How It Works
At Neuro Train, we focus on a few different concepts:
You Are Your Brain
"Everything you have ever felt or done in your life was due to brain function. At the most basic level, the intricate firing rates and patterns of your brain both determine who you have been and, more importantly, who you will become. All human change represents changes in that individual's nervous system. All that we are is brain-derived."
Your brain's number one job is survival
90% of the brain is wired for answering, "How dangerous is this?" Stress is the number one offender. It is the one thing that decreases performance, creates pain and stiffness, and it is the number one contributor to degeneration and disease.
The Bucket Effect
Think of your nervous system as a bucket that catches threat like water. As the threats continue to pour in, the level raises higher until it finally reaches its threshold (metaphorically a spout). At this point symptoms and undesired effects from those threats start to leak out of the spout causing a number of obvious side effects from the threat response:
Flexed Forward "Rounded" Posture
Increased Tension and Weakness
Pain
"Tunnel Vision"
Diminished Coordination and Mobility
Increased Blood Pressure and Blood Sugar
Compromised Immune System
Poor Balance
Vertigo, Motion Sickness, or Dizziness
Systems That Can Cause Stress:
These systems provide input to the brain and can cause stress if they aren't performing well.
The Visual System - More than just focus and clarity
The Inner Ear/Vestibular System - Our balance center that tells us which way is up and which way we are going
The Proprioceptive System - The locator and mover of our body parts
The Fuel System - Both breathing and food processing
If any of these systems are not performing well it can be perceived as a threat and physical/mental performance can go down. You don't even need to have an actual injury to experience pain, immobility, or any of the other side effects!
Why Does Our No-Fail System Work?
Prediction.
Our brains keep us alive through pattern recognition (aka Prediction). By correcting deficits in any of the above systems we improve the input the brain is receiving. This makes it easier for our brain to predict how we are moving and correct movement in real-time based off the information it's receiving. Just like a GPS our brain communicates with these different systems in order to help us do what we want to do and go where we want to go with the most efficient course possible.
Much like a GPS if the satellites (or in this case input systems) are giving conflicting information it makes it harder for us to figure out where we are going so we slow down. Basically, our brain "puts on the brakes" with our movement through pain, weakness, or tension because the information it is receiving is unreliable.
When we address the deficits in these systems the results are instantaneous and dramatic! Performance and mobility increase significantly and pain, tension, and weakness vanish!
Our Perspective
How we approach health, fitness and training