Bones are bending. Bones are changing position. They're warping.

But what's really cool is this trainer has a strong first backgrounds. They know how to queue tension and position a little bit. So just if you further queue that a little bit with these principles underlying like you should be perfect.

Yeah and I think people are shocked by that because then again now it's like in this social media era everybody's like oh look at this 20,000 square foot and I got every imaginable rack and gadget like man that's great but we started with three platforms that had three racks we had one empty platform we had a prowler we had a 24 kilo kettlebell not a rack of kettlebells a 24 kilo and a prowler oh Oh, and by the way, the prowler was gold and we got it off Craigslist for 200 bucks. And we serviced the hell out of that thing for three or four years.

And it will happen again because your identity is no different from what it was before. But the thing that you have on your side now is you are much more rational in regards to what the possibilities are from a negative consequence standpoint. And I think that's really powerful. But that's this conversation. This is you and I. And I'm listening to myself as I say this too because I run into the same problem. It's like, oh, I'm taking a risk here. It's a calculated risk. And so I'm going to limit my exposure because there's certain things that I want to be able to do too. You know, and I try to maintain those the best that I can, but I also try to be a little bit more rational in regards to how much I am applying from a load standpoint or speed standpoint because you just have to. You just have to now because you have a hip there that doesn't adapt and the stuff around the hip that is securing it does adapt. And you can have negative adaptations to the structure that's holding the implant in place. And then that's what causes the changes in the hip over time that result in the requirement of having to have that stuff redone. And that's what you don't want to do. That's right. Because you and I got this stuff young because of our ability to out-train our body's ability to repair itself. And so we don't want to do that again.

The compensations make it difficult to say that Neville is more yielding.

Like I said, how many times do we get punched in the face?

So the abdominal wall expansion precedes, if someone's sitting upright, the abdominal wall expansion precedes bucket handle, and then pump handle should be last.

You are in front of the box.

It would be in an exhaled position.

And so the general approaches will work initially for them. If they've never been exposed to certain things, then you get the adaptations. And again, this creates a lot of confusion. And this is where turf wars and all these discussions say, you don't need to do that. And the other guy says, yes, you do. And then the other guy says, no, you don't. And they go back and forth. And they're both right because they're speaking about different circumstances. You know, where a different level of training age, just look at somebody's training age and you look at what they've been exposed to. It's like, you just can't expose people to everything that you want to do, because they don't have the capacity to tolerate it. Right. And so the way to look at this is, you know, you back up and you get your 10,000 foot view, you look at stuff from a distance and you look at all of the things that I need. And it's like, where can I place this? Where's the best place that I create the least amount of conflict? Anytime that stuff needs to be constructed. So when we're talking about like muscle mass or mitochondrial development, there's this tendency to look at it as a four to six week period where you're going to see a decent amount of adaptation. And then there's about a four to six week period where it's going to decline. Like if you don't train it, and so you can capture those windows. And then that periodic exposure, it like to at least prevents the decline or maintains some measure of it as long as you're exposed to it. And then you can spend more of your time on something else. And that's how you superimpose these capabilities, right? Because you got stuff that's in total conflict. When you're looking at oxidative development, and let's just say that you had a kid that was trying to gain muscle mass for football or something. It's like, well, those are in total conflict, right? They rely on the same resources for the constructive development of machinery, right? But how do you stack that? It's like, well, I emphasize, if there are low qualifications, it doesn't matter. You just do them both, you'll be fine. But later on, it's like, okay, I got to emphasize development of one, and then I got to be really smart about the other one. And I think there might be elements that would be less in conflict. But if you're trying to do like a better term, glycolytic intervals and gaining muscle mass at the same time, that is literally dipping into the bucket way too many times because you're using the exact same resources.

Well, you always use scalenes when you breathe. It's just a matter of degree, right? Because scalenes get branded as accessory muscles, but they are always active to some degree. So the question is: in what position can you make it easier to open the airway and reduce the degree of muscle activity? Would you want to start them upright? Or would you put them more supine?

