 With Impulse, removal of friction and weight (gravity) has a dramatic affect on motor learning skills. In this new motion training environment balance and proprioceptive senses are brought to a higher level of involvement in performing exercise. Conscious control of ever changing acceleration and deceleration becomes impossible while learning auto reactive motion control becomes natural.
The training of timing with this new level of control is easily accomplished through the selection of weight (mass) on the sled. More mass means lower levels of motor control while less mass means higher levels of control. Motor units do not operate in isolation but rather in co-synergistic unison. This process of control involves the entire body rather than isolated limbs and joints.
This apparent contradiction to existing principles of exercise can be explained by basic principles of physics. Inertial Exercise is focused on developing higher levels of neuromuscular coordination. When the mass is reduced the acceleration potential is increased. Higher levels of acceleration require greater levels of coordination and faster reacting motor units. Core and joint stability become a natural outcome of training as the body learns to accommodate higher skills. By beginning exercise, in the initial training stages, with a high mass and gradually transitioning to a low mass one can quickly attain extremely high levels of skill and coordination.
Patients recovering from injury and athletes alike are at risk of injury from lack of coordination and control. By training faster co-contracting and reacting motor units you naturally develop a more stable and safe operating platform. Twenty years of experience has clearly shown a transfer of learned motor skills with the Impulse to functional life experiences and athletics
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“...develops functional motor recruitment patterns beneficial to all activities...aids our staff in customizing treatment and follow-up plans to return our patients to the highest possible performance level.”
David H. Andre, MS, LAT
Houston, TX
“Inertial Exercise saved my career”
Bruce Sutter
Cy Young Award Winner
Retired- Atlanta Braves
“...it’s neurological approach is the new direction in performance training”
Dana LeDuc
Strength Coach
St. Louis Rams |
