The Brain Of An Athlete

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Neuron in Action


What is the brain? How does the athlete’s brain develop and achieve with precision the complex connections and interactions needed to perform? How does
the brain adapt itself to such demands? From the cell to the performance,
what have researchers discovered? How does belief, self-talk act as performance enhancement in the intrecate brain chemistry? As a young athlete, I daily live this complex workout of my brain with my body. This is why I want to share what I have learned and discovered about it.
The brain and the nervous system are the most important and complex parts of the human body. We cannot live without them. Their job is to regulate the internal bodily functions and coordinate the responses to the outside world. The brain makes us think. It is also a little journal that keeps memories and makes us experience emotions like fear, laughter and so on.
The nervous system contains nerve cells, or neurons (about 100 billion neurons), that coordinate the action that a person makes. The nervous system also does involuntary functions such as regulation of breathing and heart rate. All cells pass information form one part of the human body to another.
The brain has two hemispheres, the left and the right. For most of us, our
ego resides in the left hemisphere of the brain, which controls the right side of the body and the right hand. The side of the brain uses a sequential way of thinking. It controls reading, writing, and arithmetic forms of intellect. It thinks in yes/no,
on/off like digital computer. The left hemisphere tends to divide everything into two categories, black and white, good and evil, but nothing between. The right hemisphere is oriented to spatial, artistic kinds of intelligence. The intricate coordination of many areas of the brain plays a key role in the balance and muscle coordination.
Harmony in movement comes from the “lesser” brain for its cortex ...