men" rows):
*SM stands for skeletal muscle.
However, I was unable to find the average muscle mass data for smaller muscle groups or even individual muscles.
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