Natural Olympia Women’s Bodybuilding champ Céline Richard discusses the significance of the mind-muscle connection for muscle progress. 

When excited about muscle hypertrophy (muscle progress), we regularly take into consideration the load you raise, the train you do, and the amount of your exercises. But we regularly neglect one other important part of muscle hypertrophy. And that’s your capability to focus on the muscle you’re concentrating on throughout an train, a mind-muscle connection. Professional Natural Bodybuilding Association (PNBA) athlete Céline Richard defined its significance for muscle progress on social media. 

Richard acknowledged (translated to English):

“The mind-muscle connection is an inner focus, which entails directing our consideration to the muscle that’s working throughout power coaching.

@psychofitness21 provides alerts of focus by touching a specific muscle, this has a optimistic impression on muscle stimulation and hypertrophy (muscle progress).

He makes use of psychological cues throughout exercises to get his purchasers to give attention to their muscular tissues and actions. These cues can imply that by merely excited about squeezing a specific muscle throughout an train, you might be activating it way more successfully than simply mindlessly crashing reps.”

You can see her complete social media put up under. 

Céline Richard competed within the Women’s Bodybuilding class and was the 2021 Natural Olympia gold medalist. Richard initially acquired second place. However, she was bumped to the winner after the previous 2021 Natural Olympia Women’s Bodybuilding champ Jill Kolivoski failed a drug take a look at

Drug Testing within the INBA PNBA League 

The International Natural Bodybuilding Association (INBA)/PNBA takes drug testing very severely. Athletes are examined for medicine prohibited beneath the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) pointers within the low season and in-season. Any athlete who fails a drug take a look at shall be stripped of their title, prize, and cash and positioned within the Hall of Shame. In addition, they’re banned from competing. 

Other pure bodybuilding leagues, for instance, could take a look at for medicine. However, their strategies aren’t as dependable because the INBA PNBA league. For occasion, Jill Kolivoski went beneath the radar in a separate pure bodybuilding league, the place she handed a drug take a look at. 

Mind-Muscle Connection

The mind-muscle connection is your capability to give attention to a particular muscle group you’re concentrating on throughout a motion. For instance, throughout a bicep curl, as a substitute of excited about the variety of reps you’re performing or how a lot weight you’re lifting, you’ll put your consideration in your biceps. And take into consideration the contractions taking place as you raise the barbell. Visualize your biceps squeezing collectively each rep. Training your mind to concentrate to the muscle you’re activating will enhance muscle activation. 

Although this may occasionally sound woo-woo, analysis helps its effectiveness for muscle hypertrophy (1). Another good thing about mind-muscle connections is that it forces you to concentrate to your type.

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Reference

  1. Schoenfeld, B. J., Vigotsky, A., Contreras, B., Golden, S., Alto, A., Larson, R., Winkelman, N., & Paoli, A. (2018). Differential results of attentional focus methods throughout long-term resistance coaching. European journal of sport science, 18(5), 705–712. https://doi.org/10.1080/17461391.2018.1447020

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