Got it, got it.

Don't make me do this too long. I'm going to get tired. Oh, please.

Below the scapula.

As I've seen, I don't know how many pictures I've seen with like all their transpose. They do the older transposition.

Remind me, you don't do manual therapy.

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Do you think she's got hip IR? No. That's an orientation, my friend. Okay. So every time you put her into a split stance, what is going to be the orientation that she's going to try to use?

Yeah. Alec, is that you? Can't take your tongue and drink a V-squat? Yeah. OK, so chances are you're going to need some middle ground there, huh?

So you're in a supine arm bar? As you internally rotate, the internal rotation is going to go from your hand to your shoulder.

When we say expansion, we must determine what element we are discussing. When you think about an early propulsive representation in the pelvis, you have a counter-neutrated sacrum on the ERd ilium, which represents an eccentric orientation near the base of the sacrum. You would have a concentrically oriented posterior lower. However, in an early representation, the connective tissue would be biased towards a yielding action, not an overcoming action. When doing a band pull apart, you are duplicating that early representation of the pelvis. The dorsal rostral is reorienting into an eccentric orientation that's an inhaled representation, and the posterior lower is created by the delay from the weight-bearing position, which is a yielding action of the connective tissue. So the posterior lower in the thorax is concentrically oriented but uses the connective tissue's expanded representation, which is a yielding action. Therefore, both are represented, but you're trying to recapture an early representation where the ER space is created and then you're starting to superimpose the internal rotation on top of that. This is the easiest way to reacquire the relative motions under that circumstance. When we talk about expansion, we must clarify if we're referring to a reorientation that changes joint position or to the connective tissue behavior, which is also expansive but does not change joint position. The interpretation is important because people often assume that expansion refers to changing muscle orientation, but we must differentiate between connective tissue behaviors and muscle orientation. Muscle orientation tells us about bony position, and the muscle or connective tissue orientation tells us whether we're storing energy, creating a delay strategy, or producing force, which creates a compressive element.

So I guess those, I'm having a hard time getting those two to play together.

Well, he's not thin. So he has like he has like more belly weight. Okay, cool.

Right. No, I know exactly where you're coming from. But that would be like saying there's no such thing as a bow-legged power lifter when all you got to do is go to the power lifting gym and you would see them all over the place, right?

So what's your question?

Okay. So he's kind of far away from like the end of his ultimate capabilities, right? So at this point, what our primary goal is, is making sure that you are setting him up for say three years from now. So when he's 15, 16, 17, where the loading parameters are really going to be influenced by his physiology. So at this point, what I would say is we want to try to expand his capabilities to whatever it is he is capable of doing. So there are limits. His physical structure is a limitation. whatever it may be at that point in time. So you're seeing some of these IR strategies that they're just force producing strategies. Whether we're looking at a 45 year old accountant that is as an arch that looks like it rests on the ground or a kid that's pushing into the ground, they're doing the same thing, they're pushing into the ground. So he is trying to come up with a force based solution under the circumstance for what you have asked him to do. And so then it's your job. If you want to see the other end of the spectrum, we say, well, what is his capability at the other end? Now you have to select an activity that challenges him to access that. So it would be the difference between like a series of jumps where you know that he's got a time constraint, he's got high force production necessities and such. And then you say, but let's go over and just do a bear crop. totally different other end of the spectrum kind of thing, right? Where he has to physically change the shape of his body to whatever it is within his capabilities. Where I can expose him to the demands of the other end of this so-called spectrum of force production or movement capability, right? And so then that becomes your assessment in regards to, well, what does he have at the other end? How far can he go in this direction? And then if you know this, so let's just say that his physical structure is not one that's going to be the type of person that is going to be demonstrating these high end, you know, mobility capabilities, right? Let's just say that he's gonna be biased towards these competitor strategies to produce force. And again, not a bad thing, athletes do it all the time, okay? But now you know, but now you're gonna say, I might need to do a lot more of this stuff that moves him away from what he is the best at, because if I allow his superpower to take over now, I'm going to give up all of what protects him. Right? And so he's in this train-to-train kind of phase.

I got an hour to kill, right? Okay. So, uh, the same as Misha, a split squat that's with her more to the side.

So you moved in straight lines. You actually made a big triangle that was superimposed on a sphere. That's what caused the turn to occur. Even though you ended in the same place, you had to face a different direction to get there.