Yes. So I still have problems with feet, I guess. With what? With feet. Pete. Okay, keep talking. Yes. But now like I actually have like a case that I'm kind of lost in. So I have a lady who's like a narrow ISA and she has left knee pain and according to like MRIs, like she has like a little slide degeneration on the medial tibial plateau or like the medial side of the knee. She has a little like bursitis or some kind of inflammation on the patella tendon on the lateral side and a baker's cyst in the medial side of the back of the knee so it's on point so far it's on point yeah it's like everything sounds okay so far exactly so it's great and then the other day so like we worked on the posterior outlet because that was the first thing that we did with her like activity wise so that kind of got better and then the next time we started, I wanted to do with her, what did we do first? We solely did a basic couch stretch or like, yeah, tried a couch stretch, just getting just getting into like a half-kneeling position, give her so much stretch on that left quads that like after that, like she was useless for the rest of the session, like even just doing like a hinge, her quads were like shaking like crazy. So, and then she has of course a lot of like, she was walking on her tippy toes like for years when she was a kid. Nobody told her not to do that until like eight or nine. And then now she has a very flat foot bunions like spreading of the forefoot just very, very wide. So I'm trying to get like, you know, both sides of the knee, like I'm trying to get hip and the foot also. The hip was really, I was kind of thinking that it because of the femoral rotation, or the twist in the femur, that's why we're getting into this like shaky quad thing, that the quad is not feeling comfortable working in those ranges or working with those angles, but I'm kind of lost on the feet too or like what to do. Like if she can barely sense stuff. So, yeah. Okay.

Okay, at least once in your life you've been to a library. Okay, do you know how they categorize books by number?

Similar pattern of having like an early, middle and late representation.

Okay. Hang on. So here's, here's my question. Here's my question. Does he have the open capabilities?

And I'm talking about that too.

Like you're literally creating the shape that they need at a moment in time because that's where the interference is. They're not securing that position. They're either trying to go around it too fast or they're trying to go through it too slow. It's like, I have to create this position first and then I can start to expand the window where they can actually utilize that representation. I want all of my activities to be dynamic. I want fluidity. It's like, why can't they? I can't do it. I'm not graceful at all. But my ballerina always has like this incredibly graceful way of moving through space. It's like, this is how you decide. It's like, oh, I can go into, I can do a cross-connect step up because they have demonstrated the ability to control the starting position, capture the position that I want, and then move back out of it so they can transition through the sequence or propulsion. If I have something that can't do that, I know where they are. I know where they can't go. And I have to set up that spot where I have to teach them the position first. I have to teach them how to shape change, hold that position, and then I can move them out of it. That's what you're talking about.

I am awesome.

Yeah.

Do you see how it moves? So when you bump into these things and you lose all relative motions, and then the segments start to move together as a single unit, and then they have a certain amount of yielding capability within them, that's what you're seeing. You're seeing the bends. So the outward curve of the spine is ER, the inward curve of the spine. So I have a convex and a concave. convex ER concave IR on the same segment.

It's not a hinge, dude. She's not a hinge.

Yeah.

OK, so you're the one that has to put the little chip underneath your heel because you have a bony IR change that you have to create the adaptation for. I don't know what your friend's foot looks like, so if she's got a foot that looks kind of like yours, where you see the calcaneus is twisting into IR, then you use the strategy you just described, which is that little bit of heel elevation, and that's going to untwist your foot. Now you've got a great foot that can capture the early representation. You understand the difference?

So, think about this for a second. I'll give you another hint. The spinal level is usually about two levels lower than the anterior rib attachment.

Where are they first?

If we use the biceps as the example, that's the shortened representation.

Okay. You need the really big needles for that one. No, you poke them in the ilium and they, like their vertical jump increases by 12 and a half inches. Yeah. It's really sensitive. It's really sensitive. Yeah. So if you can take pressure off of the skeleton, they tend to feel a whole lot better. Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and It is. Perfect. All right. Man, this is a busy week. We're taking some days off here at the end of the week to extend the long holiday weekend here in the US. So many things to get done. So we're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Vic. Vic asked a very good question, actually a very simple question to a certain degree. Basically wanting to look at the representation of a late propulsive elbow. What we have to understand is that every segment of the body is going to go through the propulsive phase. It's going to have a certain type of behavior in a certain sequence. And if we can understand that, then we can do our assessment and determine where these people are in space relative to the foundational archetypes. So the foundational archetypes are representative starting conditions. We measure people at their point B so to speak and then we're going to close the gap between point B and point A to restore full relative motions. And so again it behooves us to kind of understand where each segment is during these phases of propulsion. When we talk about the elbow Those folks that are representing the late propulsive elbow strategy will typically have lateral elbow pain if that is their complaint of choice as it were. Typically then what you're going to do is you're going to move them from a late representation to an early representation, very much like we would if we were talking about a pelvis under those circumstances, because that's going to restore the greatest degree of relative motions. And then you can start to superimpose any performance related activities on top of that. So Vic, thank you so much for the question. We'll be very useful for a lot of people. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday and I will see you tomorrow.

It isn't.

Mm-hmm.

Yes. So, so if I, if I, I are the lumbar spine is the pressure posterior anterior.