Okay, so if you're just in supine and you're reaching with the right leg across your body and the pelvis hasn't started to move yet.

So, feel free to let me know if I'm totally off base here, but I'm hoping I'm on the right track. It has to do with basically direction of force. So there's three pictures that I've been working with that have—we have a force plate mound and they're very jumpy, meaning they kind of lose connection with the mound. Does that make sense?

Yeah.

I see. Okay. And that plays really heavily like the herniated disc yielding posterior strategy, like you were creating that delay as well. Okay. Yes.

Probably not what I was going for.

Yeah. And the only way to know, I already mentioned this before, like if you give somebody like that who uses compressive strategies for performance benefit, if you give somebody too much range of motion, there's only one, I would imagine the only way to find out if it's too much for that person is to give them a range of motion, retest whatever you're testing and then go there.

A thousand percent. There's only one way that you can transfer energy without moving mass, and that's through wave behavior. So there's a vibration that comes up from the ground and translates through your body into whatever you're making contact with. Whether we're talking about throwing a baseball, throwing a punch, throwing a kick.

Correct. He's already a compressor. So this is going to turn into one of these conversations about, oh, he just needs to get stronger kind of thing?

All right. So I understand gate is just a series of alternating turns of the actual skeleton, correct? And you represent them with phases of propulsion, right? Correct. So just to clarify, so say you have right leg swinging forward. So the sacrum will begin to turn to the left, right?

It does. So I guess my confusion still is like, let's say I'm squatting, I have like a 500 pound barbell on my back and I'm gonna do a back squat. So I still have to produce, well probably more than 500 pounds to actually move the bar. Whether I dissipate the forces through across my whole body versus locking everything down, I still have to produce the same amount of force. So I guess my confusion is, why does decreasing the relative motions and making the force focal help me specifically like limiting the relative motions? Why is that beneficial? Because in my mind, I would have to produce the same amount of force anyway. This is my question.

You have to be careful with this. Because what some folks will do when you're cueing pelvic position as they're descending into the squat is that because they're at the top, that is a late representation in regard to pelvic orientation. So the foot's going to bias us towards the early, but I can still create that posterior lower compressive strategy as they're posteriorly orienting. So if I have something that's anteriorly oriented and you're cueing posterior orientation, you have to be very careful that they're not closing that posterior outlet actively, which pushes them forward into that late representation. Because if they hang onto that at the bottom of the squat, there's no way they're going to be able to sit down. And that might require you to do the hook lying activity first, where I have to be able to cue them out of that posterior lower concentric orientation. The way you'll know you've alleviated that is you'll recapture early range hip flexion, recapture straight leg raise, and pick up some internal rotation at that traditional 90 degrees where we test our ER and IR at 90 degrees of traditional hip flexion. So if you pick up and you won't necessarily get full internal rotation, we're looking for an early representation which will not have full internal rotation, but you will have a measure of it. For instance, if we were looking at 40 degrees of traditional IR being considered the average, you might have 20, and then you know you've got enough to capture that early representation. You follow?

Gotcha.

Yeah, because so the acceleration doesn't change like it does with the band tension.

Higher force.

Yeah.

We'll figure it out. Don't worry, man. Don't worry. Have a great day. So all those people that poo poo machine training really need to rethink their thought process if hypertrophy is the goal. Again, if you don't really care about movement capabilities, by all means you better be doing some machine training. If hypertrophy is the goal, there are advantages there. Don't care how you get the stuff in there. They just respond to a stimulus. Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Man, I am feeling good. I'm still pretty fired up after yesterday's IFAS university call. We had a great call, went about 90 minutes, so it's a little bit longer than we usually go. The questions were so good. These guys are getting so good. They're using the model to an extensive degree, and they're doing it actually quite well. So it's been really, really fun to see that evolution. If you're not part of IFAS university, you are missing out. So we're going to dig in today's Q&A. This is with Ben, and it's all about powerlifting. Ben works a lot of powerlifters, had some great questions. We basically dissected the whole lever pulley concept and why it doesn't really apply to human beings. And then how does this perspective affect how we look at things in powerlifting? So that was really, really fun and industry. But we covered hypertrophy. We talked about arching scapular position in a bench press. White Arnold's chest is still the best chest that's ever been in bodybuilding. So we covered a lot of ground here with powerlifting. Ben was the last caller today, so we actually went long. He was pretty excited about that. I was having a great time. So this is actually a really, really fun call. Please watch it all the way through. I think it's about 26 minutes. But lots of good stuff in there. Thanks to Ben for your participation. If you would like to get on a 15 minute consultation call, go to askbillhartmanedgeemail.com, and put 15 minute consultation in the subject line so I do not delete it. Or if you just have a regular old question, go to the same email address, askbillhartmanedgeemail.com, and leave me a question and we'll try to address that for you. All right, you guys have a great Tuesday, I will see you tomorrow. We are rolling, clock has started, fire away, go. Go, go, go.

