Can we feel muscle activation?

The mind-muscle connection is a concept from bodybuilding circles that made it into exercise science. The mind-muscle connection refers to our ability to sense how well a muscle is being trained and our ability to selectively activate our target muscles during an exercise. The idea is that a good neural connection between your brain and a muscle allows you to feel how well you’re training that muscle and thereby adjust your program. For example, a bodybuilder may forsake an exercise because they can’t get a good mind-muscle connection and replace it with an exercise they feel more strongly in their...[Read More]