Episode 12 & 13: Voluntary Core Engagement is disruptive with Mike Golden

Feel unsupported without consciously engaging your core? Wanting to dive deeper into why you don’t need to always grip and squeeze your core? Mike Golden shares his journey with injuries from contact sports, how his rehabilitation journey shifted to simultaneously addressing higher order brain systems, and how his journey got him to where he is today. Inspite of his journey, Mike explains how the visual and vestibular systems affect posture, movement patterns, athleticism, decisions, and metabolic dysfunction, and how optimal plasticity requires a combination of brain-based drills and muscular work. Using A GPS analogy, Mike discusses core engagement, when conscious core engagement may be appropriate, and how the ultimate goal is unconscious core engagement. By explaining the two types of unconscious core engagement that facilitate movement, Mike presents the function of the core, the power of perturbation in training a reflexive and responsive core, and how shifting the movement goal to change awareness is highly beneficial. Learn more about the intricacies of core engagement.

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