So, What Exactly is Z Health | Tacoma Group Fitness & Personal Training
Did you know that no system in the body works in isolation? When you get injured all sorts of things happen in order for you to compensate for that injury. If left un-remediated, those compensations can lead to long-term physical changes and possibly chronic pain.
Understanding Z Health
Since 2010, Taiso Fitness has implemented a training protocol called Z Health. Z Health views the body through a neurological lens. Z Health puts you and your nervous system at the center of the training.
Just to simply walk across the room, this requires your eyes, balance, and movement systems all working together to provide information to the brain. As a result, the brain then processes all that information about your body, the environment, and even things like your past experiences and decides what to do next. So you could say, “our brains all work the same … but different.”
Sometimes those past experiences, such as an injury, might lead to changes in the way we move the rest of our lives. Z Health looks for sub-optimal performance and ways to correct it by asking how it relates to the nervous system and how can we improve that.
“Wait, does that mean if I injure body part A, it can effect body part B, and I feel pain in body part C?”
Yep. That is why coaches trained in Z Health pay attention to the whole body, rather than one part at a time. Z Health has proven to produce staggering advances in performance, and […]