Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, with various exercises like chopping for an example.

All right. Do you see it? Yeah. Like the true shoulder flexion test, like I can appreciate that rotation. No, that makes sense. But for some other reason, like, I don't know, other plans, I guess more challenging for me, but.

Always. Always. If you take somebody, if you take somebody that's on an oblique like on an oblique turn, okay? And then pushed forward. If you try to turn them back to the left, all you do is turn everything at the same time because you don't have relative movement available to you. So you try to push. And like I said, I always talk about, you ever move a refrigerator out of a corner?

Yes sir, like 42 inches in circumference, like a big wide waist, big wide hip on an Olympia. Have you seen one? No. Why not? Because it's not pretty. It's not pretty. Right, bodybuilding is a beauty contest, essentially, and there are certain things that are aesthetically pleasing to the eye, right, that are more representative of success in that environment. Power lifters would benefit more from a different structure. Right, so, they look different and therefore they produce pressure in a different manner. I would also argue that when you get up into the higher classes of power lifters, they are equally as muscular as bodybuilders are but their physical structure is less pleasant. They're carrying a ton of muscle. They also might have a ton of body fat that goes with them because there's a benefit to that. So we can go right back to putting more stuff into a muscle creates more pressure. Well, guess what? If I jam more stuff into your belly, into abdominal body fat, I can compress that and it makes me more rigid and it allows me to lift heavier weights. Right? So again, multi-factorial process, but we're also dealing with structure. So under certain circumstances, if I had a thorax and a pelvis that were about the same width, so I'm built kind of like a refrigerator, it would be easier for me to stack weight on that than if I had a funnel that was sitting on top of a tiny little pelvis. Right? Now, if you go back and you watch the old Ronnie Coleman videos, He had the ability to sort of change shape a little bit under some heavier loads, right? So you watch him do the 800 pounds squat. Have you ever seen that?

You're talking about loading the Achilles, right?

So I'll lay them down on the table. I'll lay them on their side. I will bring their knees to 90 degrees. I will pull back the knee, but I don't want to pull back enough to where the nominist starts to roll.

Under this circumstance though it's an externally rotated representation which creates a lot of problems for people because you think about an end game representation that would be anteriorly oriented and then they got this way under and so you have to create a posterior orientation. The mistake that people make is they drive a posterior orientation under this scenario and all they do is emphasize the compressive strategy in the posterior lower aspect of the pelvis. And then they wonder why they don't get their internal rotations back when they're trying to drive internal rotation in like a hook line position or something. Or so people put things between people's knees and they say, okay, squeeze this. And then it's their assumption that because they're quote unquote adducting, which they're not, they're actually externally rotating in that position because of the proximal representation of the femur. So you'll get a representation that looks kind of like this before you do that activity. So you have extra rotation at the hip. You've got internal rotation at the knee. So if they're squeezing something between their legs, they're actually externally rotating at the hip. Thus, you get big extra rotation return, no internal rotation return, which means you've got a spinal compensatory strategy. So that's where you're ER. You're actually ER-ing in the spine, and you're not internally rotating at the hip. So the first step you have to achieve is moving that issue of tuberosity back away from the femur.

Okay. So here's the really cool thing about this. So this is process. All right. First and foremost, herniation will represent a focal yielding action. You understand that?

Bill, this is about cricket fastball up. Okay. So can you visualize the delivery stride?

Well, what is that like doing?

Okay, and that's the same thing. Somebody's stuck in middle of propulsion. You just put them there and you start with smaller movements and over time.

Okay.

So as they push off their rear leg and go onto their front leg, we should see very little space between that. They want to see their back foot pushing and then their front foot accepting right away.

I think so. So with the weight shifted forward anteriorly, is that representative of an anterior pelvic orientation? What's that?

Right? Yeah. Okay.

Cool.

No, no.

you know because I've had like one or two patients like that like during treatment I'm like you're gonna fall asleep on the table here no nervous system I guess okay oh cool um Okay, so move him left and then back.

Exactly. So if a muscle contracts really, really fast, the connective tissues that it's attached to have to create some measure of behavior. So if it's really, really fast, I can make a tendon very, very stiff or I can make a tendon stretch very easily. So if I apply slow tension, right? It's just like silly putty. If I apply slow tension to a connective tissue, it will easily elongate to whatever its capabilities are. If I pull it really, really fast, it resists and it becomes very, very stiff. But it still stretches and it still releases energy. It stores energy based on that behavior. So again, it's like muscles are tuners. They're not great at doing a whole lot of things other than tuning.

I think his force production is not your greatest concern right now. I think that, again, looking at his numbers, he's already great at that. I mean, is it worth trying to chase higher force production for somebody that already throws? He's probably top 1% velocity already in the major league. It's like, OK, what is the advantage there? It's like, did you just steal 20 pitches from his next appearance? Or did you buy him a faster recovery and then getting ready for the next game? Again, that's your experiment. But I would say that when you got this guy in the weight room, I think the strategy is to make sure you don't take away something. Right. And then just make sure that he has everything that he needs. And your data is going to tell you. It's like, what are his numbers? When does he look the best? You know, you compare his bull pens. And then like I said, you just track him over time. And he'll start to show you what he needs to do.

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?

Get it? Okay. Yeah, that makes way more sense, especially with your model with the more like fluid-based physics perspective, like that makes more sense to me.

Okay, cool. So your understanding of the strategy for that early representation and hook lying I think is on point. I think the clarity then is just when you're trying to capture that deeper orientation. Because the deeper orientation requires that the sacrum move and the lumbar spine moves. When you have the earlier representation, where I have ilium forward and still a sacral counter-nutation, that's that late representation where I'm pushing the base of the sacrum forward. Okay? That's not the same, that's not the same as capturing that deep orientation, okay? One's late, up at the top, at the squat and early, down at the bottom.

And so what I feel like for the most part of the effort to make this just happen would be pressure from your right side pushing you back. I hope so. I don't know how else you're going to do it. Yeah, I guess you have to create that compression on the front to get that expansion on the backside.

Okay. One minute and three seconds.

For us as humans, the higher the force production that we have to produce, the greater the compressive strategy that we're going to use, and the reduction in relative motion is going to be observed. So that's why we have to play with these resistances a little bit. It's like, some people come in and they go, 'just feels like I'm going through the motions,' and I go, 'good, because that's what I'm gonna do.' Everybody thinks that everything has to be more force, more force, more force. When the reality is, it's like, what are we trying to accomplish? If I need movement, I don't want maximal compressive strategy. I need to optimize it based on the outcome that I'm intending.

Yeah.

Good, good qualifier. Normal circumstances, you are correct.