{"id":18397,"date":"2025-09-15T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=18397"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:14:55","slug":"increase-your-physical-strength-just-by-using-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/increase-your-physical-strength-just-by-using-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase Your Physical Strength Just by Using Your Mind!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like one of those too-good-to-be-true claims, we thought. But researchers at Bishop\u2019s University in Quebec recently conducted a study* which indicated that mental training alone could increase muscle strength.<\/p>\n<p>The two-week study took 30 male university athletes and divided them into three groups. The study focused on the hip flexor muscles, since that is one muscle group that can\u2019t be readily exercised in other contexts or with free weights.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-teaser\"><b><a title=\"Permanent Link: Increase Your Physical Strength Just by Using Your Mind!\" href=\"\/general\/increase-your-physical-strength-just-by-using-your-mind\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the rest of this post here<\/a><\/b>\u00a0(356 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)<\/div>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post, make sure you\u00a0<a href=\"\/feed\/\">subscribe to my RSS feed<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like one of those too-good-to-be-true claims, we thought. But researchers at Bishop\u2019s University in Quebec recently conducted a study* which indicated that mental training alone could increase muscle strength. The two-week study took 30 male university athletes and divided them into three groups. The study focused on the hip flexor muscles, since that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-therapies","category-general-health-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}