Why does Z-Health focus primarily on the nervous system?

The nervous system manages your entire body. If you need to make changes in pain, range of motion, strength, coordination, speed, agility, or any other physical attribute, the fastest path to getting there is to adjust your nervous system.

The nervous system has three vitally important characteristics:
It is the governing system of the body. In other words, it runs the whole show.
It is the most plastic system of the body. Research has proven that the nervous system can continue to learn and adapt at ANY age, which means you can improve your body at ANY point in your life by focusing on the nervous system.
It is the fastest system of the body. Your nerves communicate throughout the body at lightning-fast speed. What is wonderful about this is if you impact the nervous system correctly, you can make nearly instantaneous changes in the body.

How does Z-Health “target” the nervous system?

All day every day we are communicating with our nervous system. Company co-founder Kathy Mauck likes to say that the nervous system is your guardian that is always on duty.

Z-Health targets the nervous system in many different ways:

Visual Skills Training
Unique Balance Challenges
Precise Mobility Work
Non-Traditional Strength Training Exercises
Sensory Integration Drills
And many, many more

One thing that all of these approaches have in common is a persistent focus on novelty. Modern neuroscience tells us that the brain learns best when there is something new to learn. By varying the stimulus (which can be as dramatic as an entirely new movement or as subtle as a change in lighting) you get the nervous system’s attention. This allows us to use every training session as a “neural re-education experience” – leading to not only better movement, but more interesting and powerful training sessions.

Warmup
Dynamic Athletic Movement

3-4 sets:
10 Kettlebell Swings
10 Ring Push-ups
10 Goblet Squats
10 Sit-ups

Conditioning
4 Rounds
One minute at each station, rest one minute after all five stations, then repeat

Row (calories)
Battling Ropes
Sandbag Clean and Press
Ab Wheel Rollout
10 Yd Forward/backward shuttle