Mobility is the ability to recognize situations while being flexible enough physically and mentally to change directions for the right decision-making.
Mobility creates opportunities and is defined by Agility, Movement, Cognitive Flexibility, Power, Coordination.
Applying the 3Y’s concept to functional exercises with the Y Base includes enhancements in cognitive flexibility, pattern recognition, inductive thinking, control, and multiple simultaneous attention, leading to the development of a more responsive and capable individual. It’s great to see how this approach can holistically improve cognitive abilities.
Pattern Recognition and Inductive Thinking
Humans have a special brain ability to find patterns to determine a logical pathway and perceive what will happen next.
The Y-System helps to build our pattern recognition skills, enabling us to anticipate future actions, movements, or events in life situations, and apply simple logic to exercises, tasks, and day-to-day activities.
Cognitive Flexibility and Control
This is a very strong skill that can be easily applied to the 3Y’s mobility part as well. In simple words: the ability to change what, how, and what you are thinking about — in other words, the ability to change your mind.
The more mobility an individual has, the easier transitions are handled. Once that is handled, the individual can shift between tasks more easily and have a higher capability of problem solving.
Multiple Simultaneous Attention
The ability to multitask with success. It is the ability to move attention and effort back and forth between two or more activities while engaged in them at the same time.
Incorporating Y-System drills can improve performance by demanding sustained attention, response inhibition, and speed of information processing, while also requiring planning and strategy. These drills use multiple inputs such as eye-hand coordination, color patterns, and voice stimulation drills to challenge and enhance cognitive abilities.
