hi guys today I'm gonna run you through something called a neural reset or at least that's what I call it sometimes when I'm in the clinic I'll ask someone to do a particular movement a reach or a twist or a bend and there's something that just looks a little bit off it is hard to put into words sometimes it's that the timing of the movement isn't quite right or the sequencing in that the body doesn't quite move in the right order there'll be like a jump in there moving or sometimes they won't be very balanced with a movement or just uncoordinated with it it could be a mixture of these things that the eye just picks up subtly in their movement it just doesn't look quite right and then a little bell in my head goes out they need this exercise so I've stolen this exercise from a guy called Perry Nicholson he runs a site called stop chasing pain calm that is well worth looking up and it's a series of movements that stimulates every primitive reflex that the body has so a primitive reflex is something that we build when we're growing when we're a baby so when were a baby first of all we gain control over heads and because all we really care about is how to look for milk and then we want to see the world so we start to gain control and be able to lift our head further away from the floor to the point where we can push ourselves up and eventually we use the weight of our head to roll from side to side and get from belly to back and back to belly and then we are able to create enough space where we can get an ease through and we start to crawl them there's a series of events that build a movement map of the world and our body in the world around us the interesting thing though is even as adults we still need to be able to do all of those things and for whatever reason maybe previous injury or just lack of exercise and lack of moving practice some people have gaps in that movement map I've even seen very elite athletes who have got gaps in the moon map that I'm about to show you see sometimes like say when movement doesn't look quite right this is a good exercise to run through that will just reset your nervous system if you fall into that category where moving isn't quite right I'd recommend doing this once a day for a month and just after at the end of the month you'd become a much much better mover in whatever you do with your body whatever sport you play or whatever job you have so let's give it a go say I'm just going to start from a standing position lay all the way down flat onto my back and then sand up all the way to sanding it again that's step one you do it however you want to do it whatever choice will ever move and choice your body makes that's right for you although when you think about is over time try and become more efficient try and make the movement easier once you've laid down onto your back stand all the way up and then go down onto your belly and then all the way back up again again the way I'm doing it isn't the way you'll do it but you choose whatever works for you once you've done the front and the back you then go to the fetal position on your left side and then all the way back up again and then the right side and then all the way back up again so whatever your body chooses to do is right for you just over the months of practicing it every day I'm used to trying to get a little bit more efficient once you've done that you then put one hands down onto the same side sight and you're just lay down so the hand isn't allowed to move so when I'm laying flat on my back I can't straighten that leg again because it's not allowed to move from where where it is so I then just stand up however I want then same again down onto your belly still the hand hasn't moved yet oh all the way back up so you can see there's quite a lot of upper-body strength involved I'm having to push and twist and roll a little bit to get to where I need to be and then you get the idea down onto the left side all the way back up and this is the really tricky one for me where you go down to the same side there's no elegant way to do some of these things you just got to do whatever your body wants to do and so I went show you the other one cuz I can't talk and show you this video at the same time but you would think off and do the other hand and then the really tricky one which is where we're rewiring some of those movement pathways in the brain is to cross the midline with the hand so whereas just now it was the same side that was fixed now I'm going to cross and the same again it just gets even more awkward until we're cool oh yeah all the way down onto your belly all the way down onto the left side and then all the way down onto the right side and obviously you're gonna be doing that with both hands so can't do the maths there's quite a few movements there no hands laying on your back you barely your left side your right side fix the same side all four movements fix the other side cross cross and when I do that as a whole routine it normally takes me moving at the sort of pace you just saw me move at normally takes me about four minutes or so to get through the whole routine and you can probably hear it's quite a cardio thing as well and you you're using your entire body you're really using your head strength head and neck strength you're trying to roll one way your core is having to engage you having to push are you having to squat and hip hinge so it's really using all the basic fundamental human movement patterns and because we're making it deliberately quite awkward and tricky your brain has to figure out how to solve this movement puzzle and I've like I said earlier I've seen some very high level athletes have quite big gaps where they're in one of these positions and they just can't figure it out but quite quickly with some practice they do and then they're filling in that little map gap in the movement map so if you fit into the cache for you where your movement doesn't quite feel right or you're unbalanced in movement or you just want to gain some core strength and some hip strength and get your spine more stable then this is a really cool thing to do I recommend doing it every day for a month and you'd been a completely different place especially if during that month you focus on just making your movement more efficient and cleaner and lighter and at the end of the month you'll be in a better place so if you got any questions let me know
