Delivering cues that enable and progress an individual’s motor learning process is a priority skill-set for any Exercise Professional that is rivaled in importance only by the continuous monitoring of an individual’s tolerances.
Individuals vary dramatically in their “innate” motor learning abilities. This is further alerted by a variety of influences associated with aging, deconditioning, etc. The goals of this combination lecture and practical class include:
- Explore the idea that motor learning ability can “transfer” and therein reduce the time required for future skill acquisition.
- Discuss the role of individual muscles’ “horsepower” in neuromuscular orchestration and compensation.
- Discuss the potential influence of “motor symmetry” in neuromuscular orchestration.
- Examine the research indicating that proprioception is unlikely to be improved by “balance training” as claimed by the functional exercise community.
- Explore in a practical setting creative cuing that can progress an individual who is “motor challenged” through a variety of activities from balance to gait, free weight exercise to machines.
- Examine the details of both investigating and progressing motor “ownership”.