And I would refer you to a mental model that is very useful, called the map is not the territory. So when we're talking about human movement, some of the models that we've used in the past are mere representations of what we think that we understand. So I make fun of dead guy and me a lot because one, well, it's very, very easy, but it's also a somewhat useful representation is because there is some of that stuff that does influence how we can perceive movement to be created but we also have to understand that the cadaver is not the human so cadavers don't breathe they don't move They tend to be dry and not fluid-based. Again, we have to recognize the limitations of that model.

Right. There you go. Love that. Love that. I think it's brilliant. Your arms look good today.

All right. Man. Amen. We'll sign off for now, and then we will come back in the future with another case. All right.

From a medical perspective, I kind of look at it as a case management situation. It's like, okay, who do you need? How can we help you? And then that just makes us a better client for sure. I mean they're much happier, they're satisfied. We always work with good people, thankfully we haven't had any issues in that regard. We always find really, really good professionals. And so I think that's just a big, big part of it, but like I said, I think that a lot of small businesses really need to consider the relationships they're making or not making in regards to their ability to grow their business and not just survive but to thrive.

Yeah, man. Sounds great.

Okay, so when the muscle compresses very quickly, the connective tissue behavior has to follow. So you're doing it all the time, as long as you have a gradient. When we talk about rate of force development, the muscle is tuning the connective tissue behavior to produce the outcome. So we can make connective tissue changes without a representation of active movement, because the muscle is changing its shape, it's changing the shape of the connective tissues and it's going to release the energy. So there are certain qualities like starting strength, which is force produced before you start to move. Well, how is that even possible? Because the muscle is changing its length relative to the connective tissue behavior. So you're producing the yield in the connective tissue behavior without ever moving. The muscle moves, it lengthens the connective tissue, puts it in a yielding position, and then you initiate the movement and you move quicker. You can move faster because you learned how to produce force very, very quickly. That tunes the connective tissue and then you release the energy. So that's how that works. So you have to be able to create the gradient within the muscle itself. You have to be able to create the gradient within the segment of the body itself. And then you have to look at the body as a whole as far as the shape that's changing. So it's just a fractal representation, right? Everything that's small does the same thing as everything that's big.

Greetings. I have some ambiguity regarding the relationship of the spine, the ileum, the hip joint and the femur in the gait cycle from the standpoint of internal rotation and external rotation. And I wanted to ask for some clarity about it. So in the gait cycle, when you just start swinging the leg forward—let's say the left is swinging forward—that the ilium is contracting and hence the standing side is protracting. When you move the leg forward, when you just start moving the legs forward, is it in front of you? Yes, okay, I'm with you. So the ilium in that side protracts.

I guess, stay organized. Well, okay, so it depends on what you want to stack weight on. Do you want to stack weight on a mushy bag of water or do you want to stack weight on a pillar of stiffness, right? That's essentially what you're doing. So here's what I would suggest you do. Sometime today you get on Google Scholar or PubMed or whatever your favorite research-based search engine would be, and you want to look at the difference between the respiratory and postural behavior of the diaphragm. And it will answer many of your questions that you have running through your head right now.

So sometimes I'll see athletes with a late foot where their toes are scrunching up. They're going into the squat, and yeah, so is that just them trying to overcome before they initiate the squat, trying to transfer yield somewhere else? Like, what are we doing?

Awesome. Okay. Are you slowing down or are you speeding up?

Okay.

No.

Okay. And you said it was already hard for her to do.

Okay.

Yes, yes.

Got it. Okay, I was thinking about it the wrong way. I didn't think about it as a yielding, and I thought about it as either a lack of being able to turn the yield around so like you can get to overcoming fast enough or you had a bad job like we were talking about earlier of concentrically pushing stuff back up.

Okay. Start them in late IR, late ER. Start them sideways. Roll him.

I'm just setting the stage, I guess.

The balancing act with all of these athletes that we're talking about here is that they obviously need the orientations in order to create the force they need to be good at their events. So there's going to be that constant trade-off with that they're never going to be able to reduce completely. But we can buy them a little bit more space or a bit more of a window. You could potentially improve it. Do you know of anyone that's actually done any sort of testing where they've got someone who is, you know, potentially an end game representation, put them into a VR2 max test or something similar and then done an adjustment and then retested them?

Yeah.

Doing this and doing this is not the same. You see the pivot through the chair. Absolutely. That's what you have to recognize when you're doing these virtuals because you have to use the dynamic complex movements to identify where the deficits are.

Right. Remember that's down and back, right?

Repeat one second.

Got it. I think I get it, or anything about it, but probably ask you about it again next week.

Well, I'm thinking that perhaps the down pump handle is going to be some contributor there.

Yeah. What orientation did you just put the pelvis in?

Yeah.

Into external rotation?

This is what I do. Do you want to see what I do? I do this. I pick up the phone and I go, Bill?

Okay. So I've created some interference. Right? I got an early foot and a late pelvis. You see it? That doesn't make it a bad thing. It just tells you where everything's going to stop, but this then becomes useful. Because what I'm going to do is I'm going to start creating the energy transfer, right? With your hands.