Synchronizing Brain and Body
to Optimize Movement Ability
Movement Efficiency Training is a method of training progressions that teaches the body how to move efficiently, effectively and dynamically by using a cutting edge neuroscience inspired system of systematically layering movement patterns to optimally synchronize the brain and body in movement.
From Physical Education, to Rehabilitation, to General Fitness and Sports Performance anyone can benefit from moving more efficiently. Deceptively simple in its application, the M.E.T is extremely powerful as a training system. In addition to this, M.E.T does not require you to use expensive training tools. By applying M.E.T in your training program you will learn how to effectively use your own body and implement your current training tools into the three training zones of M.E.T.
REIGNITING THE MEMORY OF MOVEMENT
Everything we do in life originates in the Brain. Whether we are going to work, doing groceries or working out in the gym, every action has to be initiated from our brain. Our ability to remember how to move efficiently is unfortunately reliant on our brain’s capacity for memory. Even though we would all like to be able to move again like when we were kids, or like our favorite athletes, or even like before we were injured, our ability to move well relies on the brain’s capacity to remember how to move and memory is reliant on practice and repetition.
For many of us, our brains have simply forgotten how to activate those neurological pathways that were once used so naturally in our lives. Movement Efficiency Training breaks down these complex and dynamic movement patterns that were once considered by our brains into simple movements to help the brain develop new neurological pathways. Once these pathways have been developed, a series of progressions are then introduced to help the brain and body move with the same efficiency (or perhaps even better) than in the past.
M.E.T AND REHABILITATION
In response to injury the Brain’s primary objective is to protect itself and the body. One of those mechanisms is by using different pathways to compensate for the injured area. Even though this compensation may be effective on the short term, repeated activation of the compensation pathway may result in this compensation pathway becoming the new default movement pathway resulting in a decrease in movement efficiency, which in the long term may cause overuse injuries. In addition to this, even long after an injury has healed the brain may still remember the injury and try to protect itself when movement is required. By applying M.E.T, we can break down the compensatory movement patterns and reprogram the correct neurological pathways to once again optimize efficiency.
M.E.T AND GENERAL FITNESS
One of the most common benefits the average fitness client seeks is to simply be able to perform activities of daily living with confidence and zest. Due to sedentary lifestyles, the majority of our clients do not move enough. This lack of movement may force the brain to forget how to perform even the most basic of movements resulting in a lack of confidence and excessive loss of energy when movement is required. M.E.T helps the brain remember how to move again and enables the body to move without excessive loss of energy. This results in the reignited pleasure of moving. When a person enjoys moving, they will enjoy moving more, which in turn leads to a greater quality of life.
M.E.T AND SPORTS PERFORMANCE
Athletic performance is often measured by an athlete’s ability to move dynamically on the sports field. Movement Efficiency is therefore crucial for any athlete. As performance demands increase in sports, so too do the demands on the brain and body. Poor movement efficiency may lead to a performance level below the athlete’s potential. M.E.T helps the athlete reconstruct the sports movement patterns and eliminate any unnecessary compensation due to prior injuries or incorrect learning of movement patterns.
In addition to this, M.E.T has great injury prevention properties as it synchronizes the body’s reactive ability to respond to rapid changes, such as in sudden deceleration and changing direction, which are all scenarios with high injury potential.
M.E.T AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Movement is an extremely important foundation in a child’s academic and physical development. In today’s sedentary society where movement is no longer a requirement, our children are at a constant risk of insufficient physical and mental stimulation that they typically would receive with an active lifestyle.
This lack of movement stimulation in the formative years of a child's development may greatly inhibit both the child's academic and physical success, simply because movement is a fundamental way children learn. Lack of movement may also inhibit learning how to move correctly and effeciently, which in turn may prevent that child from enjoying the simple pleasures of movement.
M.E.T can help schools implement a method that is designed to help kids build the fundamental strength and coordination they need to fully enjoy the one thing they need most in life. Movement!
WHAT IS MOVEMENT EFFICIENCY TRAINING (M.E.T)?
