Non-Workout Workout.

I want to conduct an experiment.

When you do a workout, your body expresses what's called MiRNA, or micro-RNA. Now MiRNA is linked with skeletal muscle growth. When breathing while exercising, you will breathe out some of this MiRNA.

So far, no problem - it's standard science. Now here comes the good bit. If you stand in a gym, surrounded by sweaty bodies doing high intensity workouts, you're breathing in their exhaled MiRNA which, when you breathe it in, makes your body think it's also doing a workout - or so the theory goes.

The experiment would be to join a gym, but on a reduced subscription - as I wouldn't be using any of the equipment - and simply stand there for an hour at a time. Theoretically I should start putting on muscle.