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Hey what's up guys Dustin Williams here with Dustin Williams Performance and
Precision Fitness and today's topic why playing in the rain might be good for
you and for your workouts. So, I don't know if it is raining where you're at
right now but I can tell you that here it's coming down pretty good. We
got a pretty decent amount of rain coming in expected to continue to keep
raining for a few days. Now here's the thing I want to talk just for a minute
about your brain. I'm gonna tell you that I am NOT the world's best
person at drawing things, but I'm gonna draw a little brain here for you
so that you can kind of understand what's going on. So, it's
beautiful I know, that's your brain and your brain has what's called a
feeding pattern which essentially means the way the energy and the nutrients
is getting to your brain and it goes from bottom to top and from back to
front. So, what that means is that your energy
levels and your nutrients start here and then work their way to the front side of
the brain last. The part of movement lives closer to the front of
the brain all right that's where the movement part of your brain is right
before that part right in here is our sensory part of the brain. Sensory being
like the ability to tell the difference between hot and cold the ability to be
able to like feel when people touch you, to be able to feel when something pricks
you. That's the sensory part of the brain now,
if that part of your brain isn't working as well as it should be that means when
this energy is coming through, when this energy is coming through to
this area, this area is requiring more energy than it should. Leaving less
energy for the movement part. When you go outside and you play in the rain you're
getting a lot of sensory feedback it's a way to be able to train the sensory part
of your brain without really even realizing you're doing it. The rain is
typically cold so you get sensory from that. The rain touches all over your body
and you feel the pressure and the touch everywhere you're getting sensory
from that. So, literally just by getting out and playing in the rain you can
potentially make this sensory part of your brain work better requiring less
energy & potentially making the movement part of your brain work even better than
that. So, go outside play in the rain, enjoy it. If you're in this
area its gonna be here for a few days so get outside play in the rain that's your
job for today guys. Take care!