S1-EP 13: What is Proprioception w/ Coach Drew Wiens

The Audie Inspiring Athlete Podcast

Welcome to Episode 13, This week we will be talking about Proprioception. You wake up in the middle of the night with the nagging sensation to get a drink of water or go to the bathroom. As you lay in bed contemplating if the disturbance is worth the effort. You ultimately decide to follow the advice you give your own kids. So you will yourself out of the comfort and warmth of your bed and your feet meet the cold wooden surface of the floor sooner than you expect. When you groggily open eyes open, you are greeted with a pitch black bedroom, so much so you can’t see your own hand in front of your face. What do you do? Turn on the light and risk waking your mate or venture blindly through the pitch black with your arms extended in front of you like a zombie? Wearily shuffling towards the bathroom door avioding dog toys and whatever else? What if I told you that proprioception comes into play in this situation and in your every day, especially in the gym. Our guests this week, Lifetime Fitness Lenexa’s, Coach’s Drew Wiens, Drew will fill us in on breakdown what proprioception is, how it differs from Kinesthesia, how you can train to improve and do some myth busting. Coach Drew's Contact Info: Julia Email:[e-mail] Instagram: @woo_diens Podcast Contact: Email: [e-mail] Instagram: @theaudieinspiringathlete Facebook: @theaudieinspiringathletepodcast Twitter: @AudinspiringAth Phone: [phone] Additional Show Notes: All right that is a wrap on Ep 13! My takeaway this week, I never realized how a small decision, likes deciding to keep the lights off, in the scenario in the beginning and blindly making your way to the bathroom was employing an automatic function like putting one foot in front of the other. I think it is pretty cool how you can train your body’s receptors like other aspects to improve and how it can translate into the training in the gym…like when doing an Olympic lift like the snatch. The body’s awareness of the position and movement of the body sounds so simple and is an easy way to describe what it is. I like some of the practice ideas Drew gave us to try out like in Yoga. In fact, I tried it this last Saturday while in Roots Yoga, one of the practices I am working in one of the two active rest days. I have to say, it is hard to do, I tried it for about half of the class. It is amazing how you become hyperaware if you think about what muscles you, instead of what I need to get from the store flowing class, how much more I got out of it. I challenge our listeners to try it and see what happens. If you want to reach our coaches can be contacted via IG or Facebook and thru their email address Anyhow make sure you tune in next week to Episode 14: We will be diving deeper into Periodization with Coach Nick Drake… Something Drake is pretty passionate about. Make sure you give it a listen, that will drop on July 11th --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theaudieinspiringath/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theaudieinspiringath/support