Mind Over Matter

[hoodooman]

Sit back in your easy chair recliner with your legs on the foot rest and then do one arm push ups with a 20 pound dumb bell till you are too tired to continue.

Then lift one of your legs off of the footrest. To me it feels as if it only weighs about a pound.

Isn't that sort of mind over matter, considering the fact that your leg is much heavier than a pound.

 

[trendlover]

Quote from hoodooman:

Sit back in your easy chair recliner with your legs on the foot rest and then do one arm push ups with a 20 pound dumb bell till you are too tired to continue.

Then lift one of your legs off of the footrest. To me it feels as if it only weighs about a pound.

Isn't that sort of mind over matter, considering the fact that your leg is much heavier than a pound.

Leverage because you use other muscle like stomach, butt, back to lift your leg?

 

[hoodooman]

The foot feels so light that its hard to tell which muscles I'm using.

 

[FredBloggs]

may be youve just got a hard-on?

 

[sjfan]

How is this "mind over matter" except in the most literal possible reading of the phrase? It's just a well known effect of experiencing muscle fatigue and failure

Quote from hoodooman:

The foot feels so light that its hard to tell which muscles I'm using.