Yeah.

Yeah. That's awesome. I mean, I think the good thing is that I feel better than ever.

So, no matter what movement you're making, you can create a yield by creating a compressive strategy as long as you have the yielding capability. If you have a learned behavior creating a compressive strategy on the front and backside of the body at the same time, you get squeezed between them. One of the goals when restoring relative motion is to produce these compressive strategies while also creating the shape that allows the yield to occur. This is why superimposing breathing on top of things is helpful because the air follows the path of least resistance and allows shape changes to occur. You mentioned ground contact has a lot to do with yielding because that's how we create the potential energy we use to move through space. We take the ground contact, absorb the energy into the tissues, which is the expanded representation of connective tissue—the yield. The yield represents potential energy, like pulling back a rubber band, expanding a balloon, or pushing down on a trampoline. When you push down on the trampoline, it expands and throws you back up in the other direction—that's what we're trying to produce with connective tissues. You can produce this within yourself, but in cases where someone in rehab has had pain-related issues or an athlete has restricted movement, they may have such a strong behavior that they can't produce the gradient between the compressed and expanded representations. That's where manual therapies, ground contacts, and leading resistances come into play because we can use resistance to create compression in one space and expansion in another. The goal is to create the gradient between the two because movement requires a gradient. If we take away your entire gradient, you can't move at all.

That's basically how I phrase it to her. I was like, you tell me how physically and emotionally taxing this is to [her].

Yes, they'll imply like a bigger curve is going to be reflection, right?

Yeah.

So if I bring my arm this way, if I want to create an ER representation of the scapula, I'm going to drive it from my hand all the way into the scapula because then the scapula is going to follow. If I'm away from here, I'm going to turn it this way because I'm going to get the relative motion of the scapula to turn in the opposite direction. You're using a left foot forward split squat offset load right. You're moving into the cut. So you're descending into the split squat. Right. Yes. So you're going to encourage, you're going to encourage the accumulation of internal rotation.

So you would give them a rolling on the side to shape the IR of the? Maybe.

Oh, um, I'm not sure if I've seen that, but I mean, do you know the scars? Yeah. So you'd have to lengthen that the same way.

Not in that case. You'll find it in regards to a knee. Yeah, you'll find stuff in like, and I don't remember what the ratios are now, they usually give you like a ratio it's like one to 1.25 or something like that for me, anybody know what those stats are anymore I haven't looked at them in decades. But they'll talk about that for the knee. I don't know that you have the same relationship for the hip. Keep in mind, Matt, that they're looking at these things in straight planes. And so you're going to hear pelvic orientation described as a force couple, which is inaccurate to be kind. But you'll see it described like that because they're looking at it in a traditional sagittal plane kind of a representation, which is where some of this hamstring stuff comes from as well. But again, you don't have a great measure. Now, there is literature that they'll use x-rays in some positional stuff to give you an idea of what the pelvic inclination angle is. So that's the relationship of the sacrum relative to the spine. There is a pelvic tilt measurement that will also be used. And then they will have like established norms under those circumstances, but it's not helpful clinically because I can't x-ray everybody in every position that they would be in and determine whether they fall within some average range.

Off topic, completely off topic. As you work with more and more people and over more time, you gather more and more information, and the program probably evolves more. How do you go about organizing? Because I'm a big fan of pen and paper and not good with technology at all. Apart from me trying to be a more well-organized person, is there something like a model I could use to categorize my information and add on to previous information? You know what I'm trying to describe?

And then you brought her to early to middle. You brought it early. Kind of makes sense.

So like that lateral wedding march kind of sled drag.

We'll go over that, see if there's a bias towards that.

Relatively.

All right, understood.

Yeah.

Definitely a visual.

So you're talking about like a tibia that's behind the foot?

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Yeah.

So I would think like stagger the feet or I do that. I do that all the time or have them fully like sit down on it and like yield into it.

Cool.

Okay, so now it's a connective tissue behavior, not muscle behavior. It's not muscle behavior. Okay, so you're concentric yielding. Concentric is the muscle behavior, yield is the connective tissue behavior associated with it. But in the old videos, you said concentric is an orientation, right? The concentric means shorter than the middle range, if there is a middle range. And the eccentric is longer than the middle range. Correct. So that is the orientation of the muscle.

What can I do to answer?

I mean, well, sort of like the one that's closer, like on your chest, right? And then if you go on to that side, like that would. I'm with you, but it's like, but why is what, why does this matter? I mean, because like, at least the way I pictured it is that like, if it matters because just the helical angle of the why it's got to come like turn on a week and then the narrows can just sort of spin.

Well, I didn't say stop there, but you had me there because that's actually one of the all-time great strategies that is underappreciated. If you do it on the correct leg at the correct time. Okay, that's the question. Did they teach you how to pull on somebody's leg in school? You cut out for a second. I missed the great answer. I'm going to restate the question. They taught you how to pull on somebody's leg?

Yes.

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You're welcome. Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, a very busy Tuesday coming up. Quick housekeeping item: applications for the intensive went out last night to the mentorship list. If you are on that list, please check your email and, if you're interested in attending the intensive, please follow your application and return it in a timely manner, but please be thoughtful in your responses. Digging into today's Q&A with Dante. This was a follow-up question on the last Coffee and Coaches conference call in regards to the difference between connective tissue behavior and muscle orientation. So again, these are one of these foundational questions that still has a little bit of confusion behind it because of the way that some of the information has been applied and reported in the research. The distinguishing characteristics between connective tissue behavior and muscle orientation have not been very clearly delineated, which is why you'll see static stretching research that is attempting to increase range of motion and failing miserably. The changes are very small and are not maintained for a very good reason because that type of an activity is designed to emphasize connective tissue behavior, which is not designed to change range of motion. So thank you, Dante, for asking a great question. We break this down; it takes about nine minutes for us to get through it, but there's a lot of good stuff here. So again, thank you, Dante. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday. I will see you tomorrow, Dante.