dude, jeff nippard is a nerd and he's reached the 7th kingdom of nerdom.
there's only so much you can milk out of picking up heavy metal and putting it back down.
this dude is putting in extra hours to extract more.
just fucking lift and get the weights higher every week.
this nerd shit has gone way too far.

my only experience is my pecs twitched post heavy bench
it was only after I made the connection & could make them bounce

>>75613393
Might be lifting too heavy so for example when you curl instead of just using your bicep your using your back to help lift

Try lowering weight just to get the connection then lift heavy

Also try squeezing your muscles at the top of the rep

Yes its a meme

I have significantly improved my mind muscle connection in two ways

1) slower eccentrics and pause reps holding the tension rather than just resting the bar on the chest (taking bench as an example)
2) when I'm high I find my mind muscle connection is crazy so I do a body scan before I sleep, this has carried over to when I'm sober
2)

So should i be flexing the muscle im trying to work while lifting? Like flexing my biceps on curls or my lats on pull ups? Ive been lifting like 15 years and never have done this and still have gotten rather strong.

>>75613393
Not a meme at all. Very important. Bodybuilders and athletes have understood how crucial it is to feel the muscles you want to work doing the work long before this term for it appeared.

Your body *wants* to lift as efficiently as it can, it doesn't want to rely on the smaller muscles like the biceps. It wants to put the load on your traps, your lats, your legs, the really big strong muscles. You have to consciously overpower your natural urges to include those muscles when doing isolation work. A few things you can do to help engage the muscles you want:
>Do a light weight, slow isolation lift before your compounds (i.e. one light set of pec deck or flies, really focused on using your pecs, before you start benching).
>Feel the muscle you want to use with your other hand (gently squeeze or prod your bicep when doing one handed curls)
>Figure out which position makes it harder for other muscles to join in on the lift (like close grip for bench, etc)

>>75613868
>So should i be flexing the muscle im trying to work while lifting?
as opposed to what lmao?

>>75613393

Practically everything you listed is a compound movement. In those your weaknesses are always going to be the things your mind is drawn to the most, because they will be the cause of failure or injury if your technique or strength isn't sufficient. This is why technique is so crucial-it allows your strong points to actually be strong. Compound movements you should be like a pilot performing a mental checklist of all the systems to you need to test and activate before engaging main engines.
Isolation movements are easier to do mind muscle connection because all the impulse and focus is just on one muscle. Big compounds will always be harder to achieve the same effect because by definition you're activating more at once.

>>75614105
So what are you trying to tell me? Concentrate more during compounds? Work on my technique?

>>75613884
>Bodybuilders and athletes have understood how crucial it is to feel the muscles
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
Bodybuilders train like retards, snap their shit up, get lifelong injuries and STILL win competitions because they've got steroids and the genetics to make good use of said steroids. How they train is irrelevant to me, as I am neither an athlete nor a bodybuilder.
Your other points are solid but I just had to comment on the one mentioned above.

>>75613393
kek you learn about muscle connection and then figure out compound exercises suck and don't hit the target muscle fully. That's why you need to hit isolations either before or after the compound e.g. I do leg extensions before squats although most people do them after so they can ego lift more in the squat