Health and fitness has become a hard do-over as many fight to stay in shape despite the lock-down restrictions and most importantly, the lack of fresh air and daily exercises.
Many believe that working out at home or isolated from people in parks just does not cut it out for them in that they do not feel gains even when performing weight lifting, Fitness experts would have to suggest otherwise as movement and fitness are developed not just by equipment but actual movement even if in confined spaces.
Doctors have shed more light on the issue stating that it’s not muscles that weight-lifters focus on when doing their exercises but rather their reticulospinal tract (RST) which acts as the highway for the nervous system where the RST is the main neural highway for maintaining and controlling bodily posture.
Experts in the famous method acting tool known as the “Alexander Method” have preached consistently that the study and discipline of maintaining a correct posture increases the quality of life people have as their body does not hinder the blood flow, airflow and even the correct production of hormones or brain chemicals needed to push yourself with decent energy for the daily activities.
Common gym goers and dedicated weightlifters complain about not seeing any results in the weeks they lift but a new research feature in the Jneurosci revealed how the nervous system works out most during this period.
The Reticulospinal tract is responsible for the background growth of a person’s ability to move and control the body’s organs, muscles and bone with aligning proper posture not to mention the fact that it’s the RST that grows during the stagnating moments in weightlifting from home.
An experiment to test this discovery was done by two scientists training two monkeys to consistently pull on a lever that would gradually grow heavier day by day.
The results were gathered that the two monkey that continuously pulled on the lever day after day, slowly gained a growth in their RST while maintaining the same muscle density even as the load carried on which drove home a point that proper form and posture can help optimize even the simplest workout while the researchers sensed that the growth of the RST adapted with the strength needed to pull the lever down and concluded that this must be what is responsible for what is dubbed in the health and fitness industry as “strength”.
Strength training is by default, a way to increase the power of the RST which involves less isolated workouts and more of those with compound natures
