Okay. So, what you, here's the best that you can do. Is you want to have all movement options available to you. So if he is static, right, and then becomes uncomfortable, have you ever sat on a hard chair for a long time?

Just because I understand like with all of our table measurements, those are multifactorial as well. But we can at least somewhat tease out, okay, based on this individual, based on their certain presentation, what may more likely be causing the presentation that we see, but just from an energy system standpoint, I at least don't have a model to accurately guide me towards which of all of these different variables that create whatever performance thing I'm measuring, which one is really the one that I need to be chasing. So that's kind of true.

I think it's a mix. I think it has to go a lot with socioeconomic a little bit. We're seeing that within our school district where I think you have a group of kids that are starting to get outside. And I think, like you guys were all saying, there's a huge health benefit, I think, that's coming out of this. But I also think it's also very socioeconomic, where I think on the lower side of things, kids are really having issues adopting because they're taking care of siblings. There's a lot of other environmental factors that are coming into this. So I think we're seeing the good. But then I also think we're seeing some of the rough stuff as well in our school district. So I don't know. I think a lot of kids are thriving. It's kind of interesting. It's kind of like this almost 80, 20 split we've got going, but it's like 25, 30% are fully participating. And then it's like, we're trying to get this other 70, 75% to kind of buy in and get themselves into a routine.

Totally unable to answer. Yes.

Yeah, and I think when I did the reverse crunch and she saw that it was actually more of the workout exercise, the type of things she wanted to get back to and it was tough for her and she was making comments like, this is a workout, this is not supposed to be a workout, it's PT. When able to achieve that, I love it.

We were sitting in your office upstairs above the best gym in Westfield and just knew like, look, I was tired of driving around. I still love the content creation piece and I wanted to keep that, but I also knew like this was not a sustainable lifestyle for me, and I don't think it was for you either. And I just clearly remember us thinking to ourselves like, yeah, maybe we're wrong, but like, I feel like we're pretty good at this and we could be successful working together. Right? And so yeah, I think about a week later we found somebody and started looking around.

So I love that. And I love to see you smile because I know how frustrating this was for you.

That's true. Yeah.

Well, OK, so think about it. What is a flare-up for her? What does it mean?

Yeah.

Right. If that's the case, then I have to lose extra rotation.

Yeah.

Maybe. Depends on who we're talking about. See, this is it. This is the thing. It's like I can't give you the cookbook solution because I don't know who we're talking about. But I can tell you what your end game needs to be is you better be able to push straight down to the ground in IR. And there's a very simple measurement that you can take to determine that.

Yeah, and again, it's like, how old is the scar? How much adaptability do you have? That becomes a little bit of the problem. You have somebody that had that surgery 10 years ago and they've had this restriction for 10 years. Then you've got a whole series of adaptations. Now you're going to be like, okay, let's just say I can't change this. What can I influence in a favorable way? Then you're going to play that game. It's like, okay, I've got to determine what your adaptability is and use everything they possibly can as a substitution for it.

So now you're back with that, that would differ in your model in respect to now as it was that would that would differ.

Are you trying to capture information, categorize it, and store it?

The goal was simply to down regulate some of the motor output that she was cranking up, because she's all internally rotated, which makes sense given that she's a swimmer. You essentially reverse engineered the process. She was in an internally rotated representation, which was good because it's very easy to move somebody from a late representation to an early representation—the difference is just motor output. Then you get the connective tissue behaviors associated with the early representation, transitioning from overcoming connective tissues to yielding.

There you go.

So here's the thing. Just because history is experience and training history. You're going to lose motion when you throw and when you train. If you don't consistently recapture it, then you're starting from a deficit and progressively lose motion over time. He's got to capture the ER positions to throw. This is why Tommy John surgery results in the first place—the exposure to prolonged external rotation keeps the medial elbow expanded for longer than we would prefer, and then the ligament suffers. All the musculature that would expand the medial elbow, like the medial triceps for instance, is concentrically oriented under this circumstance and creates a twist across the elbow that keeps the medial elbow expanded. That was probably there prior to the surgery and is probably still just because that's who he is. Okay.

Which side of middle are you on? Late. Okay. How much time do you have? In this situation, a lot. Do you think?

If you're making them start at the top and they're all tensed up and they have to get to the box, they want to please you so they want to get to the target. You 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, 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.

Okay. So are you lifting up or are you pushing into the ground?

Stop to share, so I get big on the screen.

Correct. That would be the start. The start I'm thinking of.

I've got a couple of questions in respect to that javelin throw that I posted on. So, the first one was just in respect to her presentation. Initially, looking at it straight off the cuff.

Are you wearing regular shoes?

Okay. So don't confuse the yield with the muscle activity. That would be something you don't want to do. No, but it's like, when you're playing with staggers, what you're actually doing is you're playing with their available space. You're creating slight turns that puts them out there in a lateral representation on one side and an earlier representation on the other. So you're progressively coaxing them, if you will, into those available spaces. There's nothing wrong with that. Because as they're descending in the squat, they are accessing more of an early representation. That's what has to happen when you descend into a squat, right? Without compensation, without compensation. So that, when people toe out, as they say, or their hips ER, they're trying to access a space so they can access an early ER. It's just way out from midline to start because that's where they can capture the internal rotation. It's just not a very big space. That's all.

Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. A very busy Tuesday. It's intensive week, so there's a lot of stuff to do. By the way, we will probably announce Intensive 20 really soon after this weekend. So I gotta get through Intensive 19. We're going to narrow down some dates for us, and then we'll be ready to rock and roll with that. So if you're not on the mentorship list, please go to billhartmanpt.com. Go to any of the blog posts and at the end of the blog post you can enter your email so you're on the list to be notified first when we do announce Intensive 20. Digging in today's Q&A. This is with Alex. Alex is mobilizing a painful knee. One of the things we want to recognize is that no matter what intervention we're using, we're trying to promote a shape change. So if we're doing a manual therapy or we're using like a ground-based movement of some sort to promote a shape change, we can emphasize a focal representation or we can go after a distributed representation. And that's kind of what we're talking about when we're talking about the setup of what he's doing with the knee mobilizations. So in some cases, we want to constrain elements of the system to create, to magnify the focal representation that we're trying to influence. And in other cases, we're trying to promote a physical shape so we get a more distributed representation. Again, same rule applies whether we're doing exercise-related interventions, whether we're doing manual therapies or any other type of influence when we're trying to enhance movement under some circumstances. Sometimes we need a local shape change. Sometimes we need something that's more distributed. Always keep that in mind. So thank you, Alex, for this question. Gonna help a lot of people. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday and I will see you tomorrow.

That's the orientation of the muscle, correct.

Do you see it though? Do you see how it's made, if you will?