Okay. So I also had a string training period for about seven years. So I was going pretty hard in the gym. I grew kind of this like monster on my left side of my back. They're kind of, you grew a monster is how he said it's like a creature over there. It's just the asymmetry in the development.

Gotcha.

OK. Sounds good.

You got it.

Four things.

Yes.

Okay. And that's why using arm positions to get ribcage changes works as well because they have another surface contact point.

I just want to say it was so cool about the configurations, especially with martial arts. And then Michael just mentioned Jordan Burroughs, like with wrestlers, why they're always short, wide and stocky. It just makes so much sense. First is like those long guys who are like, have a certain style. It's just really cool. You can apply it to any sport.

Yes.

Can we just talk about infrastructural angles and stuff?

So now I have these orientations where the pelvis starts to move as a single unit. And this is what we start to look for when we're talking about looking at ER measures as a diagnostic for the orientations. And so if I am anteriorly oriented, let's just say I'm doing this symmetrically, what I'm going to see is I'm going to see a loss of the external rotation measure at the hip. Because I have musculature that's above the level of the trochanter that as I tip this forward, these muscles reorient their direction of pull. They become internal rotators and they start to steal my external rotation. So right away I can just say anterior orientation reduction in external rotation. Now, if the left side, if I have a stronger compressive strategy on this left side, and that left side gets a little bit ahead of this right side, which means that the anterior orientation is going to be more on the left, I'm going to lose external rotation on that left side. If I get tipped on an oblique and what that oblique is, it's this. It's where that left side is going up and it drives me up and over the right side. That means the right side starts to lead. It gets a little bit more anterior orientation on that side and I lose external rotation on the right. So it's actually a loss of external rotation that you're going to use to diagnose this anterior orientation, whether it's a left or a right. And it's going to be typically when it's on the left side, it's going to be a little bit more of a flatter turn. When it's tipped over on the right side, it's going to be a steeper turn. It's going to be up on that oblique axis. Now, having said that, let's think this through for a second. So there are situations where you're going to get a magnified external rotation. So if I was looking at my archetype, so if I had a narrow archetype where I'm biased towards that external rotated position of the pelvis and inhale position of the pelvis, right away, that's going to give me a magnification of my external rotation, but there's another way that this external rotation magnification can occur. So think about the end range and traditional hip flexion as you're measuring. I have to have that lumbar spine turning towards the measurement side, the ipsilateral side, to get that true end range external rotation measure. But if I am anteriorly oriented, so I'm anteriorly oriented like this, so that should take away my external rotation, but when I lay people on the table and I have anterior orientation, I can get this type of a turn where the pelvis is moving as a single segment, but the lumbar spine is still free to move. And so under those circumstances, what I'm gonna start to get is this magnification of the external rotation measure. So if I have a spine that is facing the right and I've got an orientation of the pelvis that is turned strongly to the right and I take somebody into a hip flexion measure and they turn towards that hip flexion as I measure it, I can get a magnification of my external rotation. So when I try to turn someone into external rotation and the pelvis turns towards me, what I'm going to get is this magnification of external rotation. So this is where you're going to get a lot of these measures of 80 degrees, sometimes up to 90 degrees of hip external rotation, which is associated with the turn of the spine, even though the pelvis is anteriorly oriented.

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How about a yes? How about we say yes? Because I think you're describing, everybody's kind of going like this. It's like, okay, that's the maximum shape change that I can produce under these circumstances. And so you go up and you literally meet the force that's trying to crush you. And then you stop dead. Anybody ever do a squat like that, where you just like sitting there and you're pushing and pushing and your spotter's going, come on. And you're going, this is it. You know and then it's like uh, oh and then what happens you release the pressure and you start going the wrong way. So literally you have demonstrated your maximum shape changing force producing capabilities in that lift. That was it. You're done, your toast, you have just represented your ability to overcome gravity.

Doubt it, yeah.