Right.

It's part of it because it creates an orientation for me.

No, that kind of covers what I've been up to. I'm on the same page there.

Yep. Awesome. Thank you. Um, and then can we dive a little bit into, I guess, I understand kind of like off of like the, just like basic narrow wide archetypes, like which range of motions might be magnified versus diminished. And I feel like you get a little bit lost once you start talking about secondary compensations, and then in terms of like, I like the sacrum and lumbar spine, if like one's rotated like towards or away and then something gets magnified, just get a little bit lost there. So like some clarification there.

Yeah, like I said, I think it's fair that again, if this is within your scope and this is within your capabilities, then I think it's okay. But ultimately, like I said, and I think in your situation, you know, where you are in your career, it's probably useful for you to have this understanding of them. I don't know to what extent you would need to use them. But again, if it provides you confirmations, if it provides you some element of guidance, if your clients are okay with it, then I think that it becomes useful. But ultimately, ultimately, it would be really cool when you get to the point where you just look across the gym and you go, I know what's going on. Here's what we're going to do. Then you intervene and then you see it clean up. Those are the really cool moments.

Okay, so let's determine first and foremost what would be the optimal representation to get into that position.

Exactly.

Beginning freshman. Okay.

Right.

I think so. I would expect somebody that's really broad.

Okay. Have you ever worked with anybody that was wheelchair bound? If they're wheelchair bound, they have to do certain things. Otherwise, they get a problem down there, right?

Young developing athletes and then another guy works with high level professionals and you're having a discussion. You're going to speak through those lenses, and so you might actually have disagreements as to what is most valuable in developing an athlete, but you're only speaking from your experience and you're speaking from the information that you see valuable. But this is why we see these silly arguments on social media about certain things. So there was one on Twitter, not too long ago where they were people talking about return to play aspects and what you had to measure and what was important. And so you had a group of physical therapists that do the return to play conditioning and then you had some strength conditioning coaches that do some of the end elements of that return to play. And they're speaking from their own experiences and so of course they're gonna have disagreements as to what needs to be measured and what needs to be valued. If you branded yourself a manual therapist, a manual physical therapist, you're going to see through that lens and so of course then your arguments are going to be based on that. I have cognitive biases just like everybody else does that prevent me from accepting information. I also seek information to confirm my biases because I am human. That is just one of our behaviors.

It's a shirt. It's a shirt. Probably too small, like a cute muscle. How are you looking at that in regards to an acute muscle strain? Grade one to two, not full rupture. We're not talking about tendon rupture, but legitimate muscle contractile tissue, muscle belly stuff. How are you looking at that and the management standpoint early on? So acutely and how does that affect the pressure and the ability for the muscle to work? And what are you looking to adjust with that?

Thanks, Bill.

Well I think it just makes things stronger too, right? So like one relationship I come back to as well is Joey, you know I mean, what a great guy to be. Joey Burton is the skills coach for NBA professionals, Euro league players, college, high school. Basically, if you want to get better basketball in this area, you can see Joey. And so just that relationship, you know, people could say, well, if it's just dollars, right, they can spend money with Joey or they can spend money with me, or they could spend money with both of us and we could have this amazing product that you put out there, right? And so I think too often people get caught up in this like zero sum game. Somebody wins, somebody loses, right? And that's not how it works in most cases. It's about help.

If you want to, you can write something out or just monitor for the next few weeks and then we can have another conversation later to discuss how you're doing, what you're doing from a strategy standpoint, what your KPIs are, and whether those have changed over time. Then we can move forward from there. That sounds perfect. Cool with that?

Yeah.

I don't use that term. What orientation would it be?

I wanted to ask about early feet and whether the big toe can't really come onto the ground. They can't get the big toe to the ground? Yeah, is that an early foot? So to capture the early representation, which is the superimposition of internal rotation, the first metatarsal head would have to hit the ground.

Well, essentially it's a, so think about this. When you have a normal late foot, okay, normal representation of late foot. This is not the clawed toes or anything. This is just like somebody that some miracle human being that doesn't have any problems, right? The musculature that would lift the heel are also the muscles that would bend the toes. So instead of bending the toes, the toes appear to be straight, the heel comes off the ground, and so those muscles sort of reverse the action. In the late for the year describing, you have somebody whose center of gravity has gone forward. The heel is actually lightened under that circumstance. It might still be in contact with the ground, but because it's in contact with the ground, the muscles that would normally lift it up in a late representation don't lift it up. They just pull back against the toes, and that's why you're seeing that. So you get the short toe muscles on the top. You get the long toe muscles on the back. And so essentially what you have, you have a foot that's trying to leave the ground. So if you see a magnification of that strategy, right? And you'll see them sort of white knuckle the floor, right? Because the center of gravity is still, they still have a late representation. So they're still not going to be able to sit back, right? They're going to try, but again, the center of gravity is still too far forward. And so what they're going to try to do is they're going to try to push the forefoot down into the ground, right? And so it's not a great delay because the connective tissue behavior would still be in an overcoming state. Now that's useful under load because it's kind of like we were just saying with Dale, it's like, okay, you put enough force on the associated with the bar load or the way that he was doing his warm up. It's like, that's how you push, like you create a yield in tissues that are stiffer. In an overcoming representation, yeah, stores and releases a lot of energy might not be necessarily ideal from a movement perspective, because again, you're stressing the connective tissue behavior, which means it's not just tendons, right? I mean, you're gonna be using bony structure, all the fascia, right? All of that stuff stores and releases energy. So can be a useful strategy and performance from a long-term perspective might not be the best case scenario, but that's probably what you're looking at.

As we're going in.

So what you may do then again, to me, just thinking about concentration of learning, is you would have one day where the greatest volume of the strongest adaptation that you're chasing is very obvious that there's a lot more on that day compared to any other day within that morphocycle. And then there's just smaller exposures to maintain that level of development until the next big exposure, which is going to promote the greatest degree of adaptation.

No. So I get a reduction in motor output, don't I? I have upper cervical ER. I have lower cervical IR, lower cervical ER under that circumstance, don't I?

She feels it immediately, like not even going forward or anything.

And then if I have to capture like a question and an answer or a thought, I will use Obsidian.

Good morning. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. Robbie, is that a question squared?

I think what I would do is take a couple of weeks and emphasize the yielding strategies to see if you can get the connected tissue behavior change, even if you extend the duration of the impulse under the circumstance and see what kind of an impact that has. That would be a good experiment to run on this person because, again, take the time constraint away and see if you can get the yielding to improve, then tighten up the time constraint.

Yeah, little things that will help you to let you know that you're on the right track: check his ability to turn his head to the left. That'll make sure that you've got a better release point when he's throwing.

I don't remember what I had for dinner last night, Zach. I mean, come on.

What, uh, when you say adjustment, what do you, well, okay.