There’s More To Brain Plasticity Than You Think

Added: 2026-05-29

[00:00:00]I'm going to give you three words to remember about your brain. We just finished up our No More Mindless Mobility course. We spent a ton of time talking about neuroplasticity, metaplasticity, and hyperplasticity. The research world has exploded over the last 20 or 25 years once we learned that the human brain can change. We think we would have known that, but we now know that there are a ton of mechanisms involved, and most people have heard the term neuroplasticity, which means that my brain is malleable. It's a little plastic. I can bend it. I can shape it consciously by what I choose to do.

[00:00:26]Metaplasticity, however, is overarching version of plasticity, which is the plasticity of plasticity. It basically means how good are you at being plastic?

[00:00:34]And the way that you drive metaplasticity is by building reserves of movement, reserves of fitness, reserves of cognitive skills. In other words, the better you are at learning right now and expanding your brain, the more metaplastic it is so that if something happens and the plasticity mechanisms are still functional. And then finally, there's hyperplasticity.

[00:00:52]Hyperplasticity is could be good or bad, but it is a brief state where the brain is like, "Teach me something." It will ask for activation or inhibition, and it will change things very rapidly. Our job as movement coaches is to induce hyperplastic states whenever we're training our clients, and we covered over 20 ways to do that in that course.

[00:01:11]All right, so think about hyperplasticity. Think about what you've heard from me. Start doing it prior to training. Prime the brain to be hyperplastic to get better results.