I'm curious to know... People say it's the tongue, but why? It's not the heart because it's made for endurace and not for strength. So what is it?! O_o;

i would say the muscle in the very bottom of your foot. It has to carry all of your body weight. i am skeptical though, because there are more than one muscle in your foot.

I think the tongue is the strongest because of proportion. Almost all it's made of is muscle, therefore, if you had a tongue the size or your bicep and they armwrestled... The tongue would win.

Lets ask Dr. Zoidberg, and his collegue, Haruko cosplaying as a nurse!
Z: Uh....the Ink pouch?
H: ~Hits him over the head with her guitar~
Me: OW...@_@; Ok, I get the idea....The brain is...~passes out~

Is the brain a muscle...? I don't know these things...

Oh, and I don't think. And I can confirm that my brain isn't the strongest muscle in my body, if the brain is a muscle.

Slicer, technically, the brain is mostly fat and contains no muscle...

They say the tongue is the strongest muscle... @.@ I think I have proof of that, but whatever. *coughs*

Judging by the cramps I get sometimes, I'd say my uterus is probably the strongest muscle in my body >.<; fun stuff.

There's also those little micromuscles that pull up the hairs to give you goosebumps... probably not that strong but still kinda cool.

It doesn't have any nervers either, because it can't fel pain.

...er...the brain has nerves...it just doesnt have the sensory to detect pain. Just like the inside of your gut can only feel the pain of stretching it, you can burn it and it will feel nothing, same with cutting.

Heart would be the answer, because after all your heart is a large muscle...or at least i remember hearing that

Got your tickets to the Gun Show *points with arms*, I would have to say your thigh, like upper leg is really strong.

Your heart is by far the most toned muscle in the body, but as for brute strength, your tongue wins (I've tested it against other muscles in every way I know how; indirectly, my tongue can lift my body without a problem).

Ever hear of a migraine?

Yup, our tongues are the strongest muscles that we have.

...I think the heart is second best.

*isn't real sure*

Naturally, with out training, your tri.... forgot the name. You're shoulderblade muscles. They support the arms, keep the back straight, and work out the neck.
If not that I'd go with the abs. I don't know about you but my abs take a hitting like no other part of my body.

I have a really strong back. Back and sides, actually; too bad they're not much good in fighting or anything. It's the kind of muscles you use for separating things with both hands, pushing stuff, and pushups (at least the way I do them).

I've read about soemthing called Masseter. It's like one of your jaw muscles. There's this guy in (what was it... Florida?) what can bite up to 925 lbs for two seconds. And other people say that the tongue is made up of 4 muscles. -.-;

So I still don't know...

Did you know that it actually is the temples (those little parts about an inch away from your eye, that is an opening in your skull). That and the sinuses attribute to that, I think that the ear0drums may also have have something to do with it...

Eh... My stomach is the strongest. *pats his six pack* Yep, I've spent many hours working on it during track session. I would say the tongue.

I Think the tounge is more then just one muscle. If you cut your tounge (not matter how many times) you'll be able to move each segment individually of the rest. Body Shaper people do it all the time. I actually had a friend who's tounge was cut twice so he had three parts.

Maybe it is the lower mandibul, you talk, cough, eat, and sometimes breath with it all the time.

What about the falangies? Seperate they're weak but when you use them all for a grip they're unbreakable.

i would say the muscles that on huge body builders start back at their ears. the ones that run from shoulder to neck. i can easily put 300+ pounds up on them.

Checked out the whole muscle trivia on Wikipedia. Here are the results...

It depends. Come on, we all knew that was coming. The strongest muscles depends on our method of measuring the muscle's strength.

Muscular strength is usually defined as the ability to exert force on an object. Apparently, the jaw muscles would be the strongest in that category. I wouldn't doubt that. The mechanical reason is that the jaw muscles have to work against a shorter lever than any others. Imagine the length of your arm versus the length of your jaw bone and you'll get what that means. That pairs with the amount of usage those muscles often get. I can actually prove that they strengthen personally. You see, I somehow came to be able to unlock my jaw in an awkward way. While that might seem impressive/disgusting/strange, it has a downside. It caused a bit of damage to my jaw bone and put stress on one side of my jaw. That stressed side of my jaw has a stronger muscle than the other, and carefully observing my face allows that to be seen.

If the strength of a muscle is measured as its exertion on its own without counting the bone disadvantage then the strongest muscles are the largest muscles in the body. The definition is a little more complicated than that, but I've chewed it down to something easier to recognize. The explanation is that an individual skeletal muscle fiber is only capable of exerting a certain amount of force. Length doesn't matter and the number doesn't vary between fibers. Note that the heart is not made of skeletal muscle. The strongest muscles by this definition are the quadriceps and the ones on our rear.

Another definition is force in relation to the muscle's weight. A shorter muscle would be stronger than a longer one if it can exert more force. Remember that fiber strength doesn't vary over length. Pound for pound, the uterus exerts the most force in the body. At childbirth, the uterus can exert 25 to 100 pounds with each contraction. @_@;

The muscles that control the eyeballs are said to be surprisingly strong. They're larger and stronger than they have to be in comparison to the negligible mass of our eyeballs. However, this might be attributed to the fact our eye movements have to be quick.

A lot of people were right in their own way in the end. Everyone... except the people sticking with the tongue and heart. The tongue has apparently been cited as the strongest muscle in the body continuously and is often included in lists of surprising facts. That is far from correct. People would have a hard time finding a context under which the tongue is the strongest muscle when compared to the others. It seems the only way to prove its strength is by asking for the strongest muscle at birth, which may not be correct anyways.

The heart lacks the energy output of the other muscles. The quadriceps can output 100 watts of power for a few minutes before becoming exhausted. The heart can only produce from 1 to 5 watts per beat. Our hearts must beat from the beginning to the end of our lives, though. This means that the heart has endurance that other muscles lack and can continue putting out measly watts for years on end.

I tried finding out whether Hax and Shugo were correct about the brain or not. The truth is a little obscure after all. I used to read that the brain has no ability to feel pain exposure within in terms of physical contact. It does contain major nerves that break out to process signals from other areas of the body. One example would be the nerve that handles sensing the strain on our facial muscles, which splits into three lines as it goes out from the brain.

What we currently know? I couldn't figure it out. Apparently, we can't feel direct contact at the brain. We can feel overactivity from major nerves though. That's usually linked to migranes and headaches. Pressure within the brain's fluid can also cause pain. I looked it up because I remembered aneurysms tend to cause strong headaches. That's probably linked with increased pressure, too.

I thought the tongue was the strongest muscle in your body.

The tongue may be the strongest muscle, but for me, its my legs and back. God bless track and the hell the coaches put one threw to get ready for meets.

my strongest muscles are my shoulders, biceps, triceps, and calfs (yay weightlifting).