Visualization

Visualization

This article is full of references that demonstrate that visualization can improve performance. So we know that mental practice increases the chances of success. Ranganathan’s study even shows that the simple visualization of doing different exercise increased the strength of the people doing it. So they took a group of subjects who simply visuals the elbow flexion and they measured an increase in strength without even lifting a weight.

So imagine the power practicing it in your head any new talent you are trying to acquire. If you want to play with different modality, you can use two different perspective. It means to visualize as if you see on a television screen. The other version is to view in associated version, so you imagine seeing what you see when you are doing the activity. We therefore use an associated and dissociated version in order to describe these two perspectives, therefore used both!

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Vinoth K Ranganathan  ¹ , Vlodek Siemionow, Jing Z Liu, Vinod Sahgal, Guang H Yue From Mental Power to Muscle Power--Gaining Strength by Using the Mind

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