And let's just say that my emphasis is on recapturing early propulsion capabilities and I'm doing carries that do not support early propulsion, then I've actually created interference for myself. So if I'm doing too much force or I'm doing a carry that emphasizes middle when I'm trying to capture early, again, I have a conflict in my program. Now, I've talked about suitcase carries in the past. And so we're talking about the influence of a contralateral load here. But the thing I want you to recognize is that we've got the load outside of the base of support when we're talking about a suitcase carry. And so what we're doing is we're sticking that extremity that's carrying the load into middle propulsion, which means that we're going to increase the duration of the internal rotation moment on the opposite lower extremity. So we're increasing the duration of internal rotation. And if we view this from the top, we can actually see the center of gravity shifting over on the opposing side. So this is actually a carry with the right arm that you're looking at. If I take this load and I move it up into the rack position, so this would be the kettlebell being in a rack position, we're gonna emphasize a shift of the center of gravity as well as an expansion to compensate for the distribution of load. So now I'm gonna see the expansion moving posteriorly on the carry side. So what we have now is a delay. So we're moving from an external rotation to an internal rotation, a superimposed internal rotation position because the load is actually inside of the base of support and then anterior. And so again, we're moving from ER to IR. So this is actually an emphasis on early propulsion. So if I'm biasing my programming towards early propulsion, I'm going to emphasize a rack carry. The other alternative that we have for a unilateral carry would be a waiter's carry. So this is going to be an overhead carry. Now, what we've done here as we move the center of gravity upward and it's still inside the base of support. So we're actually starting from a more internal rotation representation moving towards external rotation. So what the waiters carry provides us is an advantage of emphasizing a later propulsive strategy. So we have each phase of propulsion and we have a unilateral carry that provides us an emphasis of shape change and load to help us remain coherent with our programming. So again, if we're writing programs and let's just say we have a left foot jumper with low force production, what we might consider then is the right suitcase carry because we're going to train more of a middle propulsive representation. This allows them to acquire the concentric orientation of the pelvic outlet that they're going to need to produce force during a jump.

So with all that being true, when you were talking about the pelvic diaphragm, you're looking at pressure, and I guess one of the reasons that we can generate more internal pressure with a closed or concentric pelvic diaphragm than we can when it's not.

I am 100%.

They're applying force into the ground. To position the foot and put the force into the ground, I have to have ER to get their IR to produce force. If I don't have both, if I don't have both available, the ground contact is either not going to produce a lot of force and I got too much ER, hamstring strain. Or I get too much IR, right? Heel pain, big toe pain, medial knee pain, hip impingement, low back pain, right? It's a penitentiary IR, right? So here's how much IR you need. Don't tell anybody you need enough. Sorry. Most of the best sprinters that I've measured, and I measured one like totally world-class dude, about 15 degrees of hip IR was really good for him. And that's not a lot under average circumstances, but that's how he did it. So again, it's like, I don't know what to tell you for the exact measure. I think the way you're measuring it and your approach is correct. Right. But how much you need? I wish there was a measure for it.

Gotcha. Right. And while doing these reaching activities, you're also restoring the dynamic ISA and so on. Hope so, hope so.

Lifted. Lift beyond.

That is correct. Yes. So it would be like, if you're just walking, and you step forward with your right foot. And if the medial aspect of your right foot never touches the ground, you can't get your center of gravity back over to the left side as you would step forward with the left foot. So now you got to make some form of compensatory strategy there, which would probably accelerate you through the next step, right?

Yeah.

And another aspect of this case is sometimes the right foot is back on the jerk. They do left foot forward, right foot back. The right foot tends to be a little bit turned out. Not too much, but they just can't find that internal rotation.

But on the ground. That's exactly right. So the rules still apply. So when I'm advancing, I would have an overcoming action of connective tissues. When I am delaying, I have a yielding action of the connective tissues. Pay attention to how you're moving the sacrum. Or not moving the sacrum.

Do you see a transition in the forward and back prior to the reduction of ground contact on the right foot?

So think about the ones, all the measures that are representative of that push forward need to improve, right? So the straight leg raise should improve, the straight leg raise should improve, early hip flexion should improve, IR should improve, ER should improve, okay? Yeah, that's how you know. That's how you know, okay?

How much?