Yeah.

Yeah.

Yes, repeat your question. Seeing that the wave appears to go no further than the lumbar spine and then sort of comes back down again. Okay, let me stop you there. I think I can get you from yeah maybe okay so

So if our trampoline is pulled too taut and the springs are too tight, and you walk out onto the trampoline and it feels like a wood floor, you just soften up the springs a little bit. So you get the yield that she's going to need to help throw the guts up off of the trampoline. You can start doing that right now, literally, because the same thing we're just talking about is like you've got her seated on her heels. So you've got an athlete sitting on this box that you can influence. You're going to do it through the remainder of the actual skeleton through the upper extremities, but it's the same outlet behavior that she's going to need when she's up on her feet. So you develop it now.

Does the whole sternum go down at the same time?

Okay.

Okay.

Very good. Would there be a tiny little muscle on the elbow that would also put the all in a specific position.

I see enough of a variety that because I get all the weird stuff, not weird people, but just the stuff that yesterday I had a lady, a former college basketball player who blew out her patella tendon. She had a bunch of scarring. She hadn't been able to straighten her knee for nine years. And we did a little thingy and now she can straighten her knee just because they didn't account for some of the twists and turns. But the foot representation that she had on the right side—she's like six foot three—and the foot representation that she had on the right side was a crushed middle, middle propulsive foot, which is not what you would expect.

Yes.

Say the magic words. Sometimes it works.

Okay. And so I get a shape change through the femur that comes up to promote the shape change into the pelvis. You see it? So I put pressure there. That allows the IR to come this way. I got to push back against it. There's the IR representation there. And then I get the pressurization of the outlet coming up. I get the nutation of the sacrum to squeeze. And then there's my higher pressure representation. As I descend past that, if I want to keep going in the downward direction, the IR representation is going to stop me. That upward pressure is what you use to get out of the squat. So I got to let that go. If I let the motor output decrease, Dante now knows that if I reduce the motor output, I have greater potential for yielding in the connected tissues. That's what happens at the bottom of the squat. And I go back into my ER representation, which is that. To get out of the squat, I got to push this back up so that pelvis will do this. So I can push the IR back down into the femur and stand back up. So in the descent, the IR is coming this way. In the ascent, the IR is going that way.

You do that by position? Okay, so number one, you have to be put in a position where you don't need concentric orientation in the limiting musculature.

If I put a weight in your left hand, you got two options. Either you're going to tip over to the left or you're going to respond to the load. If you get the load correct, you create a delay strategy on the left side, which is superimposition of IR and ER. You understand? On the other side, you're increasing the duration that you're in middle. Do you see the combination of factors? Both of them are going to superimpose an internal rotation because number one, you're adding load. Where you add the load is going to determine what the strategies will be. But the two strategies are not exactly the same. Both are going to superimpose IR. One is going to superimpose the IR and the ER. The other one is going to compress the space on the other side and promote more IR, less ER. Do you see the difference?

She doesn't have any.

Forward.

Well, you want to think about the bias of a wide stance. They're biased towards a middle, middle propulsive representation, right? Okay. I do the suitcase carry. Definitely going to capture a medial heel. The question is, can I take that and hang onto it through midstance? Yeah. Got it. Okay. But you're thinking like you've got it. Whatever picture you have in your head is correct. All right, I appreciate it, man. Thank you so much. You did great. Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I have neuro coffee in hand, and it is perfect. All right. Well, today is Wednesday. That means that tomorrow is Thursday. That means tomorrow morning, 6 a.m. Coffee and Coaches Conference call. As usual, grab yourself a cup of coffee. Please join us for some great Q&A. Obviously, these calls are getting better and better. You see segments of this almost every day of the week. So please join us live. Get your questions answered. And like I said, just associate with some really, really good people, really smart people, which leads us into today's Q&A. And this is with Alec. And this was a great discussion. This is only part of a really long discussion that took place on one of the calls. Basically, Alec is evolving his repertoire of activities and how he's moving clients through their process. One of the things we run into is when we're teaching somebody that doesn't really understand what we're talking about, doesn't really understand how to move well, we tend to start in these static positions so they can capture certain cues in certain positions. And then that's one of the ways we're going to recapture some of the relative motions they need to move well. But then what do we do? How do we move them from these static positions into more dynamic activities? And so we talk about that a fair amount here. We use concepts like leading resistances, positions, and strategies to help people move into this more of a dynamic nature of activity. And that's what this segment is about. So it covers a lot of ground within a relatively short period of time. So thank you, Alec, appreciate this question and your thinking. Everybody have an outstanding Wednesday. I will see you tomorrow morning, 6 a.m. Coffee and Coaches, kind of, let's go.

Just lift them up a little bit. Yeah. It's just like doing a heels elevated activity on your feet.

Yes, right.

Maybe, but she's a wider case.

Thank you. There's a whole bunch of strategy here that we can work through. You do like the front foot elevated split squat. That slows him down. You could do like an offset box squat after that, where you're gonna hold him back in a middle representation, right? And again, all you're trying to do is slow that left side down as they're producing the force.

Yeah. Yeah, right.

Please include your question in the email. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Wednesday. I will see you tomorrow at 6 a.m. Coffee and Coaches Conference call. See ya. Yeah, so let me give you a foot representation and then an axial representation. Okay. You're doing a left leg forward split squat. So your right foot is behind you. There are four points of contact in that foot. When you're in that position, only the first metatarsal and fifth metatarsal heads are on the ground. Oh, this is what the toes are for. So now I have a big toe and a first metatarsal, and a little toe and a fifth metatarsal. For me, that relative motion would be my ground contact. So there are four points of contact there. If I step back and I drop my back foot to the ground, those toes become part of the first metatarsal and the fifth toe becomes part of the fifth metatarsal, and then I have my heel.

Yeah.

Backwards. Backwards, right? And where the VLs were really concentric, they're a lot calmed down at this point in time. And the VMOs that were a little inactive are definitely more active. And it seems to be opening me up and starting to get me in the right direction.

Yeah, so if you have a thorax that's anteriorly oriented, which you do, and then I lay down on the table, like you're gonna do a table measure, the thorax can roll back, right? The question is how much of the cervical spine is moving to allow that thorax to move, right? So if I have a C1 and a C2 that will turn, the whole thorax is facing this way under most circumstances. I lay down on the table, my right shoulder hits the table, my upper cervical spine turns and it allows the left shoulder to come back down to the table. That's what skews those measures.

Yeah.

And I blew it.

They're not biased towards flexion. Let's be clear about this. They just move on their helical angle, just like the wide guy does. But if I have a more vertical helical angle, it's much easier. I'm moving closer to the helix immediately by constraining them into a position.

So variability and predictability aren't, it's not like one side of a spectrum. That's what I'm trying to figure out.