Visualization is a primary function to attain everything that our hearts' do desire. The visualization aspects of VRT will help you make good choices for your future.
All things are a choice. Choose what it is you want or will become.
Once you have chosen your goals, and you have come to a degree of prioritization as to what is the most important, what is of secondary importance and even tertiary importance, the aspect of visualizing and believing comes into play and is very necessary to speed up attainment of the goal.
Focus on the goal and desire it. It is what you want. Keep your mind free of thoughts of things that you do not want. Make that goal real; see it, feel it, even hear it. Create an imaginary situation in which you attain it, using as many of your senses as you can; make that vision as real as possible. Go into a gentle state of meditation, and say to yourself, "this is what I want." Let it slowly subside into your subconscious; in other words, come out of your meditation and forget about it.
The "mind over matter" situation will take over your life and make for you the goals that you engender. All you have to do is believe. And let it take place on its own terms.
Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
VRT and Neuromuscular Coordination
Various studies have been done on the VRT technique by Russian exercise physiologists in the mid-nineteen eighties. They dubbed this ancient system of exercise "pumping imaginary iron", or more specifically, "mock weightlifting."
A variety of tests were done on factors done on conduction velocity, and their summation was that this system of exercise "increases neuromuscular coordination and speed of movement" as evidenced by an increase of contractions in the sarcomere (muscle cells). Evidently the myoneural junction (junction between nerve and muscle) has a tendency to secrete the neurotransmitter acetylcholine across the synaptic gap at a much greater velocity. Coordination would be directly related to faster movement of the muscles.
Students of the VRT System can find themselves at an advantage in athletic situations regarding speed and coordination; everything from tennis, badminton, track and basketball to running and wrestling.
Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
A variety of tests were done on factors done on conduction velocity, and their summation was that this system of exercise "increases neuromuscular coordination and speed of movement" as evidenced by an increase of contractions in the sarcomere (muscle cells). Evidently the myoneural junction (junction between nerve and muscle) has a tendency to secrete the neurotransmitter acetylcholine across the synaptic gap at a much greater velocity. Coordination would be directly related to faster movement of the muscles.
Students of the VRT System can find themselves at an advantage in athletic situations regarding speed and coordination; everything from tennis, badminton, track and basketball to running and wrestling.
Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Vasocongestion in VRT and Weight Training
The closest form of resemblance that VRT has with weight training is the concept of vasocongestion, commonly referred to as "the Pump."
The brilliance of VRT is pitting a flexor against an extensor, and thus creating a demanding relationship on the vascular network of the muscle group involved, much in the same way as the pump that is created in a weight training movement. The result is vasocongestion, the muscle-swelling 'pump.'
The level of vasocongestion is really a matter of controversy, for for the most part it is not measurable, but it is comparable to the feeling that is generated as a pump from weight training. And as Sigmund Freud said, the "greatest decisions are best left up to feelings." It is with that that I agree 100%.
Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
The brilliance of VRT is pitting a flexor against an extensor, and thus creating a demanding relationship on the vascular network of the muscle group involved, much in the same way as the pump that is created in a weight training movement. The result is vasocongestion, the muscle-swelling 'pump.'
The level of vasocongestion is really a matter of controversy, for for the most part it is not measurable, but it is comparable to the feeling that is generated as a pump from weight training. And as Sigmund Freud said, the "greatest decisions are best left up to feelings." It is with that that I agree 100%.
Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Various Places for VRT Exercises
VRT is such an adaptable exercise that it can be done virtually anywhere, anytime, and in any place. Take for example waiting at a bus stop. One could do a standing VRT-style bench press, or VRT dumbbell curls, a VRT tricep press, a VRT military press, or VRT squats. Without moving from your spot. While no one is looking, of course.
The various places and situations where these could be performed is limitless; strolling through a supermarket, for instance, one could perform one-armed curls while pushing the cart with the other arm; stopping to look at the meat while doing squats; doing imaginary one-armed pull-ups while heading down the frozen pizza section; doing imaginary dead-lifts while opening the ice cream freezer door, and other various situations.
Really, just as the imagination allows you to do any one of various exercises, so too are the situations that one can do them in offer an endless number of times and places to do it in. No gym is needed. No special place is needed. It can be done throughout anyone's day.
Greg Mangan
VRT Man
The various places and situations where these could be performed is limitless; strolling through a supermarket, for instance, one could perform one-armed curls while pushing the cart with the other arm; stopping to look at the meat while doing squats; doing imaginary one-armed pull-ups while heading down the frozen pizza section; doing imaginary dead-lifts while opening the ice cream freezer door, and other various situations.
