Movement Health

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  Training Awareness- “Time under Attention” & Recruitment Efficiency

  Don’t underestimate the value of cognitive control training for developing coordination & muscle recruitment efficiency and ultimately movement economy. Training Time under Attention improves recruitment efficiency, awareness and control.
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  Muscle Specific: ‘Time under Tension’

  Investing time in strengthening? Ensure your exercise is fatiguing the targeted muscle. Rather than whole body exercise this focused approach efficiently resolves ‘weak-links’ in the movement chain, accelerating your progress towards goals. Train the ‘brakes’ as well as the ‘accelerators’!
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  Want More Flexibility?

  Think Extensibility: Target 2 joint muscles and add sustained loading or time under inhibitory tension. Restoring viscoelastic tissue extensibility or gaining new muscle length? Understand the difference!
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  Synergies and Skill Acquisition

  The acquisition of skill requires the adaptation of muscle synergies (functional groupings of muscles). As one acquires skill there is adaptation of the sequencing and timing of muscle recruitment.
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  Optimal Movement Variability- How much is enough? How much is too little?

  There is no ‘ideal’ movement state, but a window of optimal movement variability for the individual, pursuing a task under the then current environmental/performance constraints. Optimal can also be thought of simply as “stable when needed and flexible when relevant”.
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  What Allows us to Learn? Working Memory, Attention Control & Fluid Intelligence

  Our movement system specialists coach movement – providing attentional cueing to accelerate your learning. Whether beginner or expert, the appropriate form of attentional focus (internal or external, reflective or pre-reflective) will allow you to hone your skills.