- May 27, 2019
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An idiot at our gym was shadow boxing with his eyes closed. The head trainer told him to stop doing it. A few nights later he did it again and rolled his ankle. Anyone else seen stupid stuff like that in their gym?
What about skipping with your eyes closed? Not a good one for beginners I wouldn't have thought?The idea isn’t that stupid, as long as it’s not a beginner doing it. Shutting your eyes puts the onus on your proprioceptors to do all the work, the lack of visual input helps you feel your body better. That has implications for balance and should actually help prevent injuries.
People have rolled their ankles doing lots of things, so the activity in itself wasn’t the problem. If he didn’t have a safe environment then that was the problem. Funnily enough, closing his eyes while doing exercise is likely what a physio will prescribe for rehab.He isn't a beginner and it was stupid enough to get him injured and miss his next couple of sessions.
That’s not a good one for anyone, that’s a pure stretch shortening cycle activity. If you close your eyes during that then you don’t know the purpose/aim of closing of your eyes.What about skipping with your eyes closed? Not a good one for beginners I wouldn't have thought?
People have rolled their ankles doing lots of things, so the activity in itself wasn’t the problem. If he didn’t have a safe environment then that was the problem. Funnily enough, closing his eyes while doing exercise is likely what a physio will prescribe for rehab.
Yeah, my point exactly. He doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s taking something and applying it in an irrelevant context. The faster and more rhythmic a movement the less relevant it is (slow twitch/postural muscles/proprioception and how that is mapped in the cerebellum). A fast reflexive movement is a lower order neuromuscular function (more peripheral, bottom up), not a higher-order (central, top-down) function.
Okay. I don’t understand what relevance that has to anything but okay.Study of the blind has shown that the brain is actually versatile. The blind are able to use their other senses to form a mental picture of what is around them. Their unaffected senses take up as best they can the responsibilities of their affected one.
Yes, we are adaptable, same thing happens with a stroke. I still fail to see what point you’re trying to make.Blind people are living proof of the versatility of the brain. For a start they are able to isolate the different sounds they hear better. They even taste their food in a different way to the rest of us because not being about to see causes the brain to allow the other senses to take over.
You can easily prove this by closing your eyes when you eat. It automatically enhances your sense of taste and smell.
Would you like to explain what the point is you think he is making?Good point about blind people.
Okay, you clearly don’t understand. You can only improve something relative to something else. You can’t just keep randomly covering things and expecting each one to keep rising higher and higher until you become a super taster, super smeller etc. etc. You also adapt continuously when you’re not covering your senses, and that is proportionally far more time than having them covered up.Your brain doesn't require permanent necessity to adapt. Temporary necessity, by covering your eyes, automatically makes your brain adapt. Example enhanced sense of taste and smell.
Your a fucking weirdo, who writes all this shit in their "coffee break" you need a girlfriendYeah, my point exactly. He doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s taking something and applying it in an irrelevant context. The faster and more rhythmic a movement the less relevant it is (slow twitch/postural muscles/proprioception and how that is mapped in the cerebellum). A fast reflexive movement is a lower order neuromuscular function (more peripheral, bottom up), not a higher-order (central, top-down) function.
Skipping is a stretch shortening activity at small joint angles, with low force demands. You have minimal postural control/precision needs.The eyes aren’t contributing much in the first place. What happens when you’re injured is that the integration between your eyes, vestibular system and your peripheral proprioception can become incongruent. Your eyes may become dominant in postural control during injury (swelling etc. alters proprioceptive input from muscle spindles), or your eyes may become dominant when you spend a lot of time moving under muscular fatigue (similar mechanisms to injury). So closing your eyes during those states (in training and rehab) can re-establish congruence (more precise integration and perception centrally).
Autistic children have movement difficulties because of an over reliance on proprioception compares to vision.
It is context and task specific, this guys rationale is ‘cover one sense and improve another’. He doesn’t understand what he’s doing.
Perhaps start with a fish.Your a fucking weirdo, who writes all this shit in their "coffee break" you need a girlfriend