Neuro
Fitness is an interesting approach to
fat loss for 3 main reasons:
1. It
leads to faster fat loss
2. More muscle contracts with each exercise
3. Improved coordination with decreased
risk of injury
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How Neuro Fitness
Helps You Lose Fat More Quickly:
By teaching
your nervous system how to properly contract
muscle, your body will start building muscle
more easily (remember, muscle = your metabolism,
so building muscle is important even when
you don't want to get bigger.) You see, nerve
signals tell muscle to shorten, which leads
to a muscle contraction. Here's how this works:
Nerve
signal travels from brain down to your spinal
cord, then from your trunk to your arms and
legs.
Brain
====> Spinal Cord & Trunk Muscles ===>
Arms/Legs
It's pretty simple, actually. Your brain controls
the initiation of nerve signals, your muscles
react according to the instructions your brain
provides, and then your joints have little
nerve receptors that provide feedback to your
brain and let it know how everything ended
up. The feedback receptors are called Proprioceptors,
and they deal with position sense (where your
body is in space.)
The faster (&
more accurate) your nerve speed, the more
muscle you get to use in any given exercise.
The more muscle you use, the higher the metabolic
demand of exercise. With increased metabolic
demand your body starts to burn calories in
overdrive mode hours after you leave the gym.
(this is referred to as EPOC)
How Neuro Fitness Helps More Muscle Contract
With Each Exercise:
Ok, so enough
about where the motor signal comes from. There's
actually another signal that's really important
if you want to activate as much muscle as
possible. That's known as your 'Premotor Signal'.
You must be
wondering how all of this applies to your
fat loss program. Well, let me break it down
for you - with enhanced signaling strength
& motor pathways, your body is going to
be able to perform movement with less effort,
thereby allowing the 'Premotor Area' of your
brain to start working harder. The 'Premotor
Area' is your movement planning center. By
properly learning to activate your movement
planning center, you can increase contractile
strength by up to 30%. Pretty crazy, huh?
By learning
how to plan a movement in a language that
makes sense for your brain, you can lift 30%
more. That means you are leaving 30% of your
strength on the table every time you work
out. It's no wonder you're not getting results
fast enough.
How Neuro Fitness Leads To Improved Coordination
With Decreased Risk Of Injury:
Remember talking
about proprioceptors (position sensors) up
there? Well, once your body learns a movement
over a period of about 6 weeks, something
called 'Plasticity' takes place. This is a
chemical change in your brain where grooves
& bumps (sulci & gyri) develop to
represent movement. Your brain actually becomes
more organized and a permanent (or "plastic")
change takes place.
That's why people
say the famous quote, "It's just like
riding a bike" when they say it's easy
to pick back up on something. That's where
'Muscle Memory' comes from - Plasticity.
Well, with plasticity
taking place, your body no longer has to tense
every muscle up and hold on for dear life
every time you do a pull up, and it knows
exactly where to go. Your brain is no longer
telling you that the weights may come crashing
down on your head when you do bench press
or skull crushers.
Now, your body
can work on fluidity of movement, or coordination.
With improved coordination, it's less likely
to pull a muscle or move a joint out of place.
With increased coordination, you're more likely
to last longer with each set, because only
the intended muscles are being targeted.
If you last
longer on each set, you get more work done.
If you get more work done, you lose fat faster.
And around and around we go... I've put together
a Neuro Fat Loss & Fitness website that
will teach you everything we discussed above
and provide you with insanely effective neuro
fat loss workouts that you can start doing
today:
http://PerpetualFatLoss.com
