Laying Wires

Over the past week Elliot is flinging him arms, turning his head and starting to smile. He’s developing motor control. This is exactly what happens when you learn or refine a movement in the gym.

I call it laying wires.

He’s learning how to fire the right nerves to perform certain task with precision. Each movement accumulates more information for his body to learn about force, control and how to deal with gravity.

It’s easy to forget that we were all there once. Unable to perform basic tasks like type on a computer, or a touch screen, aim a fork into your mouth or even walk. All these tasks we perform each and every day are controlled by our nervous system. We’ve created the pathways and laid down the wires to do the tasks well.

In the gym, we want to feed our bodies good movement to develop awareness, skill and precision to perform our best outside of the gym. Just like Elliot, you’ve got to build some pathways. Lay down a foundation and learn to move.

Justin Miner