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blowfish
11-25-2008, 08:20 AM
Hi everybody!

I just found a very interesting article on the web that might have been discussed here anywhere before, but I would like to share it with you anyway. It's all about the mind-muscle-connection that is - in my opinion - one of the most crucial elements of the Transformetrics system.

The artice refers to a study by Guang Yue of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio. His study demonstrated, that muscles grow - measurable - simply by so called "mental gymnastics"!

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Muscles move in response to impulses from nearby motor neurons. The firing of those neurons in turn depends on the strength of electrical impulses sent by the brain.

"That suggests you can increase muscle strength solely by sending a larger signal to motor neurons from the brain," says Guang Yue, an exercise physiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio.

Yue and his colleagues have already found that mentally visualising exercise was enough to increase strength in a muscle in the little finger, which it uses to move sideways. Now his team has turned its attention to a larger, more frequently used muscle, the bicep.

They asked 10 volunteers aged 20 to 35 to imagine flexing one of their biceps as hard as possible in training sessions five times a week. The researchers recorded the electrical brain activity during the sessions. To ensure the volunteers were not unintentionally tensing, they also monitored electrical impulses at the motor neurons of their arm muscles.

Every two weeks, they measured the strength of the volunteers' muscles. The volunteers who thought about exercise showed a 13.5 per cent increase in strength after a few weeks, and maintained that gain for three months after the training stopped. Controls who missed out on the mental workout showed no improvement in strength.

The research was presented at the Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego.

(Full article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1591-mental-gymnastics-increase-bicep-strength.html)
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It doesn't take much to image what happens if you add DVRs and DSRs etc. to the concentration and focussing on the muscles - and the results of many of the forum members are the best evidence anyway! :act-up:

Best regards,
René

MikeNY
11-25-2008, 11:26 AM
Great article! Gordon will just love this, he is interested in Nerve force.

John Peterson
11-25-2008, 01:08 PM
Hey Rene',

Great article. Thank you for posting it. This is something that I believe is the very basis for super human strength and development. This was the secret that Alexander Zass tapped into with his Isometric Training. In fact, the great Martial Arts Instructor John Mc Sweeney told me personally that he had never achieved as great a result from other forms of strength training as he had from his own Tiger Moves where "Thinking into the muscle is the key." And of course Alois P Swoboda whom Gordon Anderson (Andy62) and I have mentioned on many occasions was the very first of the great Physical Culture Instructors from the early 1900's to underscore and publicize the importance of "thought" as the pre-eminent apparatus for strength development.

---John Peterson

Kevin Nickerson
11-25-2008, 02:16 PM
I think that's what makes the power T's so great as well-Kevin