Before you hit the ground, the concentric orientation in the musculature that's going to be absorbing the jump. Actually, it's the connective tissue that absorbs the jump. But the connective tissue had to be tuned before you hit the ground in the anticipatory motor output.

Yeah, it would actually be posteriorly.

Yes. Cameron and I are different. The way you stated it was excellent. You said that at different rates because that's exactly what's going to happen. It's all a matter of how much. If Cameron was six inches shorter, he would be down farther and not as high. His strategy would be a little different in terms of how far he has gone and how hard he has to work to maintain his position over his base of support. This goes back to the concept that everybody has their own idiosyncratic ranges of motion. We use averages for comparison, but everybody has their own normal. Your measures will tell you where he is. You just have to look at the relationships. It's not about whether he has 47 or 49 degrees of hip ER. It has to do with the relationship of how much to how much elsewhere. That's what will tell us where he is in space, how far he's gone, and what our first intervention should be in terms of how we're going to move him.

You are you asking about the exercises or well, what would need to happen.

Create the owner of stuff.

Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Today's Wednesday. That means that tomorrow is Thursday. That means that tomorrow 6am coffee and coaches conference call is back after taking a week off for a little bit of vacation. So kind of pumped up about this one already. A little bit of pregame. Feel a little bit of pregame. So I'm looking forward to tomorrow morning. So grab yourself a cup of coffee. Please join us. Great Q&A. Great people. Great coaches. Digging into today's Q&A. This is kind of a case study that Alec brought up with a wide ISA individual. So very useful for those of you that are still a little unclear as to the tendencies of your wide ISA individuals as to trainable spaces. One of the things we have to start to recognize is that people come to us with compensatory strategies, they have superficial compression, so this was a big element of Alex questioning because he had something that was very, very compressed anterior to posterior so the superficial musculature squeezes you front to back. What that does is it moves the available trainable space away from midline. We have trainable spaces that are away from midline, we have compensatory spaces that are in front of us at this point and so we have to be very wise in our choices of activities to avoid compensatory strategies that can lead to more compression or discomfort or potential injury. And so we talk Alec through a series of activities and clarify some of the spaces in which this person can actually move and train safely. So very useful for a lot of people. Thank you Alec. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to AskBillHartmanEdgeEmail.com. Put 15-minute consultation in the subject line so you don't delete it. We will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Wednesday. I will see you tomorrow morning, 6 a.m. Coffee and Coaches Conference call.

I have in the past.

Okay. Why would that happen?

How do those people deep squat that should never be able to deep squat? How do those people that touch their toes can touch their toes? They create an orientation or a bony representation of ER, approximately. And that creates the space for them to move into.

Hang on. Let me.

Yes, sir.

Yeah, it does.

So I have a question about inguinal hernias. Since we were talking about connective tissue questions, I have a client who is a massage therapy patient. Fortunately, he's not getting surgery because of COVID—no elective surgeries are happening right now. It's not severe enough; it doesn't show on an MRI. The only diagnostic finding was that the doctor pushed in and it felt soft. He has hernias on both sides, more severe on the right. We were discussing pressure and how it needs to go somewhere—hernias occur when pressure pushes through tissue that's not strong enough to contain it. He's a cyclist, narrow rather than wide, but not particularly fit or thin. I suggested directing that pressure away from the area, working on shifting him posteriorly and improving pelvic floor elasticity. Do you have any thoughts on that or other directions I could explore?

When you get pushed forward it's going to be all right, it's going to be less about a narrow and a wide and it's going to be more about the configuration because of the downward and upward bias. So if you take somebody that has a pelvis with a larger circumference than the thorax, they have a predominant downward velocity, right? And so you're going to see more of what would be referred to as valgus. Someone that would be in a more barrel representation where you have a supination of external rotation, they're going to be moving upward more because that requires the external rotation bias. So remember, internal rotation is down, external rotation is up. So if I'm moving up and out, so I'm turning up and out that way, that's going to create more supination of external rotation, which is going to allow me to move further forward. And so then you're going to see the barrel appearance. If I'm internal rotation biased, I got to turn down and in.

It's cool. Wow, that's spirit right there. Man.

