#109: How to train your nervous system

The Dr. Shannon Show

Dr. Shannon Ritchey, PT, DPT

Fitness, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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We train our muscles and our cardiovascular system. We can also train the network that we don't see: our nervous system. In this episode, Shannon focused on the autonomic nervous system. She talks about sympathetic and parasympathetic activation and how each influences your fitness results. She provides tangible tools and takeaways to start training your nervous system more effectively. 0:00: Intro 3:16 Breaking down the different parts of the nervous system 6:27 How your nervous syst...

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can train your nervous system and see better results from your workouts?
0:06.3	Today is gonna get a little bit nerdy, but I'm gonna try to keep it really interesting and engaging with lots of examples.
0:13.2	This is one of my favorite topics and I actually read about 24 pages of notes in research,
0:17.5	so I'm distilling this down, I'm going to divide this into a series because I can't just cover this in one single episode.
0:25.0	Welcome to Fit Body, Happy Joints.
0:27.1	My name is Shannon.
0:28.3	Today's episode will be about exercise
0:30.6	in the autonomic nervous system.
0:32.4	And next week's episode will be about exercise in the somatic
0:35.0	nervous system.
0:36.0	When it comes to seeing the best results from your workouts, you don't want to just train what
0:41.5	you see, like your muscles, but also what you don't see your
0:45.4	nervous system. The network of nerves and cells inside of you that are working
0:50.0	behind the scenes to dictate how your body responds and changes to exercise, how mobile
0:56.2	you feel, how well you recover, how clear you feel mentally and more.
1:01.2	And historically, fitness programs have been one-dimensional.
1:05.2	They make you sweat and they make you work hard and they sell on that.
1:08.6	But they don't necessarily consider the most important part for seeing results,
1:12.2	which is what's happening behind the
1:14.0	scenes. They pay no attention on how to train your brain, how to train the network of nerves that
1:20.1	connect from your brain to your spinal cord out to your muscles and your
1:24.7	hormones. They're just paying attention to how hard did you work, how much did you
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