Brandon Epstein
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use them to get stronger, like to bench press more.
It was just breathing techniques along with visualization, and they're just following this ancient Eastern medicine.
So there's some breathing techniques I'm sure you do in martial arts, right?
You put your tongue behind your teeth and you can start to breathe in deeply.
And if you start to visualize bringing energy down through the crown of your head and then meeting it kind of like in the just below your belly button there, you can just start to build more energy, more power.
You're just focusing energy.
That's all you're doing.
And then if you visualize yourself lifting the weight, you're going to lift it heavier.
There's a bunch of research.
You could look up tons of different strength-based task studies that show that visualization increases strength.
That breathing exercise?
I was just stacking what was known as, like, basic PETTLEP imagery, P-E-T-T-L-E-P imagery, along with these breathing techniques and visualizing a specific way.
OK, so there's two types.
So there's like, for example, there's literally a study you could look up and it's like a bicep curl.
There's four different groups.