scientificamerican.com
> For 11 minutes a day, 5 days a week, they sat completely still and focused their entire mental effort on pretending to flex their muscles. When the casts were removed, the volunteers that did mental exercises had wrist muscles that were two times stronger than those that had done nothing at all.
There have been several studies on this. It is actually true. However the benefits compared to actually working out are over double that of meditation's.
>why move your muscles when you can PRETEND to move your muscles
Gee, I fucking wonder. Go back to Imaginationland, Butters.
I remember reading that over a decade ago in a Ripley's Believe it or not book I had as a kid. Pretty interesting stuff, though I wonder if working out obsoletes doing the meditation on top of it.
You're supposed to do both
>Work out for real til failure
>imagine working out during rest days to get those sweet mental gains
>double your gains
How do you pretend to move muscles? The muscles are either moving or aren't.
exactly. Why not just do both? Seriously, mental AND brain gains
>pretending to flex their muscles
How do you pretend to flex your muscles?
M I N D
M U S C L E
C O N N E C T I O N
It's a (((study))) to make soyo sipping faggots feel good about their lack of strength. Psycho-somatic influence on the nervous system is real, but you also get that same effect from just convincing yourself that you're going to be able to hit your next PR. That's all it is, but they turned it into a daily routine to burn another 15 minutes out of their days because they're too pussy to do anything real for more than that amount of time.
That is probably more related to the ability to utilize the muscles involved because of tightened neural-muscular pathways. The actual muscle strength is likely the same, but since the mental ability to contract the muscle is maintained, you can get more out of it. It's sort of like mentally practicing swinging a baseball bat. You develop a dirt of muscle memory.
No but seriously what do you do? How do you pretend to move without moving? I understand kinesthetic visualization, but that doesn't cause fucking inflammation or anything.
I asked myself the same damn thing user, I have no clue how you are supposed to do that. Either you flex them or you dont, how can you pretend to do it ?
Both groups were wearing casts for a whole month.
>two times stronger than those that had done nothing at all
sounds impressive until you realize that group B physically could not move and experienced muscular atrophy. Maybe useful as a prehab tool, but of no utility to anyone interested in strength or hypertrophy training from a healthy baseline.
It's legitimately pretending. They're convincing people that they can visualize their body within their mind completely, and then make the images move in their head. It's nonsense, it's a fucking scam to make people feel better about being sedentary faggots. Literally a shill post.
Found the NPCs. Can you guys at least visualize something?
This I would imagine
Interesting, just realized that I really can't imagine colors for some reason.
It works for healthy people too
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
>12 weeks (15 min per day, 5 days per week)
>Normal movement + mental groups increased strength by 35%
>Normal movement + training groups increased strength by 53%
>Normal movement groups shows no increase
>The improvement in muscle strength for trained groups was accompanied by significant increases in electroencephalogram-derived cortical potential, a measure previously shown to be directly related to control of voluntary muscle contractions.
>We conclude that the mental training employed by this study enhances the cortical output signal, which drives the muscles to a higher activation level and increases strength.
Someone who has already trained for a while probably already has an adapted CNS, but for someone just starting it might be beneficial. Haven't found a training + mental study yet to see what that does.
So it would make sense to combine these two.
I think nether talked about this too
There are some interesting previous claims in this line. People who visualized their golf swings in POW camps and got better when they were out.
IF there is anything to it I don't know why you wouldn't do both.
It would make more sense to just flex them, that's what some crazy people talk about (don't even ask how I found this shit)
amp.reddit.com
Imagined the number 6
Im the guy who questioned how to pretend to flex, I think I got it
Have you ever tried to move a body part? Like your pecs? It's like that, when you can't do it easily so you just try to feel it with your mind
Flex your biceps, do it a lot of times and each time try to remember the feeling of flexing it, in time I think you can even flex your arms without doing the contraction movement
This is a nice hobby actually, trying to strengthen the mindmuscle connection to a point you can control every part of your body without moving it, just with your mind
I wish I discovered this when I was still in school, I could waste hours having fun with trying to flex
>No but seriously what do you do? How do you pretend to move without moving?
You have to use your memory and visualization user, use all the 5 basic senses, specially the tact
ofc it works and is proven to do so, it is called visualization and all pro athletes do it. just look at world class skiers they always do it before races.
>Imagined the number 6
that means your retarded, you were supposed to imagine a star.
ok ok ok. but the real question is: CAN I GROW MY DICK LIKE THIS OP?
>that means your retarded, you were supposed to imagine a star.
Is this bait?
between 4 and 5
hes making a joke because you added a 'the' in there that made the sentence mean you imagined the number 6, and not the sixth image.
>Imagined to flex and instantly felt tingling in whole body
>woah think I got stronger anons
Sometimes I wonder if I really have autism
from my experience, visualization in the gym can have significant effects (actually pushing more reps)
though i never really tried doing it outside, i just flex in the mirror
What if I am on NoFAP but Just imagine to watch porn and imaginary fapping? Would I gain/lose something with this?
>I am on NoFAP
imagine NOT fapping, dumbass
Mind muscle connection can give you 12% better gains, but this imagening is also something they do with sleep meditation, flexing your muscles one by on from toe to head, and repeat but with less force, until you just do it in your imagination
That's brain-damaged son
I saw the red star before I could go to visualize it so this test kinda failed me before I took it. Because I already saw it, I could easily visualize it.
Isn't this how piccolo trained?
What's this gay shit
Imagine a blue poop
I can imagine it in full 3d, bright blue.
Draw it using paint 3D or autocad
That's called mind-muscle connection and you should do it. Don't just throw the weight around, make every rep a meditation.
Alright
This isn't blue, it's purple
based colorblind poster
It works guys, I have been imagining to squat every single day for a week now. I started off imagining to squat 200lbs and now I can imagine squatting 220lbs. So a whopping 20lbs increase in only a week, shit is crazy I tell you. Still didnt go to the gym to try it out but progress has been great otherwise.
>Not playing GTA as a nignog that gets right in his ghetto gym then cruising around the hood on your rest days
NGMI
I imagined an actual red dwarf star. Am i retarded?
This thread is incredible
When the casts were removed, the volunteers that did mental exercises had wrist muscles that were two times stronger than those that had done nothing at all.
What's 2 x 0?
>believing what some jew wrote
For you
4, except it's a star of David
I think I need to spend less time on Jow Forums
it works but its more fun to go to the gym
Working out feels good
Drugs feel good to
>normalfags discover what mind-muscle connection is
wow how revolutionary. too bad you're still cutting your gains short by not actually tearing any muscle fibers and not strengthening your joints and tendons. can't wait for some retard to try this shit then attempt to lift something heavy and snap his shit up.
So does food omg ban it
FALSE. Learn how to lucid dream, than lift in your dreams. This is the most efficient method
That reminds me of a study where they had amateurs practice free throws for an hour a day over approximately one month. One group didn't practice at all, one only visualized, one practiced normally, and one split their time into practicre and visualization. The average performance afterwards was better for each group respectively. Can't remember the name, but the study is referenced in a book called "the holographic universe" by Michael Talbot. Highly recomend by the way if you want convincing evidence of all kinds of different unexplained, 'supernatural' phenomena like this.
Rich Piana already discovered this
>Do 100 light reps non stop before bed
>go straight to sleep
>you will dream of lifting and your body will be in "grow" mode as you sleep
