EP 544: Part 2- Wrapping Our Brain Around the Central Governor Theory - Part 2

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🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The central governor theory is based around the premise that the brain will override your physical ability to run and "shut the body down" before you're able to do serious or permanent damage to yourself.

Dr. Joe Uhan, founder of Uhan Performance in Eugene (Physical Therapy, Coaching, Running Analysis) and is studying manual therapy fellow-in-training at Johnson & Johnson Physical Therapy in Steamboat Springs, CO.

Topics we cover in part 2:

The central governor has a purpose and we have to listen to it.
Learned pain patterns
You become more sensitive to common pain points. Your governor becomes hyper sensitive, and more threatened.
Can you "synthetically mask" the central governor?
Does the governor actually know whats going on?
Can your central governor fail you? Can that work to your advantage?
Can you train your central governor with Psychology?
PMA goes a long way.
What's happening to the governor when we have peaks and valleys in our run?
Maybe it's a committee of governors...
What is the something that all the top runners have in common that amazes you?

We referenced the article Joe wrote in irunfar

Transcript

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0:00.0	And I think that's one of the most important lessons for overcoming injury, but also for
0:09.7	peak performance is to know, okay, well, I can't ignore my brain, but I can't take literally
0:17.1	everything that it's saying.
0:18.9	If I can just kind of dance with it and navigate this thing and kind of make it happy and just
0:25.3	do the best, I can keep going and get better, get over that injury and improve my performance
0:31.7	and do cool things.
0:38.6	Welcome to the trailhead of trail runner nation where we go on virtual runs with experts and
0:43.3	learn from them.
0:44.3	Thanks to make us better runners and better humans.
0:47.1	In this episode, we're going to continue our discussion with Dr. Joe Yuhan about the
0:51.5	central governor.
0:52.5	This is part two.
0:53.7	This is the master class.
0:55.3	You may be a little over your head if you didn't listen to part one.
0:58.9	So go back to last week and listen to part one.
1:00.8	If you didn't already listen to it, this is what we're going to talk about, Freeman,
1:04.8	the pain patterns and how pain is related to the central governor.
1:08.9	Is it possible to outsmart this central governor or can we train it?
1:13.9	Can we make it a good friend of ours?
1:16.7	Stay tuned.
1:17.7	It's going to blow your mind.
1:19.1	Get on your shoes and let's get out there and learn something.
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