There is a way to keep your muscles strong without muscle training

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"It is important that not only aerobic exercise but also muscle training is important for health"I will be asked. In order to train the body efficientlyIntense exerciseAlthough it may be recommended, on the other hand, research has shown that "muscle strength is preserved just by imagining exercise without doing weight lifting."

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https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jn.00386.2014

Muscle Strength Is in the Mind - The Atlantic
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This research was published by Brian Clark, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Ohio University in 2014. Mr. Clark et al. 'S team fixed 29 men with a non - dominant arm for 4 weeks. At this time, 14 out of 29 subjects were imposed on 5 days a week with "imaginary exercise" and were told to imagine "movement to bend and extend the wrist" for 11 minutes at 5 second intervals .

Fifteen out of 29 people were not imposed imaginative exercise tasks, but after four weeks of findings, the subjects who performed imaginary exercises gained more muscle than those who did nothing He said he was in a strong condition. Specifically, both groups had muscle weakness in their arms, but the groups who performed imaginary exercises did not do anything, despite having a 25% muscle weakness since the beginning of the experiment It is said that a 45% drop in the group was observed.

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Then, in order to investigate the connection between the brain and the muscle, Clark et al. Created a magnetic field on the exercise field of the subject and stimulated the neuronTranscranial magnetic stimulation methodThe we. In this method, as the magnetic field is generated, the muscle is paralyzed as soon as the muscle of the subject moves. Mr. Clark et al. Investigated the connection between the brain and the muscles by measuring the degree of muscle contraction and time to paralyze. Place indicating that the weak remain as the motor cortex and the muscle ties long period of paralysis, exercise the group that went on the imagination has a short period, it was found a strong connection between the motor cortex and muscle.

The idea that "imaginary exercise strengthens muscles" is not new, and in 2003, Mr. Guang Yue of the Cleveland Clinic says, "Just by imagining an exercise, the muscles of your fingersUp to 35% strengthenedIn 2010, Kai Miller of the University of Washington said that "When imagining an exercise, the same brain field as when actually exercising will be activated"Announcing.

Although Mr. Clark's experiment is small in size, it can be said that it showed one piece of evidence to support past research results. "Imaginary movement" is one of things to keep the connection between the brain and muscle,It is important for health to think that "exercise"It is said that thought is also important to the body in addition to the actual exercise, as it is said to be.

byOleksandr Pidvalnyi