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Mind-muscle connection heavily boosts physical outcomes

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Just blankly tossing weights around is a total waste of your time. Actively focusing your intense mental attention precisely on the specific fiber you are trying to squeeze literally forces your nervous system to fire harder. If you are not actively thinking about the flex, you are leaving free results entirely on the table.

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