Welcome to my first installment into the realm of Blogdome. It seems that almost everyone has a blog these days. And you know what? I get a kick out of most of them. Whether the blogger in question is Lou Schuler, Alwyn Cosgrove, Jason Ferruggia, or Andrew Heffernan, it seems almost everyone has something to say about nearly everything.
Time for my two cents. As I thought about my inaugural blog, I figured it would only make sense to write about what I consider the most important component of success, health, and fitness. Let me do what any writer should do and build up the story from the beginning. Do successful people think different than unsuccessful people?
Many experts, books, and seminars have attempted to answer that question. Put another way, it seems that their state of mind is what really makes them unique. Indeed, our mind is our most powerful tool, no matter how cliche it sounds. One of my favorite pieces of research was based on imagined contractions.
Let me explain. In , the lab of two scientists, Yue and Cole, performed a study to demonstrate the power that our mind has over our muscles. The studied consisted of two groups of people. The first group performed a strength training exercise for the pinky finger, five times per week, for four weeks. The second group imagined performing the same exercise for the same frequency and time-frame. What about the group that simply imagined the strength training exercise?
I still get chills when I think about that study. From here, I could talk ad nauseam about the power of the placebo effect. I spend a lot of time reading research papers, and most of them are about as entertaining to read as the ingredients on a shampoo bottle.
