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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdweller00" data-source="post: 8492312" data-attributes="member: 6778479">Pretty much nope all around.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Anatomically speaking, what we call physical strength is based on muscle; possible also including the learned ability to effectively apply muscle.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The traits that fall under Dexterity involve fine motor coordination, opposition muscles, suppleness of ligaments and tendons, and the brain's ability to learn, gauge, and/or coordinate movements.  It has little to do with bone, possibly barring some types of injury or disease conditions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Constitution involves a range of characteristics such as effective vasculature, nutrition, immune health, condition of internal organs, possibly also adaptations that occur as a result of endurance training.  In some cases extra muscle is BAD for your health - cardiomegaly, or an enlarged heart.</li> </ul>Muscles need energy to contract - but limiting factors are often tissue (or motor protein) integrity or the ability of the body to supply oxygen to maintain aerobic respiration not the amount of energy stored in the body.  Output is bounded, of course, by the amount and type of muscle tissue.</blockquote>