I need to get her internal rotation on the right side. I have to put the foot in a position where she can capture the medial foot cues. Chances are, based on her description, if I try to go left foot forward, right foot back stagger, which is where I really want her to go, I may not have enough relative motion to capture that position. I have to start in this position. I'm going to chop towards the right medial heel to start to capture the internal rotation on that side, which is actually moving her back towards the heel. That's where I want her to go. Then I can just slowly change the orientation as she picks up internal rotation, and then I push her way back into that middle representation. Hold on to the delay. I drop her into a right heel, which is where I want her to go in the first place.

Because you're going to slow him down. The left side's going forward faster than the right side. If I put the front foot up, it holds your center of gravity back. It slows you down.

Now I'm running out of things.

Yeah, yeah, got it. You understand here.

I have done that in the past. I used to go to a little elementary school behind my house and drag tires with sandbags in them. Yes. I was poor and couldn't buy a sled. So I made one out of an old tire. Now it's a little better. Yeah.

I think that is just kind of like a winter activity for her. She's much more geared towards the track and soccer side of things. And I think she just doesn't have to keep herself good.

Okay, so you have to appreciate what happens when you lay down on the table as far as orientation is concerned. So you said they were lacking IR on the hip, right? So to get that magnification of internal rotation on the left side, that left side is pretty far forward. It's turned the spine away from that side. So you have to see the same thing up in the thorax, but keep in mind that they're dropping back on the table in the thorax where the pelvis is still turned. So again, you have to understand the representation of: they're turned in the same direction, but then they fell back to the table in the thorax. And again, this has to do with just distribution of load on the surface, and so that accounts for why you see the differences in measures, but you still have to account for the same terms. So the cervical spine and the lumbar spine are both turned in the same direction, but the weight of the body is going to pull it back to the surface. That's where you're going to see those magnifications in the upper versus the lower.

Cool, so that's my question.

I was observing and palpating, and I thought the inside part of the hamstrings was not doing the job that it should.

What would be your expectation as to who would have the strongest representation of shoulder flexion before you even touch them?

Am I more like, aware of what's coming next?

That's why you do a get up and go.

Yes.

Mm hmm.

Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, man. Very busy Tuesday coming up. Let's dig straight into Dave's Q&A. This is with Alex. Alex was on the Coffee Coaches conference call last week and he's working with some clients in sideline. He's doing some manually assisted techniques to influence their ability to roll from sideline. And so for those of you that are new to manual therapy or you're not sure how to guide the thorax under these circumstances, there'll be a representation in this one to show you where to put your hands and how to create these shape changes that we're talking about in sideline. The discussion went even further to talk about some of the shape change that's associated with sideline and then some of the clues that the patients will give you to let you know that they're not capable of changing shape and what shapes that they can assume in these sideline activities or even in sideline rest positions. So very, very useful video for a lot of folks. If you would like to participate in a 15 minute consultation, please go to askbillhartmanedgmail.com, askbillhartmanedgmail.com. Tom put 15 minute consultation in the subject line. So I don't delete it. Please include your question. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday and I will see you tomorrow.

It's going to be a tough one. Based on the way that you're describing this.

Okay, so the reason that that might disturb the output is because now we're not getting as full of an exertion of, yeah, okay. Got it.

Yes. So I need to be able to capture IRs, don't I? Okay. She's not doing that. The dead, she gets like, like this, is it kind of like a broad generalized anterior knee pain on the back leg when she does the split squat?

Yesterday's video was with Alec, not Ivan. Today's video is going to be with Ivan. So let's dig into today's Q&A. Ivan had a question about abdominal muscles during breathing activities. And a lot of times I think this is overdone. In many cases, drawing a lot of attention to certain muscle groups can actually create interference when we're trying to recapture relative motion. So a lot of this has to do with how you're setting up the exercise. And in many cases, if you can execute that aspect of things effectively, the cues sort of take care of themselves versus trying to over recruit something that actually becomes interference. At the end of this video, I added a second segment to this video, which is a discussion with Alex and there are a couple of cues to help you identify some breathing elements in regards to position, literally based on what the breathing actually sounds like. So you can actually determine certain head and neck positions based on pitch of the breathing as well. So that's kind of a cool little thing to sort of pay attention to. So again, thank you Ivan. Thank you Alex for your questions. If you would like to participate in a 15 minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman@gmail.com. Please put '15 minute consultation' in the subject line so we don't delete it, put your question in the email, and we will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday, and I'll see you tomorrow.

