Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right we are back after a very long weekend. I had a great weekend; the beginning of the weekend was the birthday bash and extended all the way through the weekend. There was like one big continuous party for about three or four days. I had a great time. Hope everybody else did too. Quick housekeeping item: the applications for the Intensive 18 will be open this week. Be looking for that in your email. If you're not on the email list, please go to billhartmanpt.com. Go to the end of any blog, put your email in there, and you will be first notified when applications are open. Digging into today's Q&A, this is with Jordan, Jordan's PT student. He had a question in regard to fake throws. When we're talking about fake throws, we're definitely concerned with issues of connective tissue behavior and gut behavior, as we are with any implement type of activity. So we're talking golf clubs, tennis rackets, throwing a baseball, swinging a bat, throwing a football. Anytime we have an implement, we have gut behaviors that we have to attend to. The difference between a fake throw and a release throw, however, have a lot to do with connective tissue behavior, and so we unpack that. So there's a lot of information in this very short video, also a little bit of a demo in there for you as well, so you can actually see some of the behaviors that we discuss. So thank you, Jordan. The question is going to help a lot of people. If you'd like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to Ask Bill Hartman at gmail.com. Please put 15-minute consultation in the subject line so I don't delete it. Please include your question in the email as well. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday, and I will see you tomorrow.

My question is more in regards to fake chops and lateral lunges and connective tissue. When I think about connective tissues and I'm doing a really quick movement, I think of stiffness. But you talked about utilizing that motion and utilizing that stiffness for the guts to go into that space. But when I think of the Achilles, when I do a quick lunge, it gets stiff, but I'm not getting that same connective tissue behavior I'm thinking of when I'm utilizing the guts to create expansion or stretch. What is the difference? I don't understand how you're getting the guts to go into that space when you're creating stiffness with a fake chop.

Can you just- Are you doing a release? Are you doing, are you doing a fake? A fake. Okay. Anytime, okay. The implement. Okay, is the guts. Do you understand that?

A fake. Anytime, okay. The implement. Okay, is the guts. Do you understand that? Yeah, so wherever that implement goes, the guts are gonna follow. So there's a slight delay because it's water, right? So if I go up like this, my body turns, my guts have a little bit of a delay and then they follow. As I go into the chopping action, my body goes, there's a slight delay and then there's the wave of the guts that follows. You understand that? Okay, if I don't release the ball, I extend the duration of the slow down.

Anytime, okay. The implement. Okay, is the guts. Do you understand that? Okay, so wherever that implement goes, the guts are gonna follow. So there's a slight delay because it's water, right? So if I go up like this, my body turns, my guts have a little bit of a delay and then they follow. As I go into the chopping action, my body goes, there's a slight delay and then there's the wave of the guts that follows. You understand that? Okay, if I don't release the ball, I extend the duration of the slow down.

Yeah.

Okay, so wherever that implement goes, the guts are going to follow. There's a slight delay because it's water, right? So if I go up like this, my body turns, my guts have a little bit of a delay and then they follow. As I go into the chopping action, my body goes, there's a slight delay and then there's the wave of the guts that follows. You understand that? If I don't release the ball, I extend the duration of the slow down.

Oh. You see it? Yeah, OK. That's what I was confused about. OK.

Oh, so there's the yield.

You see it? Yeah, OK. That's what I was confused about. OK.

Yeah, OK. So the difference relates to conservation of momentum. This is the physical principle. If I don't release, I alter the momentum. So when you throw a ball, you project the ball in a direction, and the ball pushes back against you. But because you're bigger, the ball keeps going in that direction because the amount of velocity acquired from the throw must be maintained for conservation of momentum. Momentum is always conserved. So if I throw a medicine ball, the recent medicine ball goes in that direction really fast is because I'm moving in the opposite direction very little, but I am moving in that direction. So it will stop me. So if I do a medicine ball throw into a wall, as I release the ball, I get pushed back to a certain degree. That creates an overcoming connective tissue behavior because it's pushing back against me and I'm resisting. If I fake it, I am prolonging the deceleration of myself, which means that I will elongate the connective tissues to dampen and slow down. Do you see the difference?

Yeah.

So like if you were doing a diagonal medicine ball chop, and you had a left Achilles problem that was really sensitive. And I wanted to recapture the yielding action on that Achilles, I would chop down in that direction, and I would dampen that to teach those tissues to elongate. So to teach them to accept force. That would be a great reason to do the fake throw. Because if I slam the ball into the ground, that's me getting pushed back harder from the ground, which means that I would have an overcoming action of that Achilles, which is like me bouncing across the ground, which might be too sensitive.

Yep, absolutely.

So this is how you sequence things in the clinic. Right. Again, your early representations are taking energy from the ground. So it's coming distal to proximal. So fake throw is more distal to proximal. A slam is more proximal to distal. You see it?

Yeah. That was awesome. Thank you for the clarification. Appreciate it.

Yeah.

That was awesome. Thank you for the clarification. Appreciate it.

Good morning. Happy Thursday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect.

Morning guys. What is the difference between a hip shift and a hip hike? The difference is happening to one guy who shifts during a squat and that's his normal thing. As he gradually loads more weight, he starts to hike on the left side. So he shifts to the left and he hikes to the left.

He shifts to the left first.

Yes. And then the more volume, then he hikes and he doesn't shift.

More volume, you mean more load? Gotcha. What you're seeing is a progressive increase in the amount of IR strategy.

Yeah, more load.

Gotcha. What you're seeing is a progressive increase in the amount of internal rotation strategy. He's got to push harder. Okay. He doesn't have. So as you increase the load, okay. The amount of extra rotation that he has available is slowly disappearing. So he's got to shift more and more to the left. And then he's got to anteriorly orient more to create the downforce to push the weight up. So you're just seeing the increase in internal rotation strategy.

Okay.

He's got to push harder. Okay. He doesn't have [enough internal rotation]. As you increase the load, the amount of extra rotation that he has available is slowly disappearing. So he's got to shift more and more to the left, and then he's got to anteriorly orient more to create the downforce to push the weight up. So you're just seeing the increase in internal rotation strategy.

OK. On which side is he?

The side that you see the so-called hike is where the internal rotation is becoming magnified.

So he has more IR on that left side coming up?