Mind Over Muscle, Will Your Thoughts Help You Build Muscle?

Everyone has heard of the placebo effect, but most people haven\’t thought about putting their mind over muscle, or using their mind to help build muscle. The truth is most people experience the placebo effect with their supplement usage. The placebo effect is basically when someone is in need of medicine and they are given a substance other than medicine, but told it is medicine. That substance then puts their pain at ease, but how can a sugar pill kill pain?

The explanation is actually quite simple. The patient thought they were getting the real medicine, they had no doubt about it, it never crossed their mind that they were getting the real medicine. So, they thought that their problem would fade away because the medicine was going to take care of it. What worked is not the \”medicine\” but the person\’s belief that it would work. Even Jesus Christ told his disciples over 2000 years ago that if they had strong enough faith they could move mountains. One of his disciples, Peter, even walked on water because of his faith.

Mind Over Muscle, The Placebo Effect So what does the Placebo Effect have to do with gaining muscle? It has everything to do with it! Everything that happens in the body, has to first go through the brain. We can control our brain by our thoughts, with our minds. It looks like this:

1. Our thoughts indirectly control our brains 2. Our brains directly control our bodies 3. Our body gains muscle, if the brain tells it to.

Just as someone believes that a sugar pill can heal them, they are right, it can and usually does. Also, just as they believe that supplements can help them build muscle, it can and usually does, but more often it\’s not the supplement that\’s really building the muscle. It\’s their mind communicating to their brain, \”This supplement works. I AM going to gain muscle with this stuff, the science proves it.\”

When your belief and conviction is this strong, your mind is telling your brain what it wants, and your brain does what it\’s told. Plus, your brain is responsible for building muscle, so if it is told to gain muscle, you will.

Use It For Your Advantage To gain muscle, you don\’t have to drink a tub load of chalky, expensive, gross tasting powder, but you must believe in yourself. The supplement placebo effect usually works when you think you are getting a real medicine and that it\’s going to work.

The major premise of the placebo effect is that you KNEW something would work. You would be limitless if you could KNOW that you would gain muscle whenever you did something you were supposed to. You can know this, you just have to choose to do so. Here are a few things you can do to put your mind over muscle and use your mind\’s ability to build muscle:

1. Pre Workout- KNOW that your workout WILL add another layer of strong, ripped muscle 2. During Workout – KNOW that with each rep and set you are forcing tons of muscle stimulation and that you will get huge 3. Post Workout – Feel great about the workout and KNOW that you just sparked tons of muscle growth, and look forward to the next training session knowing that you will be building even more muscle.

You need to actually think about what you do to help you gain muscle. You need to realize how every bite of nutritious food is helping you gain muscle. Realize how every hour of sleep is adding more muscle and helping recovery. Basically, every muscle building activity needs to be coupled with positive thoughts about how it will help you gain mass.

Building muscle is a physical thing, but it can also be a mental thing. Your brain does what its told, and your mind is telling it what to do, whether you know it or not. Always give it instructions to continuously build muscle. Tell yourself that you ARE gaining tremendous amounts of muscle mass, and prepare to be shocked!

It\’s time for you to find the best way to gain muscle, check out Klint Newton\’s Mental Edge Muscle Building Program and receive the FREE 7 Part muscle building guide to find out how to use the Mind Over Muscle connection.