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Nervous vs. Respiratory System & Performance

Preface We’ve all heard the stories regarding instantaneous superhuman strength. The mother who lifts a car off her child who’s trapped underneath it, the man who involuntarily launches himself across the room after receiving a total body electrical shock, or the soldier who moved a one-ton helicopter off his comrade’s trapped body. While many of […]

The Missing Piece in Designing Your Training Program – The Autonomic Nervous System. Part 3 – Application

Part one of this series covered the very basic physiology of the autonomic nervous system. Part two discussed some of the many practical assessment strategies of the ANS. Here in part three we’ll uncover some practical applications for your programming.

The Missing Piece in Designing Your Training Program – the Autonomic Nervous System. Part 2: Assessment

In our last installment, we reviewed the mechanistic effects of both good and bad autonomic balance. We discussed how constantly leaving your athletes in a state of sympathetic dominance will cause your training program to underachieve and absolute level results to decline either acutely, chronically, or both. Here in part 2, we'll elucidate assessment strategies […]

The Missing Piece in Designing Your Training Program – the Autonomic Nervous System. Part 1: The Science

Knowing physiology is great but applying that knowledge to our program design is what we’re all after. This three part series will discuss the selective science (part 1), assessment (part 2), and application (part 3) of particular physiological aspects in relation to athletic performance, “conditioning”, and longevity. I chose this topic because I feel […]