Mind and Muscle, Can One Improve the Other?

by Klint Newton

Can your muscularity be improved with a mind over muscle connection? Yes, it sure can.

Can improve your mind with your muscles? Indirectly, yes you can.

This is part 3 of 3. Check out part 1: Mind Over Muscle and part 2: Mind and Muscle. You can also check out Mind and Muscle and the Supplement Placebo Effect.

Ok, let’s get into it.

Your mind, or brain, is in control of all of your bodily functions. Your mind is also what does your thinking. Every idea, thought, or impulse comes to you from your mind. What you think about, your mind brings about, through your brain. Stay with me here.

The Placebo Effect

Where is your mind? That’s a million dollar question. Let’s keep it simple and say that your mind is in your brain and is your brain. When you think about things, e.g. how much fun next Friday will be, what garlic smells like, or lifting a coffee cup, your mind is doing the thinking, and this thinking is affecting your brain. Your brain then sends an electrical impulse to make things happen.

So, if you think about typing, you think about the words you want to type and your brain sends a signal to your fingers to make them move. You don’t have to think about all of the muscles moving and everything involved, you just thought about the letters you wanted to type and your brain made it happen.

Typing is something you do naturally, you don’t even think about it. Typing is not something difficult for your brain to handle. Building muscle is a little more difficult. One reason building muscle is so tough is because your mind and muscle don’t get along. Your brain is always sending a signal saying it doesn’t want any more muscle and everything that occurs in the body can be controlled in the brain. Therefore, if your brain doesn’t want to build more muscle, you’re not gaining more muscle. There’s no big, flashy, half full tub of supplement that will change what your brain thinks is best for your body.

Your brain is naturally hardwired to keep you alive. If we had to think about all of the bodily processes, we’d be dead on day one. The body, through the brain, is always trying to maintain homeostasis, meaning that it wants everything to stay the same. Your body is geared to survive, and building muscle is costly to its survival. If your brain and body had their way, you would never move or burn calories. This is where it gets sad. Your body doesn’t want to build muscle, but it wants to store fat. Fat is just stored energy, your body wants to have this energy storage to guarantee survival. Muscle consumes calories, and your body wants to store fat and calories, not burn them.

Fat (wanted by brain and body) = Less used calories + More energy for emergency Muscle (brain and body doesn’t want too much) = More burned calories + less calories for later use

Fat (wanted by brain and body) = Less used calories + More energy for emergency Muscle (brain and body doesn’t want too much) = More burned calories + less calories for later use

It appears that what your brain and body want and what you want are polar opposites.

What to do?

You’re probably thinking that you can’t control what your brain and body does. You’re probably thinking that your mind and muscle are not connected at all. You can’t stop your body from storing fat and make it build muscle, right? Well, it’s a gray area, and you have more say so than you might think.

Obviously nutrition and physical activity have a huge role in how much fat is used, and how much muscle growth is stimulated, but there is more to it. Your thinking can actually change your body’s amount of fat and muscle. Its really not so far fetched, if you think about it. Remember, everything that happens in your body, originates in the brain. Your brain is central command. It tells your body what to do. Sometimes you have direct control over what happens. You can move your arms and legs to play sports. You can also train yourself to move your body to play those sports better. Moving your body around is one thing, but you want to know about building muscle with your mind.

How can I build muscle with my mind? My body does it automatically, and I have no control over it!

That is true. Muscle building is an automatic process for your body, as is pumping blood, and breathing.

Mind Controls Body

If you’re like most people, you just had a real “Eureka” moment.

You are either thinking that changing your breathing is no big deal, or you might have just had a Eureka moment.

Is it starting to come together? Let me explain a little deeper. By the way, the best and only thing available about this topic is Klint Newton’s Mental Edge Muscle Building program. It covers all of the physical and mental aspects of gaining muscle.

How you control something like breathing? How do you control something that is automatic?

You just proved that you can change your breathing rate by thinking about it, you have trained yourself, if only by accident, to be able to do this. You can also train your mind, along with your body, to gain muscle. It takes more training and practice, but it can happen, the first step is finding out how to do it.

Obviously, you can change your breathing rate by thinking about it, you have trained yourself to be able to do it. You can also learn and train yourself to grow muscle. It takes more practice and training, but it can happen. The first thing you have to do is learn how to do it.

A few videos to sum it all up:

All you have to do is make your brain want to build muscle, and you do this in a certain way, with your thoughts. Muscle gain isn’t an accident, it can all start with a thought.

If you’re wanting to know the best way to gain muscle, you need to check out Klint Newton’s Mental Edge Muscle Building Program. You can check out his 7 Part muscle building guide for free. You need to know how to use your mind to build muscle, plus The Mental Edge Muscle Building Program will show you just that, plus more.