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This is the third post in a series on balance. There is a lot of information to cover with this, so if I missed something, it may be covered in a later post. Otherwise, if you think it would be better-suited for today’s post or if I didn’t discuss something thoroughly enough, drop a comment below!
So I don't want to get too deep into this topic because it is covered pretty extensively in the RTS™ courses so I will just say if you want to really explore this further, take RTS™.
To build off of last week's post where I discussed COM and BOS, I would like to briefly discuss orchestration.
To my understanding, orchestration is a subconscious response of the brain to an imposed demand where the brain chooses which muscles to use to perform a task based on the problem that needs to be solved and which tissues are best-suited to perform that task at that given moment. From what I can gather, it appears to be a process of all available options of tension-generating tissues being presented and the brain choosing not to use specific tissues as opposed to the brain starting with an empty plate and deciding which muscles to bring on to do the task.
To my understanding, orchestration is a subconscious response of the brain to an imposed demand where the brain chooses which muscles to use to perform a task based on the problem that needs to be solved and which tissues are best-suited to perform that task at that given moment. From what I can gather, it appears to be a process of all available options of tension-generating tissues being presented and the brain choosing not to use specific tissues as opposed to the brain starting with an empty plate and deciding which muscles to bring on to do the task.
There is an extensive neurophysiological discussion that can go along with this point, one that is much too great to have at this moment in time on this forum, but if you are interested in finding out more about this, check out Jacques Taylor's Force and the Nervous System 1 course.
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So this orchestration thing, it is happening constantly. Every movement you make or every time you try to not move, which tissues do the job is determined through this process of orchestration. This might go without saying but I feel the need to say it anyways just for clarification purposes, if you are in a scenario where there isn't a demand placed upon you, such as when you are lying down or your entire body is completely supported by another structure, I don't believe this process has to happen in order for you to remain lying down or completely supported. Reason being, as I stated above, orchestration appears to be a response to a demand, so if there isn't the demand, there isn't the response. I may be incorrect about this, though. Feel free to direct me otherwise if I am.
That's all I want to say about that for now. Next week I will tie today's post with last week's post together and then hopefully be able to present a clearer, stronger argument for what I said in my original post a few weeks back.
Just to reiterate, there is plenty more that could be said on orchestration, but I think for the bigger point I am trying to make in this series of posts, this information will do.
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