Scientists discover just IMAGINING exercising can make you stronger and tone your muscles

parfia
parfia Posts: 184 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2887151/Scientists-discover-just-IMAGINING-exercising-make-stronger-tone-muscles-delay-stop-muscle-atrophy.html

Just found this and thought I would share - forget going to the gym every morning, I'm staying in bed and dreaming about it!!

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  • AmazonMayan
    AmazonMayan Posts: 1,168 Member
    I didn't read the article but yeah dreaming will be my workout this morning :D

    I'm tired and punchy and sick of having to drive with ice falling out of the sky. Real exercise will come later today.
  • lexylondon
    lexylondon Posts: 89 Member
    Good old daily mail. Always rehashing old news! It's interesting though.
  • VoiceWithNoValue
    VoiceWithNoValue Posts: 58 Member
    Now I wonder why it didn't work for me since I used to did a lot..
  • MelanieBruce1
    MelanieBruce1 Posts: 20 Member
    this is so great - i am getting in shape right now. to heck with the gym! i am climbing mountains and sword fighting and surfing and sailing and skiing.
  • Mycophilia
    Mycophilia Posts: 1,225 Member
    Might want to read the actual study. Classic case of media misunderstanding findings.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    Nope. Nope. Nope. DailyFail.

    Read the original article here:http://jn.physiology.org/content/112/12/3219

    Not increased strength, just reduced atrophy by 50%.

  • Trump2016
    Trump2016 Posts: 80 Member
    edited February 2016
    Red flags:

    1. "Tone"
    2. "DailyMail"
    3. Stock image of a guy who wouldn't have gotten anywhere close to where he is if his attention were regularly captured by glorification of something so insignificant.
    4. Willfully reducing gym ethic -- "having the same effects as actually hitting the gym" -- without making an honest distinction about it being a fraction of a fraction of the effects; phrasing it in a way as though to suggest a good deal of effects overlap

    Did I miss any? I regret giving that website traffic - typical clickbait garbage.

    The only way there could've been more missteps is if BuzzFeed staff interpreted and authored it.
  • Maxematics
    Maxematics Posts: 2,287 Member
    "A new research study suggests that just thinking of exercising can have the same effects as actually hitting the gym."

    Hahahaha. That is hitting an all-time low of laziness. How insulting to people who actually put time and work into their bodies through exercise, as well as people who are disabled and can't do so. "If you just imagine yourself at the gym, you will build muscle and become stronger!" What's even more sad is people who will believe the way Daily Mail twisted this. *sigh*
  • CurlyCockney
    CurlyCockney Posts: 1,394 Member
    EvgeniZyntx wrote: »
    Nope. Nope. Nope. DailyFail.

    Read the original article here:http://jn.physiology.org/content/112/12/3219

    Not increased strength, just reduced atrophy by 50%.

    Thanks for the link. Part of my therapy when I was relearning to walk was to sit outside a coffee shop and watch passers-by walking, and imagine that my legs were doing the same. I can't say that this made a huge difference as I was having lots of other therapy at the same time, but this article certainly makes sense to me.

  • thankyou4thevenom
    thankyou4thevenom Posts: 1,581 Member
    I love the Daily Fail. It's satire without the satire.
  • Meganthedogmom
    Meganthedogmom Posts: 1,639 Member
    Good thing I did my usual Monday morning routine - thought about exercising but went back to bed instead.
  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    Yeah about the time monkeys fly out my butt.
  • WendyLaubach
    WendyLaubach Posts: 518 Member
    I can easily imagine that ideation exercises of this kind could help in recovery after serious injury, especially neurological injury. For everyone else, yeah, very funny. The usual "magic potion" thinking.
  • tkphotogirl
    tkphotogirl Posts: 245 Member
    I love how the Fail never fails to live up to its nickname.
  • nordlead2005
    nordlead2005 Posts: 1,303 Member
    I've been doing it wrong.... :frowning:

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