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TrackMan III con TPS video o Flightscope X2i complete ? – Update –

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Titolo:  TrackMan III con TPS video o Flightscope X2i complete ? – Update –

Autore: Piero Maina

Conteggio parole: 680

Ciao, ho deciso di scrivere un mini articolo solo per dare seguito a quello che avevo scritto nel primo articolo TrackMan III con TPS video o Flightscope X2i complete ? e anche perchè gli update che avevo aggiunto non venivano letti perchè nessuno sapeva degli inserimenti, visto che la data originaria dell’articolo risaliva al 19 gennaio 2012.

Nell’articolo originale avevo scritto che avrei avuto modo di provare il TrackMan III e il Flightscope X2  nel mio locale indoor con un lato utile di 6,5 mt. e la mia preoccupazione era di investire in un prodotto molto costoso che utilizza la tecnologia radar, che è lo stato dell’arte in quanto a fruibilità e precisione dei dati rilevati in ambiente esterno, ma in ambiente indoor non è proprio la stessa cosa, soprattutto per quanto riguarda il dato del backspin.

Come sapete il discorso nasceva perchè il nuovo prodotto della Flightscope è stato dichiarato comparabile ed altrettanto preciso come il TrackMan III, la differenza è che bisogna spendere € 10.000 in più per il TrackMan. Fino a qualche anno fa la differenza era più giustificata dal fatto che i dati del Flightscope (Kudu) erano praticamente inutilizzabili e quindi TrackMan lavorava in regime di monopolio, ma adesso?

Ad oggi la prova l’ho effettuata solo con il Flightscope X2 e l’ho comparato con i miei Golftek Pro III  e Pro 7 e il CG2 della Foresight . Per essere preciso avevo già provato il Flightscope a febbraio con scarsissimi risultati, tant’è che mi ero rassegnato, ma avendo effettuato  il test contestualmente con il ProIII , c’era la possibilità, poi confermata, che l’apparato della Golftek lo avesse disturbato. Questa volta invece i dati rilevati dall’X2 sono stati abbastanza attendibili e la prova è stata effettuata fianco a fianco con il CG2 che per tecnologia differente, rileva sicuramente con maggior affidabilità il dato del backspin in ambiente indoor. Per quanto riguarda le misurazioni effettuate con i ferri i dati delle due unità sono stati abbastanza omogeni, non proprio alla  alla virgola, ma comparabili, con l’eccezione del dato di backspin che anche con il piccolo adesivo incollato alla palla (necessario perchè il radar ne misuri le rotazioni) non faceva rilevare un dato affidabile al Flightscope per ogni tiro. Va detto che ogni tanto anche questo dato era comparabile con il CG2!!! Differente il comportamento con il drive, i dati sono stati sostanzialmente omogenei su tutti i fronti, anche per il backspin. Il perchè? Sinceramente non lo so!

Ho testato poi il mio Golftek contro il CG2 e i dati sono stati veramente identici. Sapevo che i miei apparati per uso indoor sono veramente affidabili, ma con la tecnologia che avanza, la possibilità di lavorare in ambiente esterno e la quantità di dati analizzabili oltre al software molto più avanzato, mi facevano propendere per l’eventuale acquisto. C’è solo un ma, in ambiente indoor ho visto che posso continuare a lavorare con i miei due Golftek perchè più che affidabili, nel frattempo proverò più estensivamente il Flightscope che oltretutto aumenterà di prezzo di un 3% il prossimo primo giugno. Al momento sono molto tentato dal Flightscope, ma devo ancora effettuare la prova con il TrackMan III e vedere quanto si discosta in meglio o in peggio rispetto al Flightscope e la differenza nel software fra i due, utilizzando come termine di paragone i miei Golftek che ho controllato essere validi e nel frattempo lasciare che sia il mercato ad effettuare il livellamento di prezzo che normalmente avviene quando c’è una sana competizione. Vi ricordo che ci sono sempre quei € 10.000 di differenza fra i due prodotti che non troverebbero giustificazione. Mi aspetto anche un inserimento da parte di TrackMan della possibilità di lavorare in Wi-Fi  con Ipad e Smartphones come già fa il Flightscope e quindi non essendo più così pressato dal fatto di non avere apparati affidabili, posso effettuare la mia scelta con maggior calma, pur sapendo che in ambiente tecnologico se uno aspetta sempre la novità non acquista mai.

