Increasing Your Bandwidth
Z-Health is a performance enhancement system. It is designed around the concept that targeting our nervous system is the fastest way to access and improve the way we move. The bones, and the soft tissues like muscles and ligaments that move them, don’t do much until the nervous system sends specific signals. By focusing on the nervous system – through the visual, vestibular and proprioceptive systems – Z-Health aims to identify and eliminate any threat the body is under. When the body perceives threat, it essentially puts on the “brakes”, or limits movement in order to protect the organism. We don’t have a conscious choice for this, the body will always choose survival over performance.
So Z, initially through joint mobility drills, increases the bandwidth in the body between the joints and the brain. This enhances the proprioceptive system (our 3D movement map in the brain) and gives us many more choices on how to move safely given a range of conditions. More choices means greater security – less threat – and greater performance possibilities. Check out Dr. Cobb.
