Right. So what you're saying, I didn't think of that. Instead of it being about where he gains internal rotation or whatever, it would be more like, where do I, or what exercise can I give them to strategize more of that? So should I work more unilaterally with him on that one side that hikes up?

No, it's okay. We'll be able to see it from the waist up. So what I want you to do is just get on your right first metatarsal head and big toe. Twist your leg inward to the maximum that you can possibly go. It's going to move your whole body and that's perfectly fine. Awesome. Did you anteriorly orient or did you fall back towards your heel? Awesome. Now try to square your shoulders to the camera with your pelvis twisted in that way. There you go. Awesome. Now without changing your pelvis or your extremity orientation, I want you to posteriorly orient your pelvis. There you go. That's literally what we're talking about here. You've got an extremity orientation and potential adaptations. If you get enough bony torsion, it's going to fix your hand in space, which means you won't have the same capacity. It goes both directions. This is one of the reasons why I talk about the difference between early and late representations. You can get external rotation one way, you can get internal rotation the other way. So a distal adaptation affects proximal and proximal affects distal. It's your job to identify where these people are in space and then restore their capacity to move these representations proximal to distal and distal to proximal.

So what you're seeing, here you go. So this is the situation, right? As I go forward on the right side, so this hand is going to start to go forward.

What kind of belt is attached to the tow strap? It's a car tow strap, a nylon strap about three inches wide that's very soft. It cradles your glutes and comes around.

Okay, thumbs up. Who saw the 13 exercises in sequence? Everybody but Zach. Okay, cool.

Okay.

Okay, hang on. I'm gonna stop you, okay? Yeah. So you say she's got full IR on the right. Okay. The way you describe that. Yeah. When you say full. 40 degrees. Ting, it's probably dirty.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah, of course, I'm going to try to get eccentric on top of being eccentric.

So the anterior outlet has to be able to go up very quickly because I have to push down very quickly so I can unweight one foot and get it out in front of me.

Hold your arm up. Put yourself in dead center middle. So you're a bunch of 90 degree angles right now. Turn your body to the left. Did you just compress the scapula to the thorax? Medial border of the scapula, did it get closer to the spine?

Okay, so I like that. Okay, but to make sure that the air goes there and doesn't go elsewhere, what do I need to compress that was previously expanded?

It's not as often as you would think. Maybe it was just random with my population, but yeah.

What's up with your bones, man? What's up with your hip socket? But whatever. And I heard you on a podcast recently talking about the terminator scene, you know, where it's kind of like he's getting very compressed. So like all the sockets are kind of going out. That's where his motion is. Anyway, what I did with him was very basic stuff, just like lower body rolling going from supine to prone, which went okay, and just some quadruped reaching like very classical—just reaching to get some interior expansion. And with that, we did gain IR on both legs and a little bit on the left shoulder. And that's all we had time for. So I'm like okay, cool. Now I have to write a program for him. Is this a wide ISA? Yeah, yeah, like very wide. And very compressed from what it's looking like. So that's why I wasn't sure with the rolling if I was better off going for something inside-lying with motion from front to back to actually spend more time getting this interior-to-posterior expansion back. So that's where I'm at. I'm trying to okay, cool. We got a little bit of IR back. Eventually, I would like to see the ER numbers drop so I can get like oh, that's nice like your sockets have a total 100 degrees available. That's kind of cool because it is early 50s, I think, and like a few injuries in the past. So it's like okay, cool. Well, that's not damaged. Just mal-oriented or very outward. So I'm just like, how do I work him back in? Like left-side rack carry came to mind just because there seems to be greater motion.

No. Okay. You ever see a guy on the on deck circle, they put the donut on the bat to make the bat heavier. So they swing it. Okay.

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Okay.

I'll finish that off. And obviously, well, you probably know what I'm going to say, but I see that usually with an acceleration representation, there's posterior lower expansion. So I was just a little confused how you could tackle those simultaneously.

Yes.

I want to think it's good. What goes from there to there? In that one. Okay. If I am a narrow ISA. Okay. And then I compressed myself A to P. So I'm going to make my diameter smaller front to back and I'm going to make it wider side to side. Can you see how you create tension on the inguinal ligament? All right. Now, if you're, you said this guy's not fit.

Yeah, I was thinking about the flow between those two.

I was doing some housekeeping in my mind and I realized that I have some points of view that are not necessarily married or coherent. I was thinking about the pathways that narrows and whites have to their end game position and I realized I'm getting caught up in that frame of reference. But when I'm looking at people doing movement assessments, I'm actively just looking for the places where they have more relative expansion on one side or the other, looking for turn space in what I'm seeing in their movement. Then when I go to think about where they're at in terms of that progression, it just freezes my brain and I don't know how to go forward. So there feels like a disconnect in my understanding based on that representation of their pathways of progression and the sequence of compensation and compression, with the way I'm actually making decisions based on what I'm seeing.

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Okay. I'm with you there. I'm not disagreeing with that at all, but let's do something else. Like, I don't want to just do rows and chops all day.

Okay.

Thanks. Have a great day. Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, coming off the long weekend. Got to dig right in to today's Q&A. This actually came out of a discussion that we had yesterday on the IFAS university call. And we started talking about carries and how each variation of a carry can emphasize a different aspect of propulsion if it is executed correctly. So we've got a lot of versatility in our carries. We could use these in a rehab situation where we're reintroducing force production in somebody and we don't want to lose ranges of motion, but we want to teach them how to manage the internal pressures. Carries are a great way to reintroduce that. If we talk about jumping and change of direction activities in an athlete we can use it there as well again because of the the pressure management that's that's required under those circumstances we can increase endurance at high force production so this would be more like an element where we would be more associated with like strongman type activities. Um and then we can emphasize the recapturing of range of motion via the shape change that's associated with the load distribution of the carries. And that's kind of what I want to emphasize today. So, excuse me. So load matters in this situation because the amount of force production is going to be determined by the load's use. So greater force production equals greater compression. And so the question then becomes are we trying to preserve or recapture ranges of motion or are we merely concerned with force production? Simple test: how hard is it for you to breathe as you're executing these activities? The greater the difficulty with breathing, the greater the compression. Therefore, you're moving closer and closer to a middle to max force production. If we start to see compensatory strategies, so you start to see shoulders dropping or elevating in compensation for the load, now you know you're drifting into situations where you're using internal rotation compensatory strategies just to manage the load. So you get to decide whether that is something that you're comfortable with. Finally you can look at monitoring your your key performance indicators. So for instance the chances of losing external rotation is greater at the higher loads or higher force productions and so you have to decide whether whether that's something that that you're willing to compromise on and so again monitoring those. So if I had a baseball pitcher, for instance, that is very reliant on having access to extra rotation. If I use too much force production in a carry, I may be compromising that extra rotation. Again, low distribution influences the shape change. And so that's what we're talking about when we're talking about emphasizing different aspects of propulsion. So if I'm writing a program

Every time.

Right. And you know, the thing is that while we can rely on some of the research as far as the response of the tendon to loading and such, I still think that the mechanical component becomes the primary concern under all circumstances.