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Ever wonder how a muscle may become weak and cause joint pain or discomfort?

One way a muscle or joint position may become inhibited is through the brains incredible feature neuroplasticity, a phenomenon called ‘neural smudging’ may occur. Through the information the brain receives from the body it creates an avatar of what your body looks like, and its name is the Homunculus man. Now because this avatar is created through information gathered from the body while exploring movement, you build your Homunculus man by moving and smudging him out if you stop moving or have pain.

To paint a clearer picture of this neural smudging in a protective sense remember back to a point in time you’ve had an injury like a broken finger that had to be pinned to the partnering finger to heal, or maybe a broken arm that had the elbow plasted for 6-8 months, can even be a time you’ve sprained an ankle and started limping. As the body is healing from something, say a broken finger, and you have your two fingers pinned together, your homunculus man molds two fingers to one, making a four-fingered hand. After you heal and your fingers are free from the pins it takes a few weeks to get used to using the five finger hand like you once did.

This is neuroplasticity's neural smudging feature.
It is True Techniques job to create a safe learning environment for you to expore movement and build your Humonculus man.

If the brains plasticity is the problem, the brains plasticity is also the solution.

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝?

One way a muscle or joint position may become inhibited is through the brains incredible feature neuroplasticity, a phenomenon called ‘neural smudging’ may occur. Through the information the brain receives from the body it creates an avatar of what your body looks like, and its name is the Homunculus man. Now because this avatar is created through information gathered from the body while exploring movement, you build your Homunculus man by moving and smudging him out if you stop moving or have pain.

To paint a clearer picture of this neural smudging in a protective sense remember back to a point in time you’ve had an injury like a broken finger that had to be pinned to the partnering finger to heal, or maybe a broken arm that had the elbow plasted for 6-8 months, can even be a time you’ve sprained an ankle and started limping. As the body is healing from something, say a broken finger, and you have your two fingers pinned together, your homunculus man molds two fingers to one, making a four-fingered hand. After you heal and your fingers are free from the pins it takes a few weeks to get used to using the five finger hand like you once did.

This is neuroplasticity's neural smudging feature.

If the brains plasticity is the problem, the brains plasticity is also the solution.

It's True Techniques biggest priority to create a safe space for training that allows this homunculus man to be built as strong as possible, away from pain.

The Bench Press is notorious for killing shoulders.

If the scapulas aren't set correctly, or the bench is too wide the shoulder joint will be forced into an anterior shear (pushed forward) creating inappropriate stress and a muscle imbalance within the rotator cuff.

To save this from happening supplement your press work with Kettlebell presses.
The weight of the bell on the outside of the arm creates an external rotation force that the Sub-Scap rotator cuff muscle has to resist. This Sub-Scap activation will help pull the rotator cuff back into centration safely and ready for maximal force to be produced.

Want an exercise to begin your P-Bar skills?

The L-Sit to Bent arm stand is a great foundational movement to begin handstand work.
Try these three progressive strength skills to achive your first L-Sit to Bent arm stand!

1. L-Sit hold
Once you can hold 10 sec start swinging into the L-Sit and pulling back.

2. Tuck balance
Once you can balance for about 10 sec try exploring your legs up to straight and than using these leg extensions as reps and sets to strengthen.

3. Assisted L-Sit to stand
Once you have a feeling for how your body swings back and forth try lowering from the bent arm stand to the L-Sit.
Once you can do that it's not far till you can roll back from the L-Sit to the stand.

Enjoy!!

PS. Move & Play class at True T uses drills like this to coach these skills.
If you want to drop by for a try, class is every Wednesday 5:15, 6:30 & 9:30am - 4:30 & 5:30pm.

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