Okay, so this is how you layer. You already understand the principle. Just explain the principle to me. What you need is another element of detail. So, if I need interpretation, what does that look like? This is how you do it. This is how you do it. This is where the struggle is. This is where you gotta do the work. Again, I can tell you exactly what it looks like. I can say, 'It's a mutated sacrum on an IR at Ilium. I have an outlet that widens and then I get a pelvic diaphragm that it becomes concentrically oriented.' I can tell you all that stuff, but it's not gonna be meaningful. You can repeat it now. You can go into social media and say, 'Oh, I'm working on the bottom of the split squat,' and you can repeat exactly what I said, but you're not gonna understand it. Right? What you want to do is you want to understand that you got to struggle for this stuff. It's like, 'Yeah, I can lay out a cookbook for you, but it's going to fail.'

Gotcha. So if we're talking about a bench press lockout, okay. High force, high force. What would be your expectation that would be a favorable representation of an ISA for somebody that has to produce high force, strong exhalation, strong exhalation, right? Concentric orientation in internal rotation. What would be your expectation that I should see in an optimal situation for that level of performance? Do you know?

If I don't understand the fact that I'm producing shape changes that produce turns into ER and IR, I won't understand how I can apply load to a split squat to emphasize capturing more internal rotation or more external rotation. So to wrap all this up, what I want you to recognize is that when we're talking about the extra rotations that are moving through the pelvis via these shape changes in turns, this initial phase of hip movement in ER is actually this late propulsive strategy and then as I get into this deeper range of ER this is actually going to be represented by my early propulsive strategies. So hopefully that answers your question, Johnny. Great question. I really think that this is an important point to clarify for people because I think they're getting caught up in a lot of straight, plain thinking that we just have to start to eliminate because it's going to limit our ability to select the appropriate interventions.

So what I want you to do is go back and look at this week's video on the Camperini deadlift, because that's where you're going to start. We've got to reorient the sacrum. If I have this late propulsive strategy showing up too soon, I've got a sacrum that's getting pushed way over and facing the right. I've got to bring it back to the left. The Camperini deadlift sequence is where you're going to start. Then you're going to move down into half kneeling and split stance activities so you can capture this really strong middle propulsive phase where you need to capture the internal rotations. Now we have the normal mechanics restored where we have a sacrum that we can reorient. We can move through the internal rotation and external rotation phases of propulsion. Make sure you're addressing foot position as well. I think that would provide you the best solution under the circumstances.

Sandy goes on to say that if we held the same PHB upside down, but the ankles are placed in all fours with the pelvic diaphragm to send the same level as when standing during inhalation or adapt accordingly to the changes in gut pressure. So this is going to be an adapt accordingly question. So this is exactly why we use different body positions and orientations to gravity as we're trying to influence the motor output strategies that we would see or to reacquire ranges of motion, because what we can do by orienting the body, we can change the shape of the axial skeleton very easily. We can alter the influence of gravity that makes requiring movement much more easy because we can reduce the demands on the motor output and reduce these compensatory strategies that actually interfere with movement. So this would be one of those things when we talk about inversion, for instance, when we put a narrow and a prone inversion, we will put a wide and a supine inversion because of the shape of the descending thoracic diaphragm and then the resultant public outlet shape. And so we have a better shot at influencing those in those situations. We would take a wide and we put them on their side because just laying laying someone on their side increases the anterior post your expansion capability So for instance, if you're in the gym and you're trying to decide Oh, do I need to do prone plank or or like a side plank? You might make the decision to put your narrows and prone and your wides in a side plank simply because you get a much better shape change if your goal if your goal is to restore restore movement That's to alleviate compensatory strategies. Now having said all of that, there will come a point in time where everybody will use a compensatory strategy. So we see this in high levels of performance, so under situations of high force or high speed, eventually you're going to hit a threshold where you're going to have to use a compensatory strategy where we're gonna reduce the relative motion between movement segments where we're gonna use superficial strategies because to move quickly, forcefully, we're gonna have to use this extra musculature, that's why it's there. Now the question becomes is do I wanna carry around those movement strategies all the time? And that tends to be why people come to see people like me where they have a movement related problem that they can't solve or they might have some pain related issues associated with using these compensatory strategies in a lower intensity context. So I hope that answers your questions. If it doesn't, please ask another question at askbillhartman at gmail.com or throw a question up here on the Instagram or YouTube if you're wherever you're watching this. Have a great Friday, have a great weekend, and I will see you next week.

I mean, we will get sore in that area.

I really liked in this period because our clients are between the ages of 45 and 65, and we have some outliers who are 23. We do have like some 75-year-olds. But the group of people that I have taken on, we're getting really back to the basics. Like we're goblet squatting, we're doing lunges, we're doing bodyweight stuff, we're doing banded rows or whatever we can do. We're not loading them up. And I think they're actually seeing they're more comfortable in a sense that they're not feeling banged up when they leave or the next day. Their recovery is down. And even though their stress levels are a little bit less because they're not working as much, but we're able to get back to the basics of what do they actually need.

