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12.4% The increase in biceps muscle thickness in subjects who thought about the mind-to-muscle connection when training, almost double the gains seen in those who focused on something else
Do you want to double your muscle size gains without any extra effort? Of course you do – so next time you hit the weights room, block out all external distractions to focus solely on the movement of your working muscles. Simply thinking about your mind-to-muscle connection, which is the communication pathway that your brain uses to tell your muscle fibres to fire, makes a phenomenal difference to the success of your session, according to new research published in the European Journal Of Sports Science. This found that subjects who did exactly that reported biceps muscle growth of 12.4% after eight weeks of training, compared with just 6.9% in the group that focused simply on finishing the set. The same gains were reported in the quad and hamstring muscles – so start thinking harder to add size faster.
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