Scientists in full say that if you imagine how you download the press or click the barbell from the chest, your muscles really become stronger. Even if you do not pull in the gym, but they are lying on the sofa. These are the openings to us by moral.
Neurobiologist Michael Mosley and his team conducted an experiment on imaginary training. Not such an innovation - professional athletes actually imagine on competitions 20 times, as they triumphly jumping with a sixth or pushing the core, this is a completely normal part of the preparation for the performance. But then athletes, and whether any effect will this occupation for ordinary mortals?
Mosley took away volunteers - including those who truly could not work because of health - and checked the state of their calf muscles with all sorts of wise ultrasound instruments, finding out the size and mass of muscles.
Then the volunteers were suggested a little less on the harvester for the legs and recorded which muscles work.
Then everything was quite simple - volunteers were released with the world, asking them 5 times a week to imagine in all the details, as they do on this simulator.
A month later, the poles again dragged into the laboratory and re-measured. On average, the strength of the icy muscles of experimental increased by 8%, and one woman even achieved an incredible result of 33%.
The image of an active training in the head makes the brain actually use real muscle fibers, although we do not realize and do not notice it. Brain as if rehearsing the training. New muscles do not grow up, but those that are used more actively.
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