Sport Specific Training Improved By Increasing Synaptic Plasticity

June 4, 2008 - PRLog -- It is widely believed that for an athlete to reach an elite level of performance, he or she must practice for thousands of hours over the course of many years.  If an athlete can accelerate the learning curve and reduce the time needed to develop and perfect the motor skills required for their specific sport, then they would enjoy a tremendous advantage over their competitors.

Natural Athletic Nutrition LLC, a Long Island based company, has introduced a nutritional product that can speed up the learning and development of motor skills acquired during sport specific training.  Vizuo XL Sports Vision Enhancement http://www.vizuoxl.com/ contains over twenty five nutrients that can improve many facets of athletic performance.  One way in which it imparts benefits to athletes is by regulating the permeability of the outer membrane of cellular mitochondria, which in turn can lead to greater synaptic plasticity.  

Many neuroscientists support the idea that synaptic plasticity plays a very important role in the learning process.  Synaptic plasticity is the ability of the space between neurons, or synapse, to change in strength.  This gives neurons the ability to communicate with each other.  Long Term Potentiation (LTP) is the long lasting ability for neurons to communicate with each other, and as far as athletes are concerned, this translates into “muscle memory”.  

Muscle memory is the ability of the brain to signal the muscles to move the body in a specific and coordinated way.  For a baseball player this can mean swinging the bat so the ball is struck exactly on the sweet spot.  For a golfer, this can mean using just the right amount of force to place the ball near the cup.  A tennis player needs to hit the ball in a certain way to execute a perfect drop shot.  No matter what sport you play, there are many skills that need to be performed correctly in order to be successful.

According to company president Will Horan, serious athletes will benefit tremendously from the product.  “Any athlete dedicating his or herself to improving their performance by spending countless hours honing their skills is doing themselves a disservice by not utilizing the latest advancements in nutritional and cognitive research.”  Their website contains a multitude of links to the scientific research studies that support the safety and effectiveness of the ingredients in Vizuo XL Sports Vision Enhancement http://www.vizuoxl.com/Science-of-Vizuo-XL.html

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Natural Athletic Nutrition LLC is a dietary supplement provider that specializes in producing unique nutritional formulas for athletes. Our flagship product is Vizuo XL Sports Vision Enhancement, a unique supplement that addresses the interconnection between the eyes and the brain. It was designed to help athletes improve their reaction speed, agility, coordination and also facilitate the learning and development of sport-specific motor skills during training.