Why Your Mind-Muscle Connection Sucks (and how to fix it)

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Ben Yanes

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@kevinburke9940 4 ай бұрын

What a fantastic video. A topic which everyone mentions you should ‘do’ but no one explains why or how.

@The_Modern_Meathead 4 ай бұрын

appreciate it, kevin!

@EvanZamir 4 ай бұрын

100% agree with your point here. In fact I've always struggled with lateral raises because it's just so damn hard to get "mind muscle" connection. Even though I've been doing cable lateral raises for over a year, it wasn't until the last few weeks that I finally realized I need to make even more adjustments to target my side delts better. I changed the position of the cable to behind-the-back and then I tweaked the initial stretch of the cable by how far from the cable I stand and in addition to that I finetuned the height of the cable and how I raise my delts and to what angle. I think after all that and really blasting to failure in a way I never have before I finally (literally after decades of training, I'm 48 years old) have made my side delts somewhat sore. Hard to tell how that is going to correlate with hypertrophy but it's probably better than wasting my time doing what I was doing before for so long and not getting results. The side delts in particular perhaps because they are so small and there is so much mobility (unlike biceps which really can only move in one way), it's just super hard to target them effectively. If you can figure out side delts (and lats!), you can figure out everything else haha.

@The_Modern_Meathead 4 ай бұрын

glad to hear youve seen the light, my friend. and agreed on the point about delts and their complicated nature relative to hinge joint tissues.

@yshivamkumar2135 4 ай бұрын

an amazing video... prob the best one on mind body connection..... a great examples and explainer.

@The_Modern_Meathead 4 ай бұрын

thank you my friend.

@achitpol_t9805 2 ай бұрын

Great content!

@frankchen4229 4 ай бұрын

thank you for actually referencing basic mechanics from freshman physics instead of just parroting "just work on form bro" another point you can address is that if muscles along the PERIPHERY of the intended path (i.e. your stabilizers) OR muscles along the chain connected along the joint being isolated are weak/underdeveloped (e.g. in a newbie) you WILL feel those muscles eliciting tension in spite of them not being direct prime movers of the given exercise and alter/obscure your perception/focus of a given muscle being worked without actually interfering with tension elicited by "intended muscle groups"; this case where angles/positioning of skeletal components are fine just demonstrates that perception is not necessarily correlated with reality.