So, what you're observing first and foremost is a solution to a problem. You have asked him to do certain things. He has a certain structure, he has certain physiology, and then he is providing you with, this is how I do it. And that is always going to be the case, regardless of who we're talking about. So if we're talking about a major league baseball pitcher, whether we're talking about an eight year old, whether we're talking about 13 year old. All we're doing is observing a solution and then we are making a determination as to what is good and what is not good. Based on what we think is best under the circumstances. So you have already asked a question and you go, I'm seeing this. And then now I'm curious, is this really a good thing? And so what we want to make sure that we're doing, number one, is we never want to hurt anybody, obviously. And so again, so he's doing certain things to produce force, and again, within his capabilities. When we talk about physiology, like the physiological progression of an individual, and then we associate it with the training process. One of the best ways to look at this is where is this kid in that process? And so if you break it up into sections, you could say learning to train is step one. They literally need to learn how to. And then there's the phase where they're just training to train. So now we're starting to try to influence physiology a little bit more. We're trying to take advantage of some of the what would be referred to as a sensitive period. So there's certain periods where certain aspects of physiology are going to accelerate certain processes. So speed is very important early on in that process, whereas maximal strength comes a lot later. And so now we have to look and we have to say, okay, where is this kid in this process? What are we doing?

What's the problem? Well, then again, her spine is probably going to take that.

Okay. Hold your arms straight out in front of you in 90 degrees of traditional flexion, thumbs pointing towards the ceiling. Got him? Ceiling, the sky in your case. All right. Now, from there, I want you to move your arms into 90 degrees of traditional abduction. Awesome. Now bring your arms straight down to your sides. Do not change the rotation. Your palms will now face forward. Did you notice that? Yep. Okay, so I didn't tell you to turn your arms, but as you move through space, there's a round surface in the shoulder joint that you moved, okay? And so we started with a position where the shoulder was more turned inward. And just by moving you through space, I got your shoulder to turn. So as you're moving through space, regardless of where you're going, there's a turn that's taking place literally at the joint level. You see that?

And I'll know that when I have the external rotations normalized.

Right.

I feel like the machine-based approach in that regard has been more successful because we're getting the changes towards the outcomes we're going for without layering on successive fatigue. We really haven't done much leg pressing; it's been more on, because we're training and doing things outside of just loading up the tendon. There's not a lot of other stuff going on, so I'm trying to hedge my bets and find the middle ground where we can still get some load through the tissue that you mentioned.

Yeah. So they won't have like a high level, a high level sprinter won't have what would be average, normal hip rotations.

Mm-hmm.

No.

Yes.

Down. So that's where you get the eccentric anterior.

I could use the exact same exercise with a different loading strategy for a pelvic floor patient that's having difficulty capturing concentric orientation of the pelvic outlet. So again, it's just a matter of looking at this from the perspective of what muscle orientation do I need, what representation of internal to external rotation? Am I looking at and then just choosing the appropriate area of emphasis in the activity? So I can't emphasize enough the versatility of using loaded carries. It's just a matter of understanding the representations of which propulsive phase you're trying to emphasize and then manipulating loads and other parameters to remain coherent with your programming.

So let's say you can balance perfectly on your side. There's middle. Anything behind that, if I take the leg behind that, that is a late representation because I have to push against the base of the sacrum. Anything where I take the leg across in front of the downside leg is the delay until the foot gets across to the ground and I start to roll the pelvis over. Do you see it? You have to look at the position of the sacrum. Don't look at the position of the leg. Pay attention to what's happening at the axial skeleton in regards to what's moving faster than something else. Anytime I have to slow something down, I have to create a delay strategy. If I'm in an ER representation, so that's the leg either behind or in front, okay? So if I'm delaying it on one side, right? If I'm not pushing the base of the sacrum forward, then that's the delay strategy. That's an early representation. If I'm slowing it down, relative, it's a relative rate. If I would be on my side, like perfectly on my side, that is where the sacrum is squared to the front. That is a middle representation. And therefore the delay strategy would be more inferior towards the apex of the sacrum, right? Because the musculature there has to be, I have to reduce the concentric orientation towards eccentric orientation to slow down through the middle range, don't I? because of the representation of the pelvis is now an IR representation. It's just like taking a step forward.

Yep. Yep.

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