Vi terrò informati. Stay Tuned!

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No Pain No Gain: Fitness Myth or Ultimate Fitness Truth?

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Title: No Pain No Gain: Fitness Myth or Ultimate Fitness Truth?

 By line: By Tom Venuto URL: www.BurnTheFat.com!

Word count: 1086 words

No Pain, No Gain. Is this aphorism just a fitness myth and downright bad advice? A lot of people seem to think so. As a bodybuilder with 25 years of training experience and more than two dozen trophies on my shelf, I have another perspective to offer you. Success with your body and in every area of your life is all about stepping outside of your comfort zone and that means embracing pain.

To reach high levels of physical and personal success you must approach your training, and your entire life, as an endeavor in constant growth. The ultimate truth is, you are either moving forward or moving backward; growing or dying. There’s no such thing as comfortably maintaining.

To grow, you must step above past achievements; beyond your perceived boundaries and limits. That means stepping out of the known, into the unknown; out of the familiar and into the unfamiliar; out of the comfortable into the uncomfortable. You must get out of your comfort zone.

The Late Cavett Robert, who was founder of the National Speakers Association, said something I’ll never forget: “Most people are running around their whole lives with their umbilical cords in their hands and they’re looking for some place to plug it back in.”

Most people are scared of the unknown. They prefer to stay in that womb of comfort. When the going gets tough; when the effort gets painful, when the work gets hard, they always pull back into safety. But the extraordinary people do the opposite. They know they have to get out of the comfort zone, and into new territory or they’ll stagnate and die.

Walt Disney once said that he never wanted to repeat a past success. He was always creating something new. They called it “Imagineering.” Disney’s mission was to continuously dream up and create things they had never done before, and look at what Disney has become today.

Here’s a little quote that you should post on your bulletin board, your computer desktop or somewhere you will always see it:

“Do what you always did, get what you always got.”

You can’t grow or change by doing what you’ve already done. You’ve got to train just to prevent yourself from going backwards. Maintenance doesn’t occur when you do nothing, maintenance is working to fight entropy, the tendency for things to naturally deteriorate.

Still, most people won’t leave their comfort zones. They won’t do it in business, they won’t do it in their personal lives. They won’t do it in their sport. They won’t do it for personal health and fitness. Why? The answer is simple… It hurts.

By definition, what’s it like outside the comfort zone? It’s UN-COMFORTABLE, right? Change is uncomfortable. Sometimes it’s physically painful, but it’s always mentally and emotionally painful, in the form of discipline, sacrifice, uncertainty and fear.

The maxim, “no pain no gain” gets knocked all the time as if it were bad advice. The fact of life is that you don’t grow unless you’ are constantly stepping outside the comfort zone, and outside the comfort zone is discomfort and pain.

I find that it’s mostly the non-achievers who make out “no pain, no gain” to be a bad thing. But the winners get it. The champions understand stepping outside the comfort zone in a healthy context, so they embrace it.

When you’re talking about the Olympics, or pro bodybuilding or the Super Bowl or a world championship, you’d better believe it’s physical pain, it’s discipline, it’s sacrifice, it’s blood, sweat, and tears – literally. But for most people who simply want to go from unfit to fit, from overweight to ideal weight, it’s not so much about physical “pain”; it’s more like stretching yourself.

How do you develop flexibility? What does your trainer tell you? You stretch to the point of discomfort, but not to the point of pain, right? You get into a position of slight discomfort and you hold it just long enough, then what happens? The discomfort goes away, because the muscle becomes more pliable, and the range of motion is increased.

Each time, you stretch a little further, just barely into the range you’ve never been in before, and eventually, you’re doing the splits. And why do you approach it like that? Because you don’t want to injure yourself. Stretch too far, too fast and your muscle tears.

The elite athletes and high achievers really have to push themselves; they’re going to push their boundaries and test their limits. But if you’re not an elite athlete or seasoned bodybuilder, and you take the advice, “no pain, no gain” too literally, you’re going to end up getting injured.

I always say to my training partner when I watch him cringing during a set and he finishes up with that pained look on his face, “Are you injured, or just hurt?” He knows what I’m talking about. If he says he’s hurt, I say, “OK, good. As long as you’re not injured. Let’s get on with it. Next set.”

It’s not about injury. That is bad pain. That is stupidity. But do stretch yourself. You can’t improve unless you stretch yourself. If that’s what some people want – if they just want to “stay fit” – OK fine. It actually doesn’t take that much to stay fit, once you’ve already achieved it.

