mind-muscle

Whether to train with or without music during bodybuilding workouts largely depends on personal preference. There are benefits and drawbacks to both. **With Music:** 1. **Mood Enhancement**: Music can elevate your mood, motivation, and overall enjoyment during workouts. It can help you stay...

Mind-Muscle Connection - We often hear that it's good to have a mind-muscle connection. So to actively think about engaging the muscle group you are trying to train. But what does the research on mind-muscle connection actually show? - In a 2018 study, researchers investigated the effects of...

Does lifting faster increase strength gains? _ You often hear the advice of “lifting slowly” and “focus on the squeeze in the muscle”. _ Turns out this might very well cut your 1RM strength gains in half. _ Performing squats with maximal speed in the upward (concentric) phase vs half the...

This study first measured the specific activation of various portions of the triceps muscle during a triceps exercise. The subjects then performed this exercise for 12-weeks. - ◾️It was found that the portions of the triceps that were activated the most in the exercise grew the most over the...

Training hard is more important than following a plan. And if you're losing motivation, it'll be more difficult to train hard. Someone who trains brutally hard with laser-like focus on a very basic plan will get better results than someone who trains at 80% on the best plan designed by man. The...

Mind-muscle connection is a variation of the idea of "internal focus of attention" which comes from the field of motor learning. It's the process of actively thinking about the target muscle during training and then feeling it work through the full range of motion. This strategy maximizes...

by Christian Thibaudeau BOSU ball curls are idiotic. Why? Well, you simply can't lift as much weight when you're on an unstable surface. And you lose a lot of the mind-muscle connection when your attention and CNS resources have to be divided into two different motor tasks. As such, you're...

As gym newbies, intent on building a pair of massive, sleeve-splitting arms, it's only natural that the first exercises we gravitated to in the gym involved every variation of elbow flexion and extension we could find. However, despite weeks of intense curling, our guns grew very little and...