Then he winds up his pitch and...BAM!...fires off the signal. The all-or-none law states that, once the neuron receives the signal, it has to fire it off. Like a pitcher who winds up and starts delivering the pitch, the neuron can't balk. There's no stopping once the nerve impulse has been activated. But, if your neurons don't get the signal, they don't fire.
Anytime Fitness, Hastings, MN, is the No. 1 franchise on Entrepreneur magazine's 2014 Franchise 500 list. Anytime Fitness co-founders Dave Mortensen (left) and Chuck Runyon celebrate their company's ranking as the No. 1 franchise on Entrepreneur magazine's Franchise 500 list.
Anytime Fitness CEO and co-founder Chuck Runyon (right) was on hand for Tuesday's ribbon-cutting ceremony of the company's 2,500th club in Madrid, Spain, along with Robert Jones (left), the counselor for commercial affairs for the U.S. Embassy in Spain, and Rod Hill, the director of Anytime Fitness Iberia.