Episode #17 Does Body Symmetry Predict Your Health, Emotional, And Performance Potential?
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In today’s podcast I explore the effects of body symmetry on athletic performance, health, and emotion.
Are you stuck with what you were born with?
What stressors can drive assymetrical body development
How you can change your body symmetry and thereby your athletic efficiency and performance.
Structural Integration drives symmetry and functional symmetry in asymmetrical structures
Functionally symmetrical exercise drives symmetrical body form
Form begets function…..Function begets form
Scientific American Article: Symmetrical Knees Predict Sprinting Speed:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/symmetrical-knees-predict-sprinting-speed/
Lower body symmetry and running performance in elite jamaican track and field athletes.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25401732
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0113106
FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY: AN EPIGENETIC MEASURE OF STRESS http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.1990.tb01186.x/abstract