PROPRIOCEPTION
Proprioception is not a "thing" that you learn once and forget; it`s a sense that has to be maintained daily,even by top athletes
HOW PROPRIOCEPTION WORKS
Your spatial awareness hums in the background,much like a computer`s operating system.
1.NEUROMUSCULAR CONTROL
2.NERVE ENDINGS
3.SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM
4.SPINDLES
5.GOLGI TENDON ORGANS
6.SENSORY INTEGRATION .
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: HOW YOU CAN BUILD YOUR PROPRIOCEPTION:
That brings us to the question:will improving your proprioception make you abetter runner,lifter, or athelete? will it help you avoid some lifes small indigni-ties, like knocking over a glass of water at dinner or banging your knee when walking through a dark room?
Many trainors would answer that question with an emphatic "yes".
one reason to work on your proprioception is to prevent injury.Tears,sprains,and breaks are most often caused by movements errors.An ankle sprain,for example, is typicall,y the result of an awkward landing. Training your proprioception by stimulating both your receptors and your brain -could, in theory, help you prevent your first injury, you`re helping yourself prevent any subsequent ones.
Less theoretical is the practice of proprioceptive training to prevent recurring injuries. for instance,a study in the British Medical Journal looked at athletes who`d suffered an ancle sprain.Those who did single leg balance drills with their eyes closed three times a week for eight weeks had a35 percent lower risk of another sprain .in the following year.Training with your closed is the key. "I compare it to low-speed interval traning versus high speed interval traning, says study author Evert verhagen, phd. "Both increase fitness, but interval training will achieve faster results as your system is challenged more."
proprioception is not a "thing" that you learn once and forget; its a sense that has to be maintained daily, even by top atheletes
An open question, however, is weather these balance exercises truly train pro-prioception. These are really neuromuscular traning activities that necessarily utilise proprioceptive information to improve performance,not proprioception per se.To ordinary people, its distinction without a difference.Activities that improve balance (such a single- leg drills) train the brain to develop new grey and white matter. over six weeks, scans showed that balance training created transient and permanent brain adaptations.
In other words, proprioception is not a "thing" that you learn once and forget; it`s a sense that has to be cultivated and then maintained daily, even by top athletes. so, start by beginning today.



