Right?

The glutes, the glute medius. They blame glute medius to be weak. And so what they do is they lay people on their side and they do the traditional Lawrence Kendall manual muscle test. They go, look, a weak glute medius. And then they do some stuff. And then they push on it again. They go, look, it's now strong. When the reality is is what they had to do is achieve a pelvic shape change to get the muscle to actually produce force. So it's not that the muscle itself is weak. It's not that it lacks cross-sectional area. It was out of position to produce force in the position that they tested in. They changed that position. The muscle is now forceful. Yeah, so they blame a muscle and they accidentally do something correct. But what the solution is, is to create the shape change that is necessary to produce force straight into the ground.

Scar.

So there's no magic set of tests. There's no magic studies that I haven't found somewhere on the internet that demonstrate some baseline recommendation for hamstring strength relative to quad strength that is supposed to keep and maintain a level pelvis. Oh, great.

OK. So here's this week's note card.

So you superimposed internal rotation on extra rotation. So where did you bring her from?

There you go. Exactly right. Exactly right. That's if you're doing explosive work, he's doing like, like he wouldn't do step up straight up. He would go up to the side. You see it? Like he's not cross over yet. He can't cross over yet. Right. So he would be doing like step two sled drags, not crossover sled drags, things like that. You see the difference?

So it's understood, but there's going to be a side bias. You're going to have a little more on one side than the other. And if you can tell me that, it can give you an idea where to start.

Okay.

If you're having trouble with muscle orientation and joint position, it's best to start them on the box and have them stand up first. Because if you make them start at the top and they're all tensed up and they've got to get to the box and they want to please you so they want to get to the target, they might be too tense and then they're stuck using an incorrect orientation to get to the box. Whereas you can set them up on the box, okay? Teach them the joint position, stand up first, then you can go top to bottom, back to the top. But I would start them at the bottom and go up.

Or you push back against me.

I'm going to try to explain this. I need you to see this, because I think if you see this, you'll get it.

So then what are you doing to avoid the scenario where someone gets the negative shin angle, but pelvis is translating forward?

Before I start the call, I want to say it's a very important day today.

The goal would be to try to get her into that early foot representation first. Are you in a coffee shop somewhere?

Yeah.

So again, from a timing standpoint, you'll be hard pressed to be later on the right than you would be on the left because that's where the space is closing from that side.

And now it's associated with muscle behavior. It's not the muscle behavior.

Well, okay, what representation do they typically come in with? Are they everybody stuck in early representation where they're okay? So when you're in a late representation, and I have concentric orientation of posterior lower, what do you think's holding the sacrum still so it doesn't move? Then I push the left ilium forward against the sacrum base. Then I twist the sacrum base into an ER representation relative to the IR representation of the apex of sacrum. I'm talking about the same thing again, Alex. Why do I always have to answer the same question for you? That's all I'm asking.

Well, discussion is very simple. No one has failed on one of these calls before. Everybody is successful on these calls. Come on, Cameron. It's like nobody ever misses. Nobody has to deal with these live humans that have their own thoughts and beliefs and issues, right? No, it's, it's always hard. It's always hard. But, but the, the thing that, the thing that you can, that you want to fall back on as a rule. Okay. So, okay. Here you go. Have you done any of the ISA roles? I go like, yeah, I keep calling them mummy roles, but yes, that would be the wrong, that would be the wrong thing to call them. Cause that would be absolutely wrong in every way, in every way. Um, no, so, so, uh, but you've done them, right? Yeah. Okay. And then there's a difference between how I place my hands, depending on which side I'm going to be determined by archetype as well. Right? Okay. Yeah. Why? Why is there a difference?

Stop there?

Okay. You've been on the call the whole time, right? Simple rule. We were just talking with Robbie on the golf swing rule.

And then so then the last piece that I had was the tibia. So I know we talked about the tibia moving back and then at the deepest part. Yes. So hang on. Can we define back?

Thank you. This is very helpful.

Okay. It's going to prevent you from leaning backwards, which would be driving more of the compensatory IR strategy. Why do we do a front foot elevated split squat?

Okay. So you're doing a lot of the right things. Okay. Correct. Okay. Um, did you get the late hip IR to go to zero?

Yes. The IR is coming from the ground up, gradually. So the earlier you are, the more ER representation you have and the less IR that's superimposed, but the IR is starting to come up. So here's the kicker. Think about the springy thing that we just talked about. What do you want? My dog is yelling at me. Hang on a second. Let me recapture my thought process. So the IR is going to start to come up. But it's coming up from the ground first. I capture my medial contacts on my foot, still in the ER representation, but the IR is now allowed to come up. The distal tibia is going to be biased into an ER, but it's going to start to IR. And it's going to do that before the proximal tibia. Can you picture that?

Yeah, so it would be coherent with what you're trying to do with the cross connect, wouldn't it?

You know what I'm talking about? When a shoe looks like it's chopped off at an angle on the back, those are the shoes that hit the ground and throw the wearer forward very quickly. That's a late propulsive shoe, which is very useful under certain circumstances. But if I want to slow someone down, I want the heel to be squared off to the back because they land on that area, which compresses and slows down the motion. That creates yield in the connective tissues, which is what I wanted in the first place. Then I can worry about having an arch. It's not about feeling the arch—they already have one. I want the behavior to be represented.

Yeah. Yeah.