The Optimal Body

309 | How to Improve Mind-Body Muscle Connection


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Feeling certain muscles and not others? DocJen and Dr. Dom dive into mind-body muscle connection and how to coordinate the the awareness around your muscles. With 5 ways to improve mind-body muscle connection, they describe the roll of touch, vision, doing something different, going barefoot, and just moving in improving mind-body muscle connection.

Adapting High Intensity for Every Body. DocJen, a doctor of physical therapy, and Jill Miller, a Myofascial expert, come together to bridge the gap between post-rehabilitation and highly functional fitness. Your PT isn’t gonna teach this to you once you finish your rehab and your coach may not have the kinesiological tools to regress speed/intensity/intervals to a level that’s beneficial for your longevity. Who better than Jen and Jill to share with you the Science of Rolling & HIIT and best practices tailored for YOU! This program combines decades of clinical and industry expertise in the worlds of Physical Therapy, mobility, fascia science, HIIT (high-intensity interval training) and regeneration in a mash-up that helps bodies at any age and stage of injury or fitness to prepare their bodies for a successful high-intensity fitness program.  

  • You’ll be pampered and prepared with evidence-backed self-myofascial release strategies and learn to integrate your joints, muscles and soft tissues so that intensity will help you rather than harm. 
  • You’ll ignite your body and brain’s tactile communication system known as proprioception so that you can better inhabit the shapes of acceleration and decelartion that HIIT targets. 
  • You’ll reap the benefits of heart-pounding movement while keeping your joints safe and supple. You’ll also learn breath control and soft tissue recovery tactics that hasten deep sleep and bring you through robust adaptation cycles that gift you a better tomorrow.
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    What You Will Learn In This PT Pearl:

    02:36 – Where mind body connection is used?

    03:30– Mechanical feedback

    08:05– Using visual feedback

    10:57 – What it means to do something different!

    14:46 – Go Barefoot 

    19:10 – Just move - what components to think about!

    21:57 – A program to improve your mind body connection


    To Watch the PT Pearl on YouTube, click here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/watch/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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