And you have no idea why it works. So here's how you get better as a practitioner: you do stuff, you pay attention to what happens, and then you do that over a period of years, and then you start to recognize certain behaviors are related to certain interventions. More often than not, if I do this, I get that, and then you do more of that, and you're still gonna be wrong 26% of the time, but 74% of the time you're gonna be right, and then that's how you get better. So your probabilities get better. It's not that you know what's going to happen because you don't.

That's awesome. I appreciate you coming on to do this because I know that these things are very, very important. People need to understand the value of these case studies and how they progress. I think we need to do more of this. We need to actually show more examples of how we can make these impacts and these instantaneous changes that a lot of people can't get from a more traditional approach. And again, I don't think that we're so far ahead or anything like that. I just think that the perspective lends itself to a much more impactful result. So again, I appreciate you for coming on. And I think we should do this again.

Yeah, I think it's a perfect compliment. And this is one of the things, if we can talk about just the business structure for a minute, because I think this is kind of important, especially for small business owners, is this is the kind of thing that I think is the way for the smaller businesses to grow that still provide services as their primary offering, because we have to depend on each other. So, agility is a soccer-based facility, but we provide strength conditioning, athletic development concepts, et cetera, et cetera. So, these are the perfect complements. Rather than being in competition with one another, we are complementary. And so, I think that all small businesses need to start looking at this from a survival standpoint, because there are so many things that are now available online that people are sort of gravitating towards that, but we still have this massive ability to provide the personalized services. But for us to stay afloat, to stay alive and to thrive, I think that the small businesses, and we have associations with a lot of people now, that provide referrals back and forth and so on and so forth. But I think that a lot of small businesses don't really see that as how powerful it really is. Because the relationships that you capture, and again, you just find those non-competing professionals that, hey, that would be a really nice compliment for me. So when we reach out and we reach out to other medical professionals, I mean, we get referrals from other physical therapists and such, but we have physicians, we have dentists, we have eye doctors, we have podiatrists, we have nutritionists, we have massage therapists. We have massage therapists, et cetera, that we all associate, let's shout out to the recovery room as well. So all of those people are, I consider them just part of our organization, if you will. And I think that a lot of small businesses really need to consider this as they develop and as they grow, it's like that's a huge part of the existence. How can we stay in this for 11 years by ourselves? I don't think it's possible.

Me the boss.

So here's where that comes from. We talk about internal rotation producing force and extra rotation velocity. High measures of muscle output cannot be demonstrated at the same time you're demonstrating velocity because it is the release of the energy that you had stored. There's initial tension, relaxation, tension again. So once again, it's like you're creating that pressure differential that allows the velocity to be demonstrated because if I hold my breath and squeeze everything really tightly, my punch is really slow.

Especially at this point in the season.

I'm totally with you.

Yeah. Right.

Okay. All right. So if we're going to cut on the right foot, and we need an IR, exhaled representation of the pelvis, what is the outlet representation on that side?

I guess then just lastly sort of using bullpen or a game situation. If we do look at something like Charlie Francis and his sprint work, it would be like, okay, the same day that we sprint as fast as we can, we're going to in this case like lift heavy as we can. I just try to just try a couple. That's what I'm kind of getting at. Just like couple all that on one day so that we have clear days that give us a chance to recapture.

It tenses the neck muscles.

Okay, hang on. Where did you bend her?

Yeah, yeah.

So you're crawling across the floor on your hands and knees, you push back into your feet, you sit down into a deep squat, you touch your toes and then you stand up. Bottom up. There you go. Okay. So when you're looking at a toe touch representation because we're all grownups and stuff. We tend to start these things from the top down, even though they're bottom up activities. So the representation is that you're in a late representation at the top. You have to pass through middle on the way down, and you're going to be in an early representation at the bottom. Okay? You follow? Yeah. So she walked in, and again, it's like, you know, she had a lot of ER represented, not a lot of IR, because the IR, like the way she was putting IR into the ground was way far away from midline. Okay? And what you did is you gave her the capacity to delay the current representation that she was in. She went from late to early. She superimposed some IR. So you gave her the end of the toe touch. Because you gave her some IR to use, she was able to access some representation of middle. So the toe touch gets better, pain gets better. So you gave her the delay, and then you gave her an opportunity to change shape. And then we're kind of back to Dante's question a little bit, right? Because all she did, she couldn't change shape. Therefore, she couldn't move into those spaces. You follow?

Okay.

Got it. And there is a difference between right and left-handed pitchers that I got to worry about.

Why was that funny? Say what? Why did that get a laugh?

Yeah, but not in a strength and conditioning sense like I've been on the mat with quite a few of them.

Well, not much. You can tell by looking at their feet.

So that would be the turn. So if I'm here, okay, that would be me turning.

So I need the posterior outlet to eccentrically orient, right? What do I capture under that circumstance? If I get the posterior outlet to eccentrically orient, what movement do I pick up? E-R-I-R. Right. Remember that's down and back, right?

Yeah.

Yup. That makes sense.