Just imagining a workout can make you stronger (2016)

hmokiguess

I guess it is all in your imagination

skyberrys

Am I doing the same sort of exercise prep when I write out a plan before executing the actions? I did think from the title it would be a silly story, but it does make me thing about how mentally reviewing something before trying to do it does help out the result.

MrFantastic

I think it would be hard to imagine what a heavy lift feels like if you never done it. The pinky example might have helped just because it gave the test subjects an example of what muscle it works, firing the pinky and the ring finger at the same time would be a stronger pull because they share the flexor digitorum profundus. They also would have had to test it first to establish a baseline. I think that one reason people have trouble with pullups is that they just don't understand how to tense up their entire body torso to pull themselves up.

amelius

This is why I watch soccer.

Forgeties79

“Gotta do deads, kids”

thecloudlet

Pilots do this too: "chair flying," rehearsing procedures in your head before the real flight. It works well for checklists, but chair flying a workout still sounds funny to me.

keyle

(2016) But hey, this makes meditation oddly interesting now. swole the mind!

vorticalbox

If I remember correctly I read a paper a few years ago that tested this with people learning piano. The control just did their lesson and the second after the lesson sat and just imagined them playing what they learned no finger movement allowed just thinking. The second group over all learned faster.

demibabs

About to hit 3 sets of Hopes and Dreams, I’ll be jacked.

joegibbs

I have no proof but I really think this is going to be another one of those pop-science "facts" that is eventually proven false. One of those ones like "playing classical music makes plants grow faster", it just doesn't sound right.

fnctrev

I think this makes sense.. mind-muscle connection, coordination, efficiency of lifts.. you can lift more and do it more efficiently without your muscles necessarily actually being bigger.

bob1029

I have learned that merely thinking about deadlifting a personal record can produce more adrenal response than the act itself. I think it might be better to draw the mind trip out a little bit before you do the lift each time. I feel like it reduces the chance of injury when you give your body a few moments to prepare for the onslaught.

harry8

Anyone else catching a whiff of power pose here? [1] Time will tell and should it turn out to be be a con, the con will have moved on. [1] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2017/10/18/beyond-pow...

0plex

We all learned this about 25 years ago.. after watching fightclub we thought we could win a fight with a complete stranger..

ksec

In Martial Art there are also these imagery training. I thought this is a pretty well known and well studies field?