Really, just as the imagination allows you to do any one of various exercises, so too are the situations that one can do them in offer an endless number of times and places to do it in. No gym is needed. No special place is needed. It can be done throughout anyone's day.
Greg Mangan
VRT Man
Saturday, February 9, 2008
VRT System Keeps Joints Rejuvenated
The system of visualized resistance does a great deal to spare the synovial membranes of the human body. Those membranes are in every movable joint of the human body from the knuckle joints, toe joints, and elbows to the spinal column and neck.
The act of lifting weights, whether dumbbells, barbells, or the plates of a universal machine, compress the synovial membrane and can cause an early and arthritic deterioration of the membrane. Visualized Resistance Training [VRT] can create vasocongestion of the particular muscle group and create an increase in skeletomuscular size and strength, but completely spare the synovial membrane from the gravitational compression that will create "busted up weightlifter's syndrome".
Advocates of VRT never complain of joint problems the way that life-long advocates of weight training do. The spinal column especially does not show any problems related to disc compression [the name given the synovial membranes in the spinal column] or heniated ["slipped"] discs. The suggestion is to try VRT to avoid joint problems of any kind, yet increase strength, speed, and coordination.
Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
The act of lifting weights, whether dumbbells, barbells, or the plates of a universal machine, compress the synovial membrane and can cause an early and arthritic deterioration of the membrane. Visualized Resistance Training [VRT] can create vasocongestion of the particular muscle group and create an increase in skeletomuscular size and strength, but completely spare the synovial membrane from the gravitational compression that will create "busted up weightlifter's syndrome".
Advocates of VRT never complain of joint problems the way that life-long advocates of weight training do. The spinal column especially does not show any problems related to disc compression [the name given the synovial membranes in the spinal column] or heniated ["slipped"] discs. The suggestion is to try VRT to avoid joint problems of any kind, yet increase strength, speed, and coordination.
Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
Friday, January 25, 2008
VRT - The Importance of Focus
The element of focus has come up again and again in obtaining the most out of Visualized Resistance Training.
The idea of focusing on a specific immovable object or objects seems to magnify the effect of visualization. As with all goals, if for instance one has a specific desire to be a doctor, while in undergraduate pre-med training one must focus fully and completely on the idea of being a physician, and picture practicing medicine in a hospital or doctor's office. With that specific focus in mind, day in and day out, imagining it with full sensory acuity, the subconscious will take that person to that position which he or she has so desired. Focus will bring it about.
Likewise, the amount of focus one puts into the visualization of lifting heavy weights, lifting a car or an elephant, pushing a semi into the air, etc., will neuroligically push the muscle to its greatest flexion, and its most massive vasocongestion (pump), which forces the muscles to grow.
It is said that "we become what we think about", or "we attract what we think about." With practice on the increase of mental focus, visualized resistance can only become better for the individual.
Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
The idea of focusing on a specific immovable object or objects seems to magnify the effect of visualization. As with all goals, if for instance one has a specific desire to be a doctor, while in undergraduate pre-med training one must focus fully and completely on the idea of being a physician, and picture practicing medicine in a hospital or doctor's office. With that specific focus in mind, day in and day out, imagining it with full sensory acuity, the subconscious will take that person to that position which he or she has so desired. Focus will bring it about.
Likewise, the amount of focus one puts into the visualization of lifting heavy weights, lifting a car or an elephant, pushing a semi into the air, etc., will neuroligically push the muscle to its greatest flexion, and its most massive vasocongestion (pump), which forces the muscles to grow.
It is said that "we become what we think about", or "we attract what we think about." With practice on the increase of mental focus, visualized resistance can only become better for the individual.
Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
Saturday, January 19, 2008
VRT: Bi-directional or One Direction only?
Much controversy has come up with students of the VRT system doing the imaginary weight training in one direction, or in both directions...i.e., tension at the outset, and tension in coming back to the start of the movement.
In my original development of this course, I recommended that the movement most clearly be a facsimile of reality; in other words, the movement imitate a real lift, both in the vision, sound, touch, even smell (if that's possible). And that is tension in one direction. But John McSweeney's version, which John Peterson called the Miracle 7, recommended tension in both directions.
I leave this to the individual practicioner. I have done both. I think one direction is the most "megapumping", but one may find more comfort, vigor, and energy in practicing tension in both directions.
Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
In my original development of this course, I recommended that the movement most clearly be a facsimile of reality; in other words, the movement imitate a real lift, both in the vision, sound, touch, even smell (if that's possible). And that is tension in one direction. But John McSweeney's version, which John Peterson called the Miracle 7, recommended tension in both directions.
I leave this to the individual practicioner. I have done both. I think one direction is the most "megapumping", but one may find more comfort, vigor, and energy in practicing tension in both directions.
Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
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