Friday, October 24, 2008

Body and Mind Connection

I can not stress enough the importance of focusing the mind to body when weight training. For example, I encourage all my clients to first start with a light weight and make it a challenging movement.Obviously picking up a weight that would be heavy for you would create a significant challenge. So if a set of 20 pd dumbell curls would challenge you to a8-10 rep set, then i suggest you trying a 5pd dumbell set and proceed with the exercise. This will force you to focus on squeezing the muscle more instead of just exploding up with the weight. When you can achieve a muscle burn from such a light weight then you know you are getting in the groove of the mind , body connection. So then carrying over this focus to the heavier weight you will get even more results due to the high concentration of the muscle from just your connection to it.

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