Muscle And Mind, Can One Improve The Other?

Can you improve your muscularity with a muscle and mind connection? The answer is definitely yes.

Can improve your mind with your muscles? Indirectly, yes you can.

Your brain is in control of your entire body and all that goes on in it, and your mind can control your brain. Your mind is what does all of your thinking. Every thought or impulse that comes to you comes from your mind. When you think, you control.

Where is your mind? That's a million dollar question. Let's keep it simple and say that your mind is in your brain and is your brain. When you think about things, e.g. how much fun next Friday will be, what garlic smells like, or lifting a coffee cup, your mind is doing the thinking, and this thinking is affecting your brain. Your brain then sends an electrical impulse to make things happen.

So, if you think about typing, you think about the words you want to type and your brain sends a signal to your fingers to make them move. You don't have to think about all of the muscles moving and everything involved, you just thought about the letters you wanted to type and your brain made it happen.

Your brain is naturally hardwired to do certain things. For the most part, your brain wants everything in the body to be in a state of homeostasis, or to stay the same. It doesn't want change, it just wants to survive. You are made to stay alive, and if your brain and body had their way, you would never burn any calories or do any exercise. This brings up a sad point. Your body rejects excess muscle growth, but welcomes increases in fat. That's because fat equals energy for later, ensuring your body's ability to survive. On the other hand, your body doesn't want an excess of muscle because it actually burns calories, and your body's goal isn't to burn calories but to save them as fat.

Your brain is naturally hardwired to keep you alive. If we had to think about all of the bodily processes, we'd be dead on day one. The body, through the brain, is always trying to maintain homeostasis, meaning that it wants everything to stay the same. Your body is geared to survive, and building muscle is costly to its survival. If your brain and body had their way, you would never move or burn calories. This is where it gets sad. Your body doesn't want to build muscle, but it wants to store fat. Fat is just stored energy, your body wants to have this energy storage to guarantee survival. Muscle consumes calories, and your body wants to store fat and calories, not burn them.

Fat (wanted by brain and body) = Less used calories + More energy for emergency Muscle (brain and body doesn't want too much) = More burned calories + less calories for later use

Fat (body and brain want this) = Less calories burned +More energy for survival purposes Muscle (Body and brain don't want this) = More calories burned + Less fat stores (energy for survival purposes)

What Can You Do?

What to do?

There's no doubt that nutrition and exercise play a huge role in if your body will store fat or build muscle, but there's more to it. Your thoughts can actually change your body's functioning, including how much fat it stores or how much muscle it builds. It really isn't that far fetched if you look at it scientifically. Remember, every bodily function originates, or can be influenced by the brain. It tells your body what to do, and sometimes you have direct input. You can move your arms and legs to play different sports and you can also train yourself and your body to play those sports better and better. Moving your body is easy, but you want to know how to gain muscle with your mind.

There's no doubt that nutrition and training play a major role in the amount of fat and muscle being built, but your mind and muscle are connected. Your thoughts can actually change the way your brain/body stores fat and builds muscle. It really isn't that crazy of an idea. Remember, everything that happens in your body starts in the brain. The brain is the boss, it gives your body orders, and they are carried out. You have a lot of control over your mind and muscle connection. You can move your limbs around and play sports and you can train your body and mind to play those sports even better. Moving your body is easy, but you want to know if and how you can build muscle with your mind.

Part of that is true, building muscle is an automatic process of the body just like breathing and circulation is.

That is true. Muscle building is an automatic process for your body, as is pumping blood, and breathing.

Think about it for a second. Try to stop breathing for 5 seconds. Start now. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. You can do it. You just did it. Breathing is something your brain does for you automatically, but you can actually control it. So, some things are automatic, but you can control them. You controlled your breathing by simply thinking about it.

You are either thinking that changing your breathing is no big deal, or you might have just had a Eureka moment.

Is it starting to come together? Let me explain a little deeper. By the way, the best and only thing available about this topic is Klint Newton's Mental Edge Muscle Building program. It covers all of the physical and mental aspects of gaining muscle.

1. You learn how, and 2. You practiced and trained yourself

1. You learned how to do it, and 2. You practiced and trained yourself

Obviously, you can change your breathing rate by thinking about it, you have trained yourself to be able to do it. You can also learn and train yourself to grow muscle. It takes more practice and training, but it can happen. The first thing you have to do is learn how to do it.

All you have to do is make your brain want to build muscle, and you do this in a certain way, with your thoughts. Muscle gain isn't an accident, it can all start with a thought.