FOOTY SECRETS #4 - BE ACTIVATED

This is quite hard to explain quickly but here goes...

Be Activated is a treatment developed by South African physio Douglas Heel of which I caught wind of back in 2014.

Here’s the quickest way I can explain how it works.

• Under stress your body starts to go into survival mode the further away you get from your “baseline” point so the harder and you train, the furtherer away you get from your fully relaxed state.
• When the body goes into survival mode it then wants to become more efficient so then it starts to down regulate other bodily functions perceived as not really required by the nervous system in an attempt to leave more resources for what really matters – survival. For example as your breathing rate increases it shifts the muscles used from the diaphragm to the often more easily recruited chest and shoulder muscles. It can also decrease range of motion to limit power output and thus energy expenditure.
• This is a perfect storm for injury if you fail to recognise what’s really happening and you continue to push the envelope.
• If this stress is not addressed then in the long term your mechanics can change from a change in your movement and injury can be the end result.
• The Be Activated protocol aims to press reset on your body, attempting to take it back to your baseline fully relaxed baseline state to enable you to regulate your breathing better and to get range of motion back and a greater freedom in your movement.

Yeah it’s pretty hard to explain to be honest but the last thing you need to know is autonomic nervous system which has 2 branches – sympathetic and parasympathetic.

A sympathetic response is what you want in a case of a fight (adrenaline, instant energy, heightened senses etc) and a parasympathetic response is what you want a case of flight (eat, rest digest etc).

With the constant-ness of society these days most people are in a constant state of sympathetic dominance and unable to get anywhere near parasympathetic state so with all that stress build up, you are unable to fully rest and recover before your next stress build up and it simply compounds over time.

The breathing aspect of Be Activated can have almost anyone enter a parasympathetic state and if you haven’t been in it for some time, the feeling can be quite dramatic initially as well as in the short term post treatment.

I haven’t ran the studies but the secret to starving off illness and pain is to be in a parasympathetic state as much as you can and when you do go all sympathetic (which you need to be able to do as well) then you must have a system in place to get back to parasympathetic to recover from the stress event.

When you have no ailments in the form of sickness or injury/pain then the nervous system recognises this and releases the brakes on your performance, enabling you to perform at the top rungs of your potential.

Here’s a quick video of zone 1 which is all you need to start the Be Activated system...

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