Deadlift Tips!

Z Health I Phase
Z Health I Phase went great and more updates soon, but I need to kick out some revisions on my PhD writtens pronto, so more updates soon.
Congrats to all the new I Phase people--Fawn Friday, Dr. Jim Ryan, Joe Pavel, Brad "Top Notch", Aaron S, and Marty. Excellent work!! It was a great review for myself again too and I got to teach a bit there also which was a blast. Aaron S from ND crashed on my couch, so excellent late night geeky chats too. See my older I Phase updates from last year HERE and
HERE--case studies

Deadlift
Gotta love the deadlift! I would love it even more if I could take about about 3 inches from my femurs, but such is life--ha! Here is a great run down of deadlift technique from Rippetoe. Great stuff!

Deadlift Analysis

Rock on!
Mike N

Amazing Olympic Pictures Part 1 and Z Health I Phase Review

Notice how they always turn their head or eyes to either spot where they will land or towards the ball. Notice the balance of tension and relaxation (open palm/hand). Amazing!

I am just finishing up Z Health I Phase (yes once again) and it has been great! Excellent reminders and more practice for me on the I Phase drills with some feedback which is always helpful.

I Phase works to integrate eye muscle movements and also vestibular (inner ear balance) into your practice. Remember that the body primarily gets information your joints (proprioception), eyes (visual and proprioception from eye muscle movements) and vestibular (inner ear-balance); so it makes sense for optimal athletic performance that you will need some work on each one of these systems AND a way to know that they are working correctly.

All of them feed into the brain via the nervous system and some times they can become "rewired." For an example, see the link HERE so I Phase provides some cool tools to retrain the nervous system and gets you on the fast track to amazing movement!

Mike N

Bolt and the 200 M at the Olympics!

Be sure to watch the Mens 200m tomorrow and see if Bolt can smoke another world record!

Blog updates may be less than normal this week since I am off to Z Health I Phase training (yes, again) right here in Minnesota this Thurs-Sunday. I am sure I will pick up some new things and it will be great to see everyone there once again.

Rock on
Mike N

Mirror Neurons

I find the study of mirror neurons facincating! What are they? Below is a great link to a short NOVA program you can watch or save some of the audio files to your mp3 player for later.

In short, watching an activity lights up the same area of the brain as ACTUAL MOVEMENT!

Thanks to Dr. Cobb for pointing this out at the (level II) I Phase training. Click below for links to the I Phase series.
Z Health Level II Update part 1
Z Health Level II Update part 2
Z Health Level II Update part 3
Z Health I Phase In Practice Update

Here is the Nova link below
Mirror Neurons on Nova