Okay. To externally rotate, I have to untwist the internal rotation.

I'm sure people want to see your face though, Jack.

Yes.

Mm hmm.

I can't think of any off the top of my head anyway. No, but I don't look at that stuff.

OK. And then so if somebody is oriented, let's just use the right side. So they're on the right side and they're using orientation on the right side to create the external rotation. That would be a right posterior lower compression. So again, this is like we're making good references here to all the other questions, right? So this was the exact question with his weightlifter. So his weightlifter is actually compressed and posterior lower on the right side. That would require a compensatory ER on that right side, which means that you have the posterior lower compression there. Okay, so if I tried to turn that person to the left, they can face that direction very easily. But if I understand the premise correctly in regards to how someone would behave is they would have gone like this first and then forward, right? So I'm going to turn like that and then I go forward. And it's like, oh, so that was two moves in one. Now granted, it was on that angle, right? You understand it's unresultant. But it's got two pieces to it. And so under those circumstances, maybe depending on how far forward their center of gravity is, maybe you can just turn it into a left hand turn and be successful. But if they're more forward that their center of gravity has been pushed, I might need to pull them back on that right side first, then make the left hand turn, because they need, otherwise they're just, as we would say, turning like a refrigerator, right? Which is again, I can face that way, but that wouldn't be the turn with relative motion.

Yeah. So again, it's like you're not pushing him to max capabilities. You're trying to expose him to a variety of things. But you're starting to see what he is starting to be capable of, because he's going to hit puberty pretty soon, right? And then you're going to go through another big change. And so like I said, the setup becomes very, very important that he has an understanding of meaning in regards to what is expected of him, what you're trying to achieve. He's probably still a little bit more malleable in this age range than he will be three years from now where his physiology will start to sort of solidify towards his adult representation, right? And so I think it's advantageous at this point is to start to include things that you think are really, really far away from what he's demonstrating. So if he's showing these IR strategies, high force type strategies, it's like let's see what happens when I do put him in a situation where expansion would be the desired outcome, where we're getting more external rotation that like the posterior expansion that we always talk about is that is where we get that extra rotation to superimpose the IRR. It's like, can I put him in these other situations to where now he has the, this broader range of capabilities he has, he has the spaces to protect himself where he's going to superimpose the high forcing.

now.

You're a big tube. You're a worm. And I'm not saying that to be insulting. I'm just saying it's like, that's where you came from.

So think about this. There are a couple of influences here. First, consider all the concepts taught in strength training about how to increase force output: recruitment, rate coding, synchronization. Do you understand what I'm talking about? For instance, if we've read 'Science and Practice of Strength Training,' that book explains a lot of this material. It covers concepts like recruitment, synchronization, rate coding, and intra-intermuscular coordination—all of which contribute to force output. The idea is that by performing a high-force activity, we promote all of these elements. We bias the movement toward a concentric orientation to ensure force production, while also training the connective tissue element, which exhibits rate-dependent behavior.

For you to get into a deep squat, you have to have descent of the pelvic diaphragm to a sufficient degree to access that space. Something has to give way to create the space. It's not always a pelvic diaphragm. Sometimes it's a lower back, by the way. But we're talking about like in a perfect world kind of a representation, right? That I will go in the direction that the pelvic diaphragm can move. So for me to sit down into a deep squat, but to push up out of the deep squat, that has to reverse gears. It has to push up and create that higher pressure mechanism. Yeah, yeah. So shape matters, cross-sectional area matters, neural drive matters, like all that stuff is in play to whatever degree.