Mind muscle connection
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🧠 If your goal is to improve your physique and for bodybuilding/ aesthetic purposes then you need to develop a strong mind muscle connection.
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⛹🏼♂️Movement is controlled by the brain. The more you can improve the communication between your brain and the target muscle, the more muscle fibres you will recruit. The result? a better quality in muscle contraction and a better workout!
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❌Poor mind muscle connection is possibly the biggest mistake of the average gym goer out there. You can go into any gym and i guarantee you are going to see someone in there at some point, lifting weights which are too heavy for them with terrible form. The most common? The bicep curl or the tricep pushdowns. Shoulders moving around all over the place, leaning back and swinging, taking complete emphasis away from the muscle that they are trying to work. Very poor mind muscle connection!
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🎯Muscle don’t grow because your moving weight up and down, they grow because they are forced to contract by acting on that weight. The tension is derived from the equipment that you are using. Weather that be free weights, cables or machines. Concentrate on the muscle you are trying to target and squeeze it. If you maximise the force placed on your target muscles you will maximise your gains, and thats what it’s all about, not maximising the weight your moving from A to B, that is secondary (unless you are a powerlifter/ strongman).
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🗒 If you want to make better gains, then focus on developing this. Here are a few pointers to achieve that:
1️⃣ Don’t ego lift - Think less about weight and more about the quality of the reps.
2️⃣Warm it up and practice - Do a few warm ups at a light weight and really focus on contracting every damn fibre possible in that exercise.
3️⃣Slow it down - Lower weight, slower movement, increase the time the muscle is under tension.
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❓Got a lagging body part? I bet you have a very poor mind muscle connection with that muscle. You've got to train hard but you've also got to train smart!
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