But what if you want to improve? What if you want a new body? What if you want to change? If that’s what you want, you’ve got to push yourself a little. You’ve got to break comfort zones. And if your body is not changing, then I don’t care how hard you think you’re working, whatever you’re doing right now is inside your comfort zone.

The statement “no pain, no gain” has been misinterpreted, criticized and labeled a fallacy by many. However, the people doing the criticizing are almost always comfort zoners who haven’t achieved much. Don’t listen to them. Instead, follow the small percentage of people who step out and achieve great things. If you don’t like the sound of it, then say, “No effort, no gain.” We’re still talking about the same thing.

Embrace the discomfort like the champions do. Soon it subsides, you enjoy the benefits of the change and the pain is forgotten. You’ve reached a new, higher plateau of achievement. Enjoy the view for a short while. But be on guard because it’s not long before that higher level becomes your new comfort zone and then its time to press on again.

About the author
Tom Venuto is a lifetime natural (steroid-free) bodybuilder, freelance writer and best selling author of www.BurnTheFat.com,Feed The Muscle: Fat Burning Secrets of the World’s Best Bodybuilders and Fitness Models. Tom has been featured in IRONMAN, Australian IRONMAN, Italian IRONMAN (Olympian’s News), Natural Bodybuilding and Fitness, Muscular Development, Men’s Exercise, and Men’s Fitness Magazines. Tom’s hard work, no-quick fixes approach has won him multiple titles in drug tested bodybuilding including Mr. Natural Pennsylvania, Natural New Jersey, Natural New York State, Natural Mid Atlantic States and NPC Natural Eastern Classic championships. More important, tens of thousands of people in 141 countries have used Tom’s Burn The Fat program to lose as much as 253 pounds or just the last stubborn 5-10 pounds and achieve that coveted 6-pack of abs. To learn more about Tom’s all-natural approach to fat burning, visit his site at www.BurnTheFat.com!

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L’angolo di lie….un imperativo!

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Titolo:  L’angolo di lie….un imperativo!

Autore: Piero Maina

Conteggio parole:  1343

Come già detto per l’angolo di loft, ribadisco il concetto altrettanto importante di avere l’angolo di lie corretto soprattutto per il set di ferri. Ma anche il putt non sarà da meno, mentre questa variabile diventa di minore importanza sui legni da terra e ancor minore sul drive, ma non totalmente trascurabile.

Per definizione l’angolo di lie di un bastone da golf è quell’angolo che viene a crearsi fra lo shaft e la testa del bastone quando la suola tocca perfettamente il centro sul suolo dove appoggia.(Vedi qui il disegno per la spiegazione)

Diciamo che per tutti i bastoni nella sacca la correlazione fra lunghezza del bastone e angolo di lie è fondamentale, infatti se utlizzeremo un ferro di lunghezza superiore a quella che dovrebbe essere adatta a noi, con un angolo di lie corretto quel ferro sarà ancora perfettamente utilizzabile (a patto di avere la giusta abilità golfistica e buona coordinazione occhio/mano), al contrario di un ferro dalla lunghezza corretta,ma con un angolo di lie lontano da quello ideale per noi. Io sono solito ribadire che gli angoli soprattutto sui ferri e putt sono un imperativo e ancor più per i ferri alti di loft (dal ferro 8 in su), questo perchè il lie è il principale responsabile della direzione e quindi precisione nel colpo effettuato. Comunque anche per i ferri lunghi, c’è l’influenza a livello di solidità del colpo e quindi vedremo cambiare drasticamete in meglio anche un ferro 3 che per il suo ridotto loft (circa 21°) non sembrerebbe avere importanza per un angolo di lie ottimale, ma quando il lie sarà corretto il beneficio che ne trarremo sarà enorme. Ma in che modo il loft correlato al lie ne influenza la direzione?

Guardando  l’immagine qui a fianco capirete meglio cosa fa in pratica il lie sbagliato.

