Test your knowledge with this quiz on common weight-bearing exercises and their target muscles. You can use what you learn to help sharpen your mind-muscle connection.
When lifting weights, you might just be focused on finishing your set or rep. But getting the most out of your workout may be more nuanced than that.
There’s something called the mind-muscle connection. As its name suggests, it refers to mental awareness of the target muscle you’re working during exercise, particularly resistance training such as weightlifting.
This isn’t just passively thinking about the muscle as you move through the motions, but rather deliberately and actively creating a mental connection to the specific muscle you’re using.
You might need to perform your sets more slowly than usual to build a strong mind-muscle connection.
We created this quiz to help you build this link. Test your knowledge of which muscles common exercises work, and use what you learn to strengthen your mind-muscle connection.
Quiz disclaimerThe exercises in this quiz — some body weight, some weightlifting — work more than one muscle. To help with clarity and brevity, we seek the answers that best work the muscles mentioned.