Press Release Author = Horizon Direct Services Ltd
Industry = Healthcare
Press Release Summary = Ina recent survey in a London Health Club, the importance of Mind Power on an individual\'s rates of improvement was investigated.
Press Release Body = London March 2006
In a study conducted recently at a London based heath centre, interesting comparisons were made between many members\' actual physical ability to lift large weighs, and their actual mental ability to achieve progress and grow their bench press capabilities.
It has long been known that peer pressure has a great stimulating effect on progress with raising performance in the gym, as everybody tends to rise to a challenge of this nature, but what was interesting, is that pressure from the mind can be greatly stimulating to anybody\'s success rate.
Now this at first may seem blatantly obvious, and as the old saying goes \'If Your Heart (mind) is not in it - you won\'t be able to do it\', so a number of experiments were put in place at the Health Club.
Over a period of weeks, a number of the members were asked if they would be interested in a program to increase their weight lifting capabilities over a period of 12 weeks, and out of the 40 or so who agreed, half were placed on a program where their workout cards were just marked up with an increasing weight routine, and left to their own devices, and the other half were actively encouraged by staff members to push themselves to the limits each time they came to the club.
To start with the results were to as to be expected with the group that were actively encouraged, rapidly overtook those who were just left to do their own thing.
But then a little bit of \'mind pressure\' was brought into play on the group who were not being motivated by the staff.
Half of that group were all introduced to Sally, a slim, lightweight, size 6 young lady, who just goes down the gym two or three times a week, not to build fantastic bulging biceps, but to just keep an overall level of fitness that keeps her looking trim and the envy of many of the other ladies down there.
You would be darned surprised if she calmly lay on the bench, and pushed 250 pounds! I bet she would too, as in her mind, to lift more than 80 pounds might make a bead of sweat trickle down her pretty and delicate forearm!
So when these 10 people were told, in private discussion, that this same young lady managed to lift her boyfriend\'s car off the floor, saving his life when the jack collapsed, they were dumbfounded. They all knew that on normal circumstances, there is no way she could push anywhere near 80 pounds, let alone the weight of a car.
It was quite amazing, but the majority of that control group then saw a remarkable increase in the amount of weights they could push. Now it could be argued that peer pressure was at work here, that they did not want to be beaten by a mere slip of a girl, but whatever the reason, their minds all of a sudden \'took over control\' of their achievements.
So, unless your mind is fully behind what you are trying to do, then our advice would be - give up!
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