Chiaramente il disegno non ci spiega tutto e adesso vi chiedo di fare spazio alla vostra immaginazione. Se immaginate un ferro 8 l’esempio è perfetto. Nel caso di di sinistra il lie risulta essere troppo upright perchè il segno lasciato sulla suola del ferro è verso il tacco, di conseguenza la palla volerà verso sinistra proprio per effetto del loft. Nel mezzo dove la suola tocca il suo centro grazie a un angolo di lie corretto, se anche la faccia del ferro sarà orientata perpendicolarmente all’obbiettivo avremo un volo di palla perfetto e nell’ultimo esempio a destra,visto il lie inclinato verso la punta e quindi troppo flat, avremo un volo di palla verso destra sempre per effetto del loft “inclinato”. Un ferro 8 misura mediamente 39° di loft e pertanto se il bastone fosse ulteriormente inclinato a sinistra verso il terreno fino ad arrivare ad appoggiare completamente ad esso, la nostra palla non volerebbe a sinistra di “qualche” grado, ma la faccia del ferro in questione avrebbe una direzione a sinistra di quanti sono i gradi del loft e quindi di 39°. Di converso se i gradi fossero 0 (zero), non ci sarebbe nessuna influenza da parte del loft sull’angolo di lie. Per questo motivo tanto minore sarà il loft e tanto minore sarà l’importanza del lie a livello direzionalità su quel bastone. Forse se inserisco un’altra immagine, questo concetto appena spiegato verrà compreso meglio: In questi esempi viene utilizzato un semplice, ma validissmo strumento per farci comprendere il volo della palla, si tratta di un asticella magnetica che applicata alla faccia del bastone ci permetterà d’immaginare il volo della palla. La prima foto ci mostra un volo di palla con il ferro 8 dall’angolo di lie corretto, la seconda foto ci mostra invece il volo della palla a sinistra determinato da un’alterazione dell’angolo di lie troppo uprigth e quindi sul tacco e l’ultima foto in basso ci mostra l’esempio eccessivo di un bastone che sia appoggiato completamente al terreno con la faccia che mira a sinistra tanti gradi quanto sono i gradi di loft di quel bastone e in questo caso 39° perchè stiamo parlando di un ferro 8 medio. Per una spiegazione più tecnica ed esaustiva cliccate qui: (Clicca per aprire l’immagine) La tavola che avete visto sul link è spinta all’estremo e forse un po’ troppo tecnica, ma questo esempio ci mostra ulteriormente l’importanza di avere l’angolo di lie corretto per chi gioca e tanto più per i bastoni alti di loft che sono quelli che realizzano maggiormente lo score. Infatti anche se effettuerò un colpo perfetto all’asta, se l’angolo di lie non sarà corretto o io compenserò con allineamenti del corpo o del bastone o con apertura o chiusura della faccia il differenziale di precisione o è certo che mancherò l’asta o il green con evidenti conseguenze. Qualcuno potrà contestare il fatto che gli angoli di lie quando vengono misurati in maniera dinamica vengono sempre misurati in condizioni perfettamente in piano mentre nel gioco reale la palla in piano non la si trova quasi mai, ma questo aspetto non deve trarre in inganno. E’ vero che quando troverò la palla più alta o più bassa dei piedi mi allineerò di conseguenza cercando di compensare il dislivello, ma devo sapere che il mio bastone ha gli angoli corretti per me e se effettuerò il colpo in maniera corretta risponderà al meglio.

Ho scritto che il lie viene misurato in maniera dinamica. Infatti staticamente potremmo giungere a conclusioni affrettate. E’ certo che nella posizione iniziale all’address avrò un primo riscontro della correttezza dell’angolo di lie soprattutto se sarò un giocatore dalle caratteristiche morfologiche lontane dagli standard e quindi come già scritto sopra avrò magari bastoni modificati sulla lunghezza, ma che devono poi essere riparametrati nell’angolo di lie. Quello che però non viene mostrato nella posizione statica iniziale è il risultato all’impatto. Pertanto se all’address osservando la punta del mio ferro la vedrò innalzata, non devo pensare che quel ferro sia necessariamente upright per il mio gioco o caratteristiche morfologiche, in quanto nello swing il bastone si muove attorno al corpo in maniera e velocità differenziate a seconda di chi manovra il bastone e anche con shaft dal profilo più o meno rigido. Dal punto di vista della tecnica del golf e della fisica di solito le mani arrivano all’impatto in posizione più alta rispetto alla posizione di partenza annullando quindi l’angolo iniziale e il bastone che si muoverà attorno al corpo, “dovrebbe” per effetto della forza centrifuga e del peso della testa, abbassarsi proprio sulla punta annullando l’angolo iniziale (toe down). Però non sempre questo accade e per tale motivo si controlla il risultato della testa all’impatto mettendo del nastro isolante sotto la suola in  modo che ci mostri i segni lasciati strusciando su una tavoletta adatta allo scopo. La cosa è valida nella maggiorparte dei casi, tranne nel caso di suole dei ferri con raggi troppo arrotondati o cavità dove potremmo ricavare verità falsate. L’esperienza del fitter poi dovrà saper leggere eventuali colpi erratici e quindi raccomando sempre di verificare ogni singolo bastone e cercarne la correlazione all’interno del set testato. Certo se lo swing è “work in progress” si potrà pensare che anche l’angolo di lie potrebbe modificarsi nel tempo, ma sappiate che secondo la mia esperienza questa cosa richiede veramente molto tempo prima di avvenire,se mai avverrà e sono quindi più propenso a pensare che il lie sia come la propria firma.

