What percentage of body weight do muscles account for?

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What percentage of body weight do muscles account for?

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Midget40

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Midget40

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An average adult male is made up of 40–50% of skeletal muscle and an average adult female is made up of 30–40% as a percentage of body mass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle

This is just the amount of Skeletal muscle though, there is still Smooth and Cardiac muscles to be counted.

Will keep looking on those

Mar 30 2009, 9:59 AM

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An average male (70 kg) will have 30 kg of muscle mass.

http://www.kevinboone.com/biodat_stdman.html

Of course muscle mass as a proportion of body mass can be highly variable on an individual by individual basis depending on their diet, physical activity, genetic predispositions and many other factors.