Episode 13: Voluntary Core Engagement is Disruptive with Mike Golden (Part 2)

Feel unsupported without consciously engaging your core? Wanting to dive deeper into why you don’t need to always grip and squeeze your core? Mike Golden dives into the mechanisms behind anticipatory and compensatory postural control. He explains how the spinal and neural tracts that communicate information about eye and head movement to the trunk and surrounding muscles. He dives into the importance of unpredictability and perturbations in activating the brain and allowing optimum movement execution and efficiency. Then, he dives into the research surrounding conscious core engagement, timing of postural adjustments, transverse abdominis activation, and the role perturbation plays in anticipatory core activation. Learn about how adaptable the nervous system is and how you can make movement more efficient.  Topics Covered: - Spinal Tracts and how the brain prepares for upcoming movement - mechanism of anticipatory postural adjustment - How your eye movement changes anticipatory core engagement - How to recognize movement goals? What the intention is behind muscle contraction - The calculations your brain does to prepare for movement unconsciously - Ways to show that your spine is supported without conscious core engagement - The power of unpredicted perturbation - Research around why conscious engagement may not be the best strategy = complexity of how much you need to coordinate - Research on the timing of postural adjustments - Research on how perturbation can improve anticipatory core activation - Reverting back to higher order systems to enhance performance - Neurons that wire together, fire together - Mike’s final takeaways on how everything lives in the nervous system, that is adaptable Learn More About Mike! Mike Golden is the Director of Education for Z-Health Performance Solutions, a world leader in innovating advanced, neurologically-centered rehabilitative and sports performance programs based on emerging research. Mike received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in 2005 before beginning his career teaching martial arts full time and using brain-based training to fast-track his clients’ pain and performance successes. Over the course of two decades, he has relentlessly pursued professional development through the Z-Health curriculum and in the broader fields of fitness, functional neurology, and pedagogy, and he has been leading national and international certification courses for Z-Health since 2013. Check out & learn more with Mike: Z-health Z-health Instagram Don't forget! As a listener of the core series on the Love @ First Science Podcast, you get 35% off my core workshop! Head on over to my website and use code 'relax' https://www.celestpereira.com/online-workshop My Socials: Instagram - http://instagram.com/celestpereirayoga Website - https://www.celestpereira.com/