Un ultima nota va detta appunto sui giocatori asimmetrici i quali si troveranno ad avere i ferri lunghi più upright e i ferri corti più flat e in alcuni casi invece è valido l’opposto. Come al solito non mi fate entrare tropppo nel tecnico, ma vi assicuro che questi casi sono molti di più di quanto possiate pensare.

Chiudiamo con il lie del putt. In questo caso la cosa è ancora più macroscopica e l’avere una testa che appoggi perfettamente al centro è un “must”. Naturalmente a patto di avere la giusta lunghezza con il giusto grip, il giusto peso e il giusto loft.

Mi raccomando fate un check sull’attrezzatura appena potete almeno per gli angoli, potreste scoprire piacevoli o amare sorprese. Buon gioco!

 

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The Little Thing in Your Head That’s Keeping You Fat

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Title: The Little Thing in Your Head That’s Keeping You Fat

By line: By Tom Venuto

URL: www.BurnTheFat.com!

Word count: 1685 words

The Little Thing in Your Head That’s Keeping You Fat

By Tom Venuto

I have no doubt that a scientist somewhere just read the title of this article and said out loud, “YES! Venuto is right! That little thing in your head – the hypothalamus – it IS the thing that is keeping you fat! By George, that Venuto guy isn’t a dumb bodybuilder after all – he’s been doing his research!” At which moment, I will be shaking my head and thinking, “you need to get out of the laboratory and into the real world, with real people, buddy.” Okay, okay, to be fair, Neuro-endocrine control of appetite and body fat really is quite fascinating. But today, I’m talking about PSYCH-ology, not PHYSI-ology. The little thing in your head that’s keeping you fat is actually just a….

Limiting belief!

Self-limiting beliefs are among the biggest problems that people deal with in their struggles to achieve a healthy ideal weight. They’re also one of the reasons that so many people start to falter or fall off the diet and exercise wagon as early as late January or early February in their New Year’s goal pursuits.

If you’re that science guy I spoke of and you’re about to bail because you’re thinking, “Here we go again… another psycho-babble, self help article,” then think again. A belief is the force behind the placebo effect, which is well known by every scientist and medical professional. A respected doctor gives a patient a pill and is told it’s a powerful drug. The patient gets well immediately, not knowing that the “miraculous” substance was a dummy pill. Inert. Sugar. The miracle was in the mind.

But beliefs are not only involved in the mind-body connection, they are unconscious programs that control your behavior. The most important factor in whether you achieve the body and the health you want is NOT what diet or training program you follow. It’s what makes you follow your diet and training program. And guess what? What you believe controls your behavior – whether you will stick with your program or sabotage it with cheating, bingeing or inconsistency.

What to do about limiting beliefs

Ok, so now you agree that beliefs are psychological factors that affect you physically by controlling your behavior, including your eating, exercising and lifestyle. What now? 3 steps. 2 questions.

STEP 1: IDENTIFY LIMITING BELIEFS

You are fully aware of many of your beliefs. For example, beliefs about spirituality or politics are usually in the front of your conscious mind.

But the beliefs that hold back your health and physical development the most are usually the ones you don’t even know you have. They are like unconscious “brain software,” running silently in the background.

So the first step is to bring those unconscious and potentially damaging beliefs up to the surface so you are aware of them. You can’t fix a problem if you don’t know you have one.

2 Quick Questions That Will Help Draw Out Your Beliefs

Beliefs can go back to childhood, but don’t worry, you don’t have to go to a psychotherapist and be regressed back to kindergarten. It’s simpler than that. But it does pay to do this questioning process as a formal “exercise” with serious quiet time, with pen and paper (instead of just thinking about it).

