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Training should therefore target the engine required to drive the goal performance,
and the structures will develop/adapt themselves to accommodate it. Athletic
Strength is about training athletes from the inside, out.
This means, the fundamental premise of this book is that every external physical
expression – be it a particular performance, or a physical state – is the result of the
manipulation of the body’s internal physical elements. That is, the central nervous
system controls every cell, tissue and organ in the human body. Anything we do
physically originates from a neural command. As we are primarily concerned with
physical movement and physical state when we talk about sports and athletic
pursuits, we are therefore primarily concerned with the way the nervous system
controls the fascial and muscular systems. The nervous system is the most important
factor in physical performance, not the muscular system. While movement can be
classified into several categories, different people can have different physical builds
(indeed the same individual can alter their own physical state however way they
want), and the same muscle can perform in multiple ways, the one thing that is
common to everybody on this planet is the central nervous system. What’s less well
understood is how to harness the enormous potential the central nervous system
actually has on the myo-fascial system.
For example, it has been shown that a group of slow twitch muscle fibres can change
into fast-twitch fibres if the neuro-muscular input consistently demands fast-twitch
characteristics at the muscular level. The fact that all physical expression is
determined by the nervous system (within certain structural and anatomical
constraints) should make it no surprise then that it is possible to manipulate every
individual’s physical state and performance by addressing the relevant neural
demands. This is the basis of training from the ‘inside, out.’
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