This method gives you a two fold benefit,
- When you so choose, you operate at the peak human condition. Not superhuman (as that would shatter your bones, ligaments, muscles ...) but peak human. This is very important for adventurers, soldiers, crime fighters, fire fighters, messengers ..., basically anybody who needs to be able to physically perform at high level intermittently.
- (The more advantageous one) You can maintain this peak condition for the duration independentlong periods of time regardless your actual physical state.
If you can channel this virtual muscle mass, you are also able to avoid the drawbacks of exhaustion, by gradually exhausting the virtual muscles at no expense to your physical body. I.e. your sugar levels, lactic acid level, and other markers of exhaustion do not change the way they would had you used your actual muscles.
ModelTwo model situation: CattleImagine a fire fighter who is being raisedcharged with, for the purposesexample of "powering up fire fighters", each firefighter is at all time being "charged" to allow operating at a48 hours worth of peak human condition for at least 48 hours without a need for restvirtual muscles. During normal operation It helps him in daily operations (a fire occurs) they arrive at the scene and can channel this virtual musclewhen he needs to break down doorspry open a car door, carry out the victims, run in and out of burning buildings ...(Even in full sprint his oxygen depletion stays at rest state, as the virtual muscles are those burning the extra oxygen) or perhaps even handling a hose with water pressure, he would otherwise be unable to handle. InThis boon is especially noticeable in case of prolonged activity. Imagine a natural disaster, they will be able to operate atsuch as flooding, with people trapped under the site removing rubble, transporting, peopleinside buildings and materialvarious currents, now imagine a unit of emergency responders who can operate at peak human conditionfull speed, full strain for 24 or even more hours (essentially until brain needs a rest). Every mundane physical activity that needs to be performed can be performed by these people for tens of hours straight. Have you ever shoveled rubble? You get tired in under an hour. These guys, thus being a tremendous benefit13 hours later, they are still going fresh.
SameThis would be a godsend for policemen, soldier, mountain rescue ..everyone who relies in his physical condition.
Another application that came to mind a messengerTo put it into perspective per this article: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00947.2009
Run a human body can theoretically endure a run speed of 69 kmph is physically possible(Usain Bolt in his world record 100m sprint maxed out around 45 kmph). Imagine you can maintain this speed for 2421 hours. In under a day this, a charged messenger cancould run from Paris to Rome a distance of 1436 km (per google maps) less then 7 hours longer then via a car.
EDIT: Wrote the first version on mobile, so I expanded a little and cleaned it up.