Question #1: What causes me to be overweight (or unhealthy, or not having the body I want)?

Question #2: What’s preventing me from getting leaner? (or healthier?)

Spend some time with it and see how big of a list you can create. Ask yourself whether each belief helps or hurts you. Does it move you forward or backward. Does it empower or disempower you? The ones that hurt you or hold you back will be obvious. You may come up with beliefs such as:

“I’m overweight and I can’t get leaner because”:

I have no time I’m too old I can’t stop eating I hate exercise You just can’t do it when you have 4 kids It’s impossible after having a hip replacement

But the million dollar question is: are these beliefs actually true?

Beliefs are not facts. You may hold your beliefs as absolute reality, but when you deconstruct them and challenge them, you may see that they don’t hold any water.

Self limiting beliefs are false interpretations (negative thought patterns) that hold you back. And you keep holding on to them because making excuses and staying the same is a lot more convenient than changing, isn’t it? Change requires hard work, effort and leaving your comfort zone.

Your mission now: weaken the limiting beliefs and get rid of them

STEP 2: CHALLENGE THOSE BELIEFS

How do you challenge a belief? 4 ways:

(A) Challenge it directly: Is the belief even valid at all? See if you can find a “counter example” that disproves your belief. For example; if you think that after you’ve had 3 or 4 kids, it’s impossible to get a nice flat stomach, what will you say after I introduce you to a dozen of my clients and readers who had 3 or 4 kids and went from bulging belly to rock-hard flat stomach? If they did it, then how could your belief be valid? Answer: It WASN’T! You believed something false and inaccurate and it was holding you back!

(B) Challenge the source: Is it your belief, or have you been living what your parents, peers or culture handed down to you? Just the realization that a belief wasn’t yours to begin with is enough to shatter it.

(C) Challenge the usefulness of the belief: Ok, so you believed something when you were younger. Does still believing it has any usefulness today? Does it help you move closer to what you want in your life today? If not, then wouldn’t today be a good time to get rid of it?

(D) Challenging the belief by weighing the consequences: If you keep this belief, what is it going to cost you? What will the pain be like? What will you miss? And what will these consequences be if you don’t change it NOW?

STEP 3: INSTALL A NEW BELIEF

Nature abhors a vacuum, as Spinoza once said. You don’t simply get rid of a belief, you must also replace it. What things would you want and need to believe instead that would create positive behaviors that would move you toward your goal? Write them down, then massage them into an affirmation. For example, if you’ve hung your hat on the belief that you didn’t have time to exercise, could you write a new affirmation of belief similar to this?

“I’m a very busy person, so that means I must set clear priorities and I must keep my health and body on the top of my priority list. I always schedule time for my most important priorities, I am efficient with my training, and I use every minute of my day wisely. And if Barack Obama, the busiest person in the world, can train for 45 minutes a day 6 days a week, there’s no excuse for me. I can do it too.”

Write down your new belief affirmations and read them, right along with your goals, every day.

Then “activate” this affirmation by doing what Olympic and professional athletes do: engaging in mental rehearsal. Visualize yourself carrying out the behaviors that this belief would generate. Think about and feel what it would be like to take those positive actions steps and play mental movies of how your life would change by doing so. Involve all your senses: see it, hear it, feel it.

Keep it up until you start to see your behavior change and your habitual actions come into alignment with your goals/intentions. If you’re diligent, you’ll see changes in attitude and behavior with 21-30 days. It may happen sooner. It may take longer if you’ve carried deep, lifelong limiting beliefs. But in less than a month, the roots of the new belief pattern will be formed.
Then you can update your goals and affirmations to reflect your current priorities and move on to the next goal you want to achieve or the next limiting belief you want to change. Keep THAT up, and pretty soon, you will be LIMIT-LESS!
BELIEVE ME, spending quality time understanding and working on your beliefs is a lot more productive than spending time in forums arguing about whether a low carb program is better than a high carb program… or even whether the cure for obesity is found in the arcuate nucleus of the lower hypothalamus. It’s in your head all right… but most people have been looking in the wrong place.
Train hard and expect success.

