Your brain doesn't command your movement. It guesses it.

Hello,

A sprinter's foot is on the ground for a tenth of a second. By the time the information "the foot has landed" travels up to the brain, the ground contact is already over.

So how does he manage to run accurately?

The answer goes against everything we were taught. We imagine a brain sending orders to the muscles in real time, like typing on a keyboard.

That is physically impossible. Feedback from a sensor in the body takes one hundred to two hundred milliseconds to be processed, and many sporting gestures are faster than that.

The neuroscientist Karl Friston formalized it: the brain doesn't correct second by second, it anticipates the body's upcoming state and reduces the gap with what it perceives. It predicts, then it adjusts.

This is exactly what we call, at LabO RNP, the sensorimotor loop: that permanent back-and-forth between what the body perceives, what it predicts, and the gesture it produces.

Movement is decided long before the muscle, in the quality of that prediction. A body that predicts accurately moves with ease. A body that predicts poorly hesitates, stiffens, gets injured.

What this changes in your head: when a gesture won't come out, stop staring at the muscle. The problem almost always lies upstream, in what the body perceives and anticipates. You have been working on the output for years. The key is at the input.

Finding where the prediction breaks down, and switching the missing information back on, is the heart of RNP, Neuro-Postural Reprogramming. We open the door for you with the introduction to RNP, free of charge.

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The gesture is predicted long before it is executed. That is where it is won or lost.

The LabO-RNP team