Key Z Health R Phase Review Concept #7: Enemies of Efficiency and Sensory motor amnesia
October 13th, 2009
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by Mike T Nelson · Filed Under: Mobility · Z-Health · athletic performance · neurology · neuroplasticity
Series Content
- Z-Health Athletic Performance System: Behind The Curtains Part 1
- Z-Health Athletic Performance System Review: Concept #2 The SAID Principle
- Key Z Health R Phase Review Concept #4: The 3 Rs of R Phase Why is it called R-Phase?
- Key Z Health R Phase Review Concept #5: “All the body all the time”
- Key Z Health R Phase Review Concept #6: Optimal Motor Learning
- Key Z Health R Phase Review Concept #7: Enemies of Efficiency and Sensory motor amnesia
- Key Z Health R Phase Concept Review #8: 4 Elements of Efficiency
- Key Z Health R Phase Review Concept #9: The Neuromatrix of Pain
Key Z Health R Phase Review Concept #7
The concepts covered in Z Health continue on and make sure to see a few of the previous ones below if you missed them.
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Key Z Health R Phase Review Concept #6: Optimal Motor Learning
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Key Z Health R Phase Review Concept #5: All the Body All the Time
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Key Z Health R Phase Review Concept #4: The 3 Rs of R Phase Why is it called R-Phase?
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Key Z Health R Phase Review Concept #3: Why focus on the nervous system?
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Z Health Athletic Performance System Review: Concept #2 The SAID Principle
Sensory motor amnesia (SMA)
This term was first coined by Dr. Thomas Hanna and describes a process where you have lost sensation of certain parts of your body! Sounds crazy, but if you can not feel it, do you think you will have a loss of performance? You betcha (see, I am from Minnesota and I am having hot dish for dinner with a lutefisk chaser; I know you are jealous).
Startle Reflex
This is a hard wired reflex in everyone. You can learn to modify it, but it impossible to extinguish it completely. The body is survival based, not performance based. Personally, I think this sucks, but I can’t change it.
To get a performance increase, you need to teach the body how to survive better.
Increased survival potential is a way to “back door” performance increase. By learning to watch for startle, you can gage your performance. In general, if you are going into startle you will need to drop the load on your lift. Now you may be able to lift it, but long term you are not doing yourself any favors by constantly going into startle every time.
Andy Bolton deadlifts1008 lbs for a new world record
Watch Benedikt Magnusson do a 1100 Pound Deadlift
Watch Benedikt Magnusson’s training for the deadlift.
Is he making it look hard?
I LOVE watching those video!!
What did you see?
Even though it is a world record for Andy Bolton and the other lifts are nuts, there is minimal startle. Bolton’s face is still relatively calm. He makes it LOOK easy. That is your goal. Make it LOOK easy. All the greats do that, from Wayne Gretzky, to Michael Jordan, to Tiger Woods to Barry Sanders.
Any comments, post away at the bottom!
Rock on
PS
Here is an article for more information on the concepts above that I wrote for XL Athlete
XL Athlete Dysfunctional Exercise Cues By Mike T Nelson
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Great post Mike. Love the vids.
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Thanks Todd! I could watch those vids all day too!
Rock on
Mike T Nelson
[...] Finally, Gray Cook in Athletic Body in Balance reminds us that you need to constantly be looking for your weakest link. As athletes and people, we tend to play to our strengths, which is great, but also holds us back. If you can do a 2x BW DL but not a rock-bottom deep squat, then maybe mobility or flexibility is your weakest link. If you can run for miles with ease but have knee pain after practice, maybe you (after you consult with medical / fitness professionals) need more strength / activation in your posterior chain (get off that treadmill!). Maybe you need soft tissue work–today at a tourney I was in serious TMJ pain which I localized to a trigger point in my SCM, and even though my energy systems were raring to go, you can’t do much when you’re in serious pain & startle (soo unlike these guys!). [...]
Yes, you need to find the weak point and work to eliminate it!
The body works as a whole, as you pointed out from first hand experience.
Thanks for the comments!
Rock on
Mike T Nelson
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