Tom Venuto Fat Loss Coach www.BurnTheFat.com!
About the Author:Tom Venuto

Tom Venuto is a fat loss expert, lifetime natural (steroid-free) bodybuilder, independent nutrition researcher, freelance writer, and author of the #1 best selling diet e-book, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle: Fat-Burning Secrets of The World’s Best Bodybuilders & Fitness Models (e-book) which teaches you how to get lean without drugs or supplements using secrets of the world’s best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and increase your metabolism by visiting: www.BurnTheFat.com!

 

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A “Mind Training” Technique That Makes You Stronger

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Title: A “Mind Training” Technique That Makes You Stronger

Author: By Tom Venuto

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A “Mind Training” Technique That Makes You Stronger By Tom Venuto www.BurnTheFat.com!

The word “visualization” sometimes conjures up images of new age gurus teaching esoteric techniques for personal enlightenment and “attracting” what you want into your life. This causes many evidence-based types to scoff. However, piles of research has shown that mental imagery (aka “visualization”) can improve performance. The latest study suggests that a certain type of mental imagery can also increase your strength

Olympic champions and professional athletes have used visualization and mental rehearsal techniques for decades. Not only is visualization one of the most widely accepted techniques in sports psychology, it’s supported by scientific research.

Nevertheless, many people remain skeptical.

Some people agree that mental rehearsal might enhance specific skills, like a golf swing or a basketball throw, but they question whether it could make you stronger, increase muscle growth or help you lose weight.

A new study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research suggests that indeed, mental imagery can make you stronger. This study also begins to explain how mental imagery works on a neurological level…

Twenty two sports students, with a mean age of about 20, participated in the 6-week long experiment. Prior to the study, none had done mental imagery before. The students were divided into a control group and a mental rehearsal group.

The goal was to see if mental imagery could increase bench press and leg press strength.

Each participant was given very specific instructions on how to perform the mental imagery. During the rest period between sets, they were to vividly imagine the exercise movement and the muscle contractions generated from each rep.

After 12 workout sessions, the mental imagery group had significantly increased their strength more than the control group, especially in the lower body (leg press).

The researchers concluded:

“The results provided evidence that mental imagery did contribute to improve strength of the leg muscles without any macroscopic structural change”

What they were saying is that the duration of the study wasn’t long enough that there was any major muscle size increase, so they credited the strength increase to non morphological adaptations.

It’s well known in exercise science that gains in strength occur from changes not just in the muscle fibers and surrounding tissues, but in the nervous system.

That gives us clues about how mental imagery works.

Put simply, mental training techniques, (since they’re working with your brain/nervous system – as the name implies), can trigger some of the same neurological adaptations that occur from physical training.

Apparently, mental imagery can increase synchronization of motor units in muscles, having large corresponding cortical areas in the primary mortor cortex.

There are also psychological benefits, such as increased motivation, improved focus during the set, technique improvements, more confidence and less apprehension or anxiety. But clearly, there’s more to this than just “psyching up.”

Here’s something else interesting. The researchers even suggested that mental imagery could decrease strength loss when athletes are inactive due to injury.

This recent study is a practical one because it gives us one specific technique that you can apply to your next workout: vividly imagine a successful lift for the upcoming set while you’re resting between sets.

NOTE: it’s important to mentally see (visualize) the exercise and mentally “FEEL” the muscle contraction. This is multi-sensory – both visual and kinesthetic.

In some of my previous articles, I talked about density training and superset training as excellent techniques for busy people because these methods reduce rest intervals, making the workout time efficient.

But the rest time between heavy sets doesn’t have to be wasted – now you know what to do with that time…

Instead of chatting with your gym buddies, or scoping out the attractive bods in the gym, you can be mentally rehearsing your next set… and enjoying the strength increase that follows.

 

Most fat loss programs only focus on diet or physical training. If you want to learn more about how you can add “mental training” techniques to increase fat loss, muscle growth and muscular strength, then be sure to check out chapter one in my ebook, www.BurnTheFat.com!.

Tom Venuto, author of Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle www.BurnTheFat.com!

Founder & CEO of Burn The Fat Inner Circle Burn the fat inner circle

About the Author:

Tom Venuto is the author of the #1 best seller, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle: Fat Burning Secrets of the World’s Best Bodybuilders and Fitness Models. Tom is a lifetime natural bodybuilder and fat loss expert who achieved an astonishing 3.7% body fat level without drugs or supplements. Discover how to increase your metabolism and burn stubborn body fat, find out which foods burn fat and which foods turn to fat, plus get a free fat loss report and mini course by visiting Tom’s site at: www.BurnTheFat.com!