So I want to flip flop it. So she pushes down because where does the wide I say need to go first if she's over to the right?

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.

Yeah.

Yeah, left side into ER.

I don't think that you would under most circumstances. I think what you're gonna, probably what you're gonna do is you're gonna end up making like a comparison, so like a within subject comparison. You will see rear foot shape change associated with center of gravity orientation of the calcaneus as the foot changes its shape. You will see that. I would say that you would do that within the subject, though. Don't I wouldn't try to make the leap of, you know, between between two patients or two clients.

No.

Those are two different measures because the direction that the energy is traveling to create those shapes. Okay. He's going in different directions.

Yeah. Okay.

Do you understand that you most likely, because of the hand orientation, giving you the hints that you had an anterior orientation of the thorax, which was going to kick your elbow into a late representation.

That's because the scap is going superiorly relative to the axon skeleton. Okay. So that's the anterior, that's an anterior posterior compressive strategy.

Yeah. Cool. We should probably throw predictability in there, huh? What do you think?

Okay, and then my original question that I had written is regarding just improving balance in the older population. Because with general school, they start with a wide base of support, narrow it, tandem, put them on an unstable surface, that kind of thing. Is that a similar strategy that you go about, or do you prefer it? I didn't think so. Why do they fall? I guess most of the time they're too far forward, they've lost relative motions.

So is the down in IR orientation?

Mm-hmm.

Then you keep going. Yeah.

They're always superimposed until they become the same thing, but that's a different story.

Right. Yeah.

Uh-huh.

Because I need a strategy at the bottom for me to touch my toes. Okay. If I can't create a delay strategy of any kind. That means I can't create the posterior expansion and I try to bend forward. What would happen if I try to go forward?

All right.

It sounds simple, but now you're working with humans.

Okay. Then just one more thing. So let's say we have somebody in a split squat and I was thinking like if the knee goes outwards in the split squat, that's because that's the space that's available to this person. So he has external rotation space and that's where he's moving. But if the knee goes inwards, does that mean that that's like internal rotation space that's available to him? So he's missing external rotation or again, is it not that simple?

Right. So I think your premise, your thought process, is very useful. It's like, okay, so let's try to make space. How many different ways can you make space? You've got a few options. You have to run the experiment. You have to say, okay, this potentially gives me space. This position potentially gives me space. This manual technique potentially gives me space. And you have to run your experiment. You use your best reasoning, you apply it, and then you re-measure. So that's the mistake that a lot of people don't do: they don't follow through and re-measure to see what their outcome is, so they know if they're on the right track or not. Because we do get acute changes associated with many of the things we do. Some are longer-term strategies, like changing somebody from really stiff connective tissues to really yielding connective tissues can take time if they have the potential for it. I was watching—has anybody seen the Chinese sprinter that broke the 60-meter world record? Did you see how long he had to train to do that? He ran against Usain Bolt in 2012. I don't think he was even in the finish line picture. So he was slow—not slow, just not as fast as the rest of the world. He trained for nine years to break the 9.9-second 100-meter barrier and then ran the world's fastest 60-meter sprint. But he needed nine years of adaptations to change his physiology into a more favorable representation that ultimately made him one of the fastest people in the world. Think about that for a second. I want to say this because I think it's really important that people don't understand: the reason I brought up the training for nine years to create the adaptations to make the world's fastest 60-meter runner. How many hours does somebody need to invest to make the changes you're trying to make? Are they willing to commit eight hours a day? This is an extreme example. Are they willing to commit eight hours a day for six years to undo all of those changes? So you're backed into a corner to a degree as to what someone is willing to do. How long do they need to invest in this? A lot of people don't recognize the severity of adaptations needed for us to undo them, if it's possible. It might be possible, but you know what, 10 minutes of exercise twice a day ain't gonna do it. And we have to accept that.

Okay. Yep. Absolutely. Absolutely it is for sure.

That is correct. Yeah. That's exactly what I would say. But it also tells you what you need to do from a sequencing standpoint. So if I have somebody that's pushed farther forward and they have more external rotation superimposed, I have to reduce that first, then I can worry about the knee. If you go chasing the knee too soon, you might make symptomatic changes; you might get lucky, but the reality is, more often than not, I have to reduce that extra little bit of external rotation that got superimposed first, okay? Then I can go after the knee because I know what the knee orientation is probably going to be because there's only a few options available to me.

So don't. Well, if you don't like it, then why torture yourself? Here's what I say. It is whenever you're going to consume information in any way, shape, or form. Ask a question first—formulated question to keep you focused on the task at hand versus just blindly consuming information. And then you can say, 'Is this information helping me?' And it's okay to have periods where you just kind of go, 'Well, let's just see what random stuff shows up on my YouTube feed or whatever.' It's like, that's fine, but plan that ahead. Like don't use your focused time where you would consider this is important. Right, ask the formulated question, have a reason, and then anything else that doesn't fit into that is what you don't consume. And so what you may find is that if you start asking better questions—and you will, over time, it takes practice—you ask better questions. And then it won't matter what form the source is in. So the reason that you might not like to read the textbooks is because you're not curious enough to use that content, that form, to fulfill it. You're too scattered. You're too generalized. And so anything that seems of interest sort of catches your eye and then takes you on a path that leads you to nowhere. Because next thing you know, you're looking at baby goat videos on YouTube when you were looking for vertical jump information and you ended up at baby goats, right? Okay. So again, just formulate a better question. And then, like I said, then you might recognize the fact that, 'Oh, this book is kind of interesting,' or 'this part of a book is interesting.' So people try to read textbooks like novels—it doesn't work that way. You know, you should go to where the information is that you might need. Like it might be a paper, maybe it is a video, maybe it's a lecture, right? But again, I think if you create the curiosity, the source of the information will be less of a challenge for you. You say, 'I consume information to fulfill a need. Have an intent.'

Okay, so let's figure out a way to get there. How can we get there while we're training?

So that's a turn. There's no straight plane. Like literally you turned, you literally turned everything in sequence to get your hand into a position in space.

So the first step would be to bring that back.

A 42 inch waist.