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Meditative Lifting

London Posts: 176 Joined: 2003/01/10	2003/06/29, 09:30 AM Has anyone tried this or done any research on it? I've ben taking a Zen Buddhism class and tried applying meditation techniques to my lifting last week. Basically I normally put on some aggressive music and try to get my rage up to really push myself. Well with the meditative lifting I put on soothing music and lowered and raised the bar slower than usualy concentrating on each muscle as I felt it move. The strange thing is that I could actually lift more using this method. Anyone else have thought on this type of lifting? I have read that is is good to have explosive energy going up and to come down really slow, but is going up and down slow also ok?
richardjst Posts: 410 Joined: 2002/07/13	2003/06/29, 10:26 AM It is good to trick the muscles and train them in different ways all the time. Great BB like Arnold, platz, and Columbia new this and almost always went into the gym trying to trick their muscles into growth. Without any wind a pond will be still and start to fill with moss, it takes agitation and a few waves to keep moving. To keep moving you have to agitate the muscle and create a few new waves. -------------- Diet- Only take what you need...There is no fine line between want and need, there is the whole continent of South America.~Dick
JessicaR Posts: 467 Joined: 2002/08/12	2003/06/29, 05:03 PM I've never gone in with that in mind but I always find weight lifting meditative. It takes so much concentration to lift and control the weights that I almost always leave w/ my mind clear.
jdansby Posts: 6 Joined: 2003/06/18	2003/06/30, 08:34 PM Good one I will try some Zen Shakuhachi music next W/O instead of heavy metal. Good advice, and thanks I follow Zen. BTW, are you a vegan Zen? Can you be a vegetarian and lift? I would think so but you obviously would need extra proteins.