Before embarking on any kind of muscle building workout in the gym, you need to be very aware of the importance of the mental connection - your brain to the muscles of your body.
The fact is that it is your brain that regulates the intensity of muscle contractions. You can make the same movement with completely different efficiency. It is very important for you at the initial stage of training to learn how to make the contractions of the trained muscles as efficiently as possible in order for them to respond well with growth to the load applied to them.
Many professional bodybuilders often say, "Where the brain goes, the body goes too." Even Arnold Schwarzenegger, when he trained his body, often closed his eyes and imagined how the muscle contracts, fills with blood and grows. Madness? Nothing like this. This is all visualization and mental connection! Well, you say, how can we develop this?
You have to understand in detail how the muscles to which you apply the load during training contract. It is most convenient to start such practices during the first warm-up approach in the exercise.
- Close your eyes and try to feel the muscle contraction.
- Hold at the point of peak contraction (at the point of maximum muscle contraction) for 1-2 seconds.
- Imagine a muscle contracting. How it fills with blood. How it gets warm and grows.
This practice will teach you to train the desired muscles with a much greater efficiency. An experienced bodybuilder can take even a very small weight in the exercise and work out the muscles being trained very well with it, and all this thanks only to the mental connection between his brain and muscles.
