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4/27/2015 07:25:00 pm

What Really Is MMC? (Muscle-Mind Connection)

4/25/2015 12:34:00 pm

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The MMC connection

When you go to the gym, or when you train at home, the biggest equipment you bring with you is your ego. You know, this thing that unconsciously asks you to lift more thant the others so you legitimize your presence and make other people think " woah, that girl/man is so powerful!"

It flatters your ego and that is what encourages you to come back and do even better. Well, in time you will do better and lift heavier, but you forget the most important thing when it comes to make muscles grow: the muscle-mind connection.

It's all the rage those days in the fitness community, yet it's been used for decades and decades and is the more efficient thing to grow bigger and leaner muscles. The only thing is, to use it you have to let your ego at the door and go for lighter weights.

Using your muscle-mind connection means that you'll grab lighter barbells and bars, but you will concentrate intensively on the muscle you're working on:

When doing biceps curls, you'll go for maybe 10 lbs instead of 15 or 20, but you will force your mind to connect to the target muscle (here, the biceps) and focus on deeply feeling the muscle while it does its job.

It takes much more energy from your body because the focus must be fully dedicated to the target muscle. That is why you'll have to grab lower weight, because secondary targeted muscle won't work as much as they are used to when you don't focus, and the targeted muscle will be more involved on its own. The result is, the contraction of the muscle will be better and you will end up with faster-growing muscle.

For two years and a half I had only been working out, thinking that a good form was enough. I didn't feel half of the reps i did , was rarely sore and didn't get fabulous results: it was unefficient.

This way of working means that if you don't feel a rep in your muscle, if you do one without feeling the contraction, then it doesn't count and you have to do it again.

If that is not the way you're used to working out, then try it at first on bodyweight and low-weight exercises (abs, kickbacks, push-ups...) and preferably at-home so you don't get distracted.

If you want to know more about the MMC connection and you're very interested in knowing more about it, a lot of fitness pages will explain the chemical and organic reaction of the body while using the MMC and soon enough you'll be convinced!

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