Your brain on Team Bootcamp Lace em up! Here we go another session at camp. 0:00:00 Anticipating a challenge, your brain may have already signaled to your nervous system that it’s time to start conserving resources your heart beats faster, and some of your blood is diverted from your stomach and digestive tract to your limbs, pumping your muscles full of the oxygen and nutrients they’ll need to get the job done. (This is part of your system’s fight-or-flight response, but more on that in a minute.) The diversion of blood away from your gut can cause a sensation of butterflies in your stomach or tingling in your arms or legs. 0:05:00 Your brain is receiving input from your body that it’s getting a workout, which it interprets as a type of stress, 0:15:00 In response to continued physical exertion, your noodle experiences a flood of neurotransmitters whose type and amount depend on your level of training, research shows. If you’re not used to Team Bootcamp, elevated levels of cortsol are full control telling you to give it a rest, shows research from France. But if you’re in shape, neurotransmitters related to your brain’s reward centers (including endorphins) are blocking those GABA hormones, the same French research shows. This blockage allows the release of chemicals like dopamine, which give you a sense of pleasure and dull your sensitivity to pain, the study indicates. Your brain may also be enjoying an influx of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, which increases alertness. 0:30:00 You may also be experiencing muscle cramping. Although a lot of runners believe this is caused by dehydration, it may be an issue of your brain directing secondary muscles to fire more forcefully, research suggests. As your primary running muscles weaken (and your form breaks down), your brain tells surrounding muscles to chip in. But those muscles aren’t accustomed to working so hard, so they cramp 0:45:00 By this time, your body is exhausted in the point of breaking. You are out of breath and anticipation of finishing up a session. Thats when the leaders pick up what left source of energy left in you and you say, O, Sh!T! Here we go! It just turned on to beast mode! Water is lurking in your mind and surely a needed rest! 0:55:00 You are experiencing how a 5 minute workout can be a cool down thinking that; when it actually less than 5 minute of pain can occur. 1:00:00 Whatever kind of shape you’re in, your elevated heart rate and blood pressure will continue to pump oxygen to your brain and body even after you’ve stopped Team Bootcamp, which leaves you feeling sharp and energized, unless you worked out to the point that all your feel-good brain chemicals are depleted, dopamine levels will remain elevated for a time, leaving you with a sense of pleasure. Hence sometimes even as exhausting the workouts are. You are still full of energy. That is Team Bootcamp! Leaving the trails of sweat on the grass and on a bit of pep talk to soon end on 3! Thats what we do! Now, you know what your brain is doing!
Posted on: Thu, 08 May 2014 23:06:32 +0000
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