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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by buckminster on Sunday July 15, 2018 @02:31PM (#17536380)
Didn't some recent research show that merely visualising exercise had measurable physical benefits?
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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by spydum on Sunday July 15, 2018 @02:37PM (#17536397)
If I recall it was about weight lifting and mentally visualizing the lifts in tandem with actual exercise. Pretty sure just thinking by itself did nothing. So, it was three way comparison (lifting alone, visualizing plus lifting, and just visualizing).

Edit: this is not that study but, along the same lines .. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14998709/ pretty tiny sample though

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by fjsolwmv on Sunday July 15, 2018 @06:47PM (#17537525)
In general, visualization improves performance of ant activity.
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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by watwut on Sunday July 15, 2018 @03:11PM (#17536523)
The benefit is supposed to be that your technique will be better. Your muscles won't become stronger unless you exercise them.
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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by corin_ on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:04PM (#17537069)
There is actually some reason to believe that imagining can increase the strength, for example this study: https://web.archive.org/web/20170814100324/http://jn.physiol...
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