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repeatedly repair and find the This helps train your brain to connected to the electric socket
thread of our task at hand. dive deeper into tasks without in the wall where the lamp gets
So, how can we break this being tempted by your phone its power to light up. That is just
cycle and strengthen our ability and the digital world. like the connection between
to focus? So, you want to be a your mind and the muscles you
It requires a conscious and champion? are training. The connection has
continuous effort. And how does this apply to to be solid and continuous and
A starting point could be to you, the fitness athlete? remain intact for you to hold that
introduce periods of dedicated Well, pretty much the same mind-muscle connection. Just as
work without interruptions, such way it does to me when writing, with the lamp to make it shine.
as the Pomodoro method when but in my opinion, in an even Now imagine that after EVERY
writing. I use this method every greater way. set, you pull the socket out of
time I write. In our sport, we often talk about the wall. The light goes out
Turn off endless push the mind-muscle connection. (in our case, the mind-muscle
notifications, sounds, and This connection truly enables us connection disappears), and you
vibrations from your phone to focus on the muscle being have to stick the socket back
when you receive texts, emails, worked so that we can force that in the wall to make the lamp
or responses to posts, and find muscle to work to its full capacity shine again. This is exactly what
a quiet place to work. Perhaps and hopefully a bit beyond so that happens EVERY time you pick
even place your phone far away muscle growth occurs. up your phone between sets. You
from your workspace so you can’t Now visualize that connection lose that connection. And then
easily reach for it out of habit. being like the wire of a lamp you have to reconnect to the
26 FITNESS STYLE
