Your nervous system is your body’s command centre with neurons (or nerve cells) fundamentally controlling your body’s systems and processes via nerve impulses or spikes. When a neuron spikes it releases a neurotransmitter, resulting in communication with hundreds of other neurons.
Different kinds of neurons send different signals, such as ‘motor neurons’ that tell your muscle fibres to contract and move.
A nervous system that is healthy will play a critical role in your body’s ability to build lean muscle tissue.
For muscle tissue to be stimulated and undergo growth, the fibres that make up the muscles must contract under a load/weight. During a weight training session strong signals originating in the brain must travel down throughout your nervous system and pass over onto the muscle fibres causing them to contract on demand – resulting you in lifting the weight, the dumbbell, the barbell.
A strong, healthy nervous system allows for strong uninterrupted signals to travel from the brain to the muscle, generating forceful muscle fibre contractions that involve a large percentage of muscle fibres being stimulated with growth.
Over time the nervous system itself can lose nerve cells while other nerve cells can decrease in size (atrophy). Consequently, nerve cells may begin to pass messages more slowly than in the past, including contraction messages to your muscle fibers.
This is one of the reasons we get weaker as we age and begin to lose muscle mass, because the signal strength decreases resulting in not as many muscle fibres contracting. Due to less muscle fibres being engaged, less external weight can be lifted. Overtime muscle fibres shrink in size due to not being involved in the muscle contractions.
Supporting the health and function of your nervous system is a big player for maintaining your transformation results for decades to come. Improving the health of your nervous system includes physical, nutritional and environmental factors and these are the areas we ensure are covered when issuing prescriptions.
Making use of training types that increase blood flow and force your nervous system to be used consistently through routine stimulation, will help promote on-going functionality, health, and effectiveness.
Daily macro and micro-nutrient support is factored into the nutritional approach we design for all our clients. This is to ensure support for your nervous system, keeping it in good health and able to readily transmit ‘messages’ within the body to effectively maintain function as well as assist in maintaining the nerves’ protective myelin sheath.
Stressors that are common to middle-aged men will take their toll and wear on many of the body’s systems, including the nervous system. Employing our stress/cortisol management approach will help to lessen these external effects that are unavoidably damaging to the nervous system.
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