Your doctor should be jumping all over this to prevent your muscles from atrophying. But you won't get a stroke protocol from them because it wasn't taught in medical school. You don't want to do this on your own because of the extreme dangers of mental imagery.
How To Grow Muscles Without Lifting Weights
Has your dream come true: a six-pack without moving a muscle?
Simply imagining exercising muscles can have a similar effect to hitting the gym, a new study finds.
Although mental imagery has long been used in sports, this is the first study to show that mental imagery can slow or even stop muscle loss resulting from inactivity.
Professor Brian Clark, director of the Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute, and study leader, said:
“We wanted to tease out the underlying physiology between the nervous system and muscles to better understand the brain’s role in muscle weakness.”
In the study, published in the journal Neurophysiology, healthy people had their hands and wrists immobilised in a cast for four weeks (Clark et al., 2014).
During this time one group did no exercise, while another imagined strong muscle contractions in their wrists.
They did this for just 11 minutes, five times a week.
The other groups just sat still for the same amount of time.
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