409 Degrees – Just Hold It and Visualization As part of the 409 Degrees – Just Hold It Nomad Lifestyle Guide, performing visualizations is emphasised as an integral part of this revolutionary system where health meets fitness and was part of the protocols used for the 409 Degrees – Just Hold It pilot study. Yes, the 409 Degrees – Just Hold It team are aware that there are many people out there that doubt the value of using visualizations, however, as researchers we know that ‘doubt’ is not scientific! If you do a search through the ‘scientific literature’ you will find articles such as this published in the journal Neuropsychologia. 2004;42(7):944-56 titled From mental power to muscle power--gaining strength by using the mind as reached by Ranganathan VK, Siemionow V, Liu JZ, Sahgal V, Yue GH from the Department of Biomedical Engineering/ND20, The Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA. The title says it all; use your mental power (visualizations regarding your workout) and the outcome is increased muscle power. The research on motor skill acquisition has demonstrated clearly that mental practice leads to improved performance and this article continues to support this. This article cites a 1995 research paper by Pascual-Leone et al that demonstrated that the combination of physical training and mental practice of a motor skill resulted in a similar amount of improvement in performance and a similar pattern of adaptation in the primary motor cortex in human participants. Said another way, visualizations (regarding your workout) may help strengthen pathways between your mind (brain) and your muscles even when you are not actually exercising your muscles, your mind is perfecting how to execute the exercise movement. This means that if you cannot actually perform your 409 Degrees – Just Hold It exercise routine for whatever reason, then you can visualize the routine and you will achieve some result. This all made sense to the 409 Degrees – Just Hold It team and this is why visualizations are was included as part of our program. The pilot study participants achieved a 71% compliance with their visualizations as recorded in the personal 409 Degrees – Just Hold It daily diaries. Our 409 Degrees – Just Hold It participants now know the value of using both visualizations and performing their 409 Degrees – Just Hold It exercise moves.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:48:12 +0000
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