Fuggetaboutit

You ever hear about people who knew a foreign language as a kid, and aged out of it.

“If young children completely lose the exposure to a language they have been speaking, they will most likely forget it. If there is no need, nor opportunity to speak a language a child will not retain a language.”

The door’s always open to relearning the forgotten tongue. They just need to study, or re-immerse themselves.

Same thing with movement. We all start off as great movers in childhood, but lose much of our mobility and flexibility as we age. The brain, sensing no need/given no opportunity, conveniently forgets movement maps. It's called Sensory motor amnesia. Why would our brains devote energy to something we never ask it to do?

We forget what graceful and capable movers we once were. We start to say:

“I'm just not flexible.”

“I can't touch my toes.”

"I can't move without pain.”

Can't is a four letter word. So F that noise.

Just as you can relearn a language you can relearn movement.

Get Strong. Move well. Feel Good. That’s what we’re selling.

Movement re-education

Sensory motor what?

It’s “a phenomenon in which individuals lose both sensory awareness and muscular control of certain parts of their bodies. They no longer have the ability to sense which muscles are being held in a state of chronic tightness and which are relaxed.

Muscles held in a perpetual state of contraction will invariably become painful due to ischemia (low blood flow, like the white knuckles of a clenched fist).

Sensory Motor Amnesia is a conditioned response in the brain resulting from injury, long-term stress, or postural distortion.

Following injury, the brain sends signals to the body to recoil from movement of the injured area. This is a natural and positive response, aimed at protecting the body from further injury.

However, if conscious, active movement is not initiated after the injury has healed, the original reflexive contraction may remain.

Your brain is all about livin’ man. As in survival. Not performance. To that end it can be overprotective; and when that happens we lose our ability to really move.

What to do?

Just as you can relearn a forgotten language, so too can you reclaim your bodies ability to move well.

Whatever your movement deficits, whatever your story, you can get better. Targeted movement is the cure for sensory motor amnesia. The more unique/safe movement your brain/body are exposed to the better.

You will get humbled. You will fall, and ache. You’ll feel like giving up; you’ll question whether or not you’re on the right path.

That’s when a Coach is most valuable. We know how to train you through unique/safe movement patterns; and the difference between the right movement and the almost right movement is the difference between “the lightning bug and the lightning.”

Experienced eyes, with a tool box of stretches, exercises and drills can bring the lightning on command.

When it’s your body, moving freely, feeling that lightning; that’s livin’ Man. L-i-v-i-n.