Imaginary training can replace the real thing
Strength athletes who replace some of their workouts with sessions in which they imagine training with weights achieve almost the same progression as athletes who don't miss any training sessions. Sports scientist Mathias Reiser of Justus Liebig University Giessen came to this conclusion after doing a trial with 43 healthy students. Imaginary training is a good option for athletes with a lively imagination. Imaginary training Imagining that you are training strengthens muscles. This was proved in a famous study done by sports scientist Vinoth Ranganathan. [Neuropsychologia. 2004;42(7):944-56.] Without even moving your biceps, for example, you can strengthen them just by thinking of curls. Researchers in the Netherlands discovered that it was possible to strengthen the calf muscle of subjects using this method, and that people with serious injuries recovered more quickly . Scientists at the University of Lyon discovered that imaginary training is...