For today's post I am very pleased to offer a guest submission from Jamie Hale, M.S. Jamie is an experimental researcher specializing in behavioral nutrition and cognitive science.
Read MoreI recently had the privilege of attending a continuing education class at Athletes Performance in Arizona, which is one of the top athletic training facilities in the country, run by Mark Verstegen. It's a beautiful facility, with a nice grass field, an amazing workout room, and lots of elite athletes walking around and training. It was a very fun atmosphere and I was all geeked out. There are many things that I would like to write about from this experience (including the excellent DNSclasses that I was attending while there), but for now I just wanted to make a few brief observations about the way the athletes spent their time.
Read MoreI just watched a nice TED talk by neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert on how the brain controls movement. Check it out below.
Read MoreI just read a great quote from Steven Pinker that I wanted to share. In case you haven’t heard of Pinker, he’s a very smart guy who writes excellent books on How the Mind Works and other stuff. Here he is describing his efforts to understand the complex system of the brain:
Read MoreWhen you train a particular body area, what exactly adapts to make an improvement? One interesting source of insight into these questions comes from studies where they train just one limb and then see whether the performance of the untrained limb changes in some way.
Read MoreI did an interview! With Will Stewart. Will is the owner of 3-D Optimum Performance and he just decided to start interviewing everyone in sight who thinks the nervous system is the primary target for manual therapy or athletic training.
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