You may not need to actually go to the gym to get the benefits of a gym workout.
Just imaging yourself there may do the job. Dave Smith, a sports psychology
researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University in England, gathered 18 men
and had 6 of them contact their pinkie fingers as hard as they could for 20
minutes a day, to times a week. Six others were instructed to just imagine themselves
doing the exercises. And a third group of six did
nothing at all. After 30 days, the pinkies of the first group were 33% stronger.
Those of the control group we unchanged. But the men who visualized themselves
doing pinkie crunches actually increased their strength by 16%.
reported in Natural Health magazine, 3/99