Hi;
I have checked your training log. For me you are quite advanced. I have a question if you may.
My mourning routine is Super Joints exercises, Aleks Salkin’s 9 min challenge (light Marching, deadbugs, crawling, carry), BW SLDL and push ups again very light and stretches.
Do you think OS resets provide more than the moves them selves? I feel pretty good about my routine but OS resets are a mistery to me. How come an advanced person as you are still getting benefit out of them? Is it just because you move your self and which is beneficial and my routine would suffice or OS resets provide sth that I am missing. Beyond the explanation of linking left and right brain which any quadruple movement would do.
If some one asks me this question I would say, try yourself
but I wonder your answer.
You took away the one thing I was going to say - Try it yourself haha.
I wouldn't say you are "missing" anything per se. I have never done Salkin's 9 min challenge but tbh the moves look great. Super Joints are fantastic. I did that for a long time.
Ok, so I'll answer this in 2 ways. One as a Physiotherapist, which my job and one as a lay person.
Physiotherapist:
Neural desensitisation is something that I use a lot with patients. Desensitization is
the technique or method used to reduce hypersensitivity. Without getting to techy - It's essentially using a calm state to move the body through motor patterns that were previously painful, and exploring new ranges without increasing the input of sympathetic state.
Why is this important? Well, if the goal of the morning routine is too "Make you feel good," and move through generalised motor patterns that help "reset" your nervous system for the day and perhaps that day's training, the OS Reset does this very well.
So, no you are not missing anything by not doing it. I do the OS reset because rocking, the portion with hip flexion with toes dorsi flexed is the most fundamental movement that essentially teaches your brain how to squat, deadlift, farmers carry, even do pull ups. And if after doing a heavy day of training, I can repeat certain motor patterns that basically allow my body to to go through the same movement patterns in a non-sympathetic state, I find I go train again.
Lay person:
Dan John says "99% of the people's heavy days are not heavy enough and light days are not light enough".
Most 'morning routines/stretching routines I have done require too much from you. I don't what you guys are like but the last think I want to do at 5am in the morning with possibly a crying baby is do front split training and brace my core etc.
OS Reset is brilliant because it's easy and it moves all my joints through all ranges without me having to spike my nervous system. I don't need to prepare for it. I don't need to talk myself into it.
And the second, most importantly, it makes me feel really good after it. Subjectively. I know, terrible measure, but subjectively I feel great.
So, if Super Joints, makes you feel good and you can stay chilled out through out it, then stick with it man. It's great.