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Podcast: Love At First Science
Episode: Episode 13: Voluntary Core Engagement is Disruptive with Mike Golden (Part 2)
Description: 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 dives into the mechanisms behind anticipatory and compensatory postural control. He explains how the spinal and neural tracts that communicate information about eye and head movement to the trunk and surrounding muscles. He dives into the importance of unpredictability and perturbations in activating the brain and allowing optimum movement execution and efficiency. Then, he dives into the research surrounding conscious core engagement, timing of postural adjustments, transverse abdominis activation, and the role perturbation pl...