Let's hear it from the Great Explainer himself, for even he bought into this myth.
>And all matter is a mixture of positive protons and negative electrons which are attracting and repelling with this great force. So perfect is the balance however, that when you stand near someone else you don't feel any force at all. If there were even a little bit of unbalance you would know it. If you were standing at arm's length from someone and each of you had one percent more electrons than protons, the repelling force would be incredible. How great? Enough to lift the Empire State building? No! To lift Mount Everest? No! The repulsion would be enough to lift a "weight" equal to that of the entire earth!
Who in their right mind assesses strength like this? Do you say an ant is stronger than an elephant? Absolutely not. An ant can only exert such proportionate force due to its small size. An elephant, due to its larger size, can exert much larger raw power than an ant ever could. The reasoning is that these two animals exist on totally different scales of nature. So comparing their strengths relatively simply doesn't work. You could consider, say, allometric scaling see e.g. and pic rel
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18172672/
to me it seems pretty obvious that a faster metabolic rate affords one the luxury of more explosive power outputs.