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Just Imagining a Workout Can Make You Stronger

bet when you woke up this morning, even before you opened your eyes, you knew where all of your limbs were. You didn’t have to look at, or try moving them, to feel their presence. This is because you have the power of proprioception (it’s also sometimes called “kinesthesis”). Because it’s a sense, just like hearing and seeing, you can have mental imagery specific to it. That’s what motor imagery is—just as visual imagery as visual perception, motor

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