Today I would like to tell you about scizophrenia powers.

 

Believing a random screenshot from Twitter is dumb of course, but if you will google the key words you will quickly find multiple studies on the subject.

So, yeah, you just become stronger. Everyone knows of placebo effect and this is somewhat similar, by imagining lifting a heavy object your neural pathways receive the same input as if lifting the real one and improve their work to a certain extent. Perharps it is more like learning a skill, studies on which also were conducted where two groups of basketball players were tested with throwing from far distance, one was tasked to daily imagine throwing the ball into the basket and the other one was prohibited to do that and after a month performance of the former group was significantly better than the latter one. So, back to the point, imagining muscle contractions on a regular basis (4 times a week, but it is not hard to meditate like that y'know, so you can do everyday without a problem) will increase strength in muscles affected by the imagined motion/exercise but size will not grow because you are essentially doing a workout for your nerves, not muscles themselves. Furthermore, obviously, imagining a harder exercise will grant more strength gains, so imagining lifting something heavy is better than imagining lifting someting light. That's it.