So, what you did is you created a reorganization of the shape in which you could assume, which was to produce internal rotation. And therefore, when you retested it, you were able to demonstrate that representation and therefore it felt better.

I see what you're saying.

Hello, Bill. Yes. I wanted to wish you a happy late birthday.

So nothing is separate. Nothing is separate, right? It's all at the same time, just that in the heterarchy of representations, right? One might be a little bit more influential than something else.

Could you go through that again?

Pushing out. Yeah. As the non-working leg lifts, you kind of rotate the hip towards the femur just a little bit to get a little...

Uh huh. Uh huh.

Oh, okay.

But let's just say that that 40 degrees was only the spine turning.

You didn't blow it; we just learned something, that's all okay. So, she's got to be able to internally rotate. She's got to—we're talking about the hip now, relative to the pelvis. The thing you're going to want to do is making sure she's capturing her distal-to-proximal cues. So, you got to start with her foot representation and say, okay, do I really have the best foot representation? When you're teaching people to internally rotate the hip, what foot context do you need? You're recruiting the right musculature.

Okay.

Variability would be associated with the application and the environment itself. So here you go, Andrew. If I tell you, I'm going to jab you in the face three times with my left hand and then follow it with a right, I just told you what's going to happen. Your predictability is very, very high. And then if I said, we're just going to spar, now I've just reduced the predictability that you don't know what's going to happen. But it's still variable. So both of them are variable, one just has a higher degree of predictability.

That makes... Here's what I used to do. I would do the get up and goes, I would do box squats, and then we would dance. With the guys, with the older guys, Tai Chi, they're not real big on hugging and stuff. With the older ladies, you put on their favorite music and then you dance. And that teaches them to shift their weight from one leg to the other. So then they start to unweight and then you do your toe taps, right? And then you do your little baby step ups and stuff like that. And that's how you get there. Okay. Excellent. I apologize. I got to go. I got another call. Thank you, Bill. That was great. I appreciate it. See you all in a couple of weeks, okay? Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, today is Wednesday. That means tomorrow is Thursday, which means 6 a.m. tomorrow morning. Coffee and Coaches conference call, as usual. Grab yourself a cup of coffee. Join us for some outstanding Q and A. Great people, great questions, lots of good information. Please join us. 6 a.m. Thursday morning. Link will be on my professional Facebook page. Digging into today's Q and A. We're gonna kill two birds with one stone. We had a question on I've asked you that came up in regards to some queuing on the supine cross connect email kind of asking something very, very similar. We just happened to answer this question last week on the coffee and coaches conference call. It's a relatively short video, but you'll get a lot of information out of it. The one thing you want to understand about many exercises is there's many ways to coach them and queue them depending on the desired outcome depending on the architect. The architects do not behave the same way in the same circumstance, so we need to pay attention to such things. If you have any questions about that, lots of information on the YouTube channel, so please go there and watch those videos as well. If you would like to participate in a 15 minute consultation, please go to askbillhartmanedgymail.com, put 15 minute consultation in the subject line so we don't delete it. Please include your question in the email. We will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everyone have an outstanding Wednesday. I will see you tomorrow morning, 6 AM, coffee and coaches conference call.

In an early?

I hope so. Think about this: how are you going to get air into the upper dorsal rostral if it's pressing against the back of the thorax? That doesn't mean you can't get the arm overhead; it just means you're not going to get it overhead at an ER representation.

Like holding their arm.

So quadruped is too narrow for him.

If you're cool with it, I would like to shift gears to something else that I've heard you speak on before. And it's the idea that people find really interesting—I've heard you say that a lot of traditional stretches, like static stretches, are actually concentrically orienting some muscles, maybe not all the time, but frequently we see all the time. And then can you expand upon that? Like the time I heard you say it was about a door frame pec stretch and how that's actually the inverse.

So using bilateral symmetrical just as like a lesser means of just teaching force production in a gravity dependent position, and then the shortened stagger, just the means of not putting as much IR on that back leg and gradually bringing it to more IR.

Cool, because I stopped doing that some time ago and I noticed that people just get a better inhale.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm always increasing the stiffness under those circumstances. And then the question is, is there a yield? There has to be a yield, right? But where is the yield? Are they yielding it like a patellar tendon and Achilles tendon, like we would say for a jumper? Or are they yielding more through the skeleton? Because that stores and releases more energy per unit of deformation, because it is a stiffer tissue.

So you want the anterior outlet to be able to go up, concentrically orient into an exhaled representation, right? We want that because that's going to bring the ASIS closer together. It's going to help with twist and it's going to help us create some anterior-posterior tension. You see it? Yes. Okay. So think about this for a second: If I could take all of the weight off of the anterior outlet, it would be easier for me to concentrically orient, right? Because then it's like doing an imaginary biceps curl— I can curl an imaginary thousand-pound dumbbell any day of the week since there's no actual weight. So if I can take all the weight off the outlet, I have an advantage that will allow me to move that outlet into a position that buys me the position I'm looking for in regards to taking tension off the inguinal ligament. Do you see it? Right. Okay. What position is that though? Inversion. There you go. So you've got to work towards that as much as you possibly can. Now you have to keep in mind that you have to acquire the capabilities to get to that position, right? So again, maybe you have to start in a sidelying activity to recapture the effective range of motion, but as you move them towards a quadrupedal representation, that's beneficial because it takes load off of the outlet. But if you can invert them right away— you can sort of build it. What I'll do is I use those air X pads, you know, the ones you can inflate. So you build up the air X pads and put that underneath their pelvis so their head is lower than their pelvis right away, but I'm still working within their capabilities of position. Like I don't have to take them out of that position, but I have to build it up that way.

So it seems like in one case you could do something more like a half kneeling whereas in the second case you have something more like a split squat.

What does that look like in terms of what I would see?

Because yeah, I don't want to mess with it, but I'm looking at my eyes are like, wait a second because he's also a baseball player too and I keep trying to tell him like this particular kid, him like hey, go play another sport. And he's like, I don't want to.

If I potentially, yes. But let's give her a space where we can teach her how to yield.

And so this is a little bit of that. You'll see me talking through the group as we're working on this position. So hopefully this will be useful for a lot of people, like I said, especially students that have trouble understanding these concepts. All right. So if you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman@gmail.com, askbillhartman@gmail.com. Put 15-minute consultation in the subject line so we don't delete it. We will arrange that at our mutual convenience. As I said, yesterday, I'm a little behind because of the intensive, so hang in there. I'll get to you. Just be patient. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday, and I will see you tomorrow. Early representation of the foot. So let's bend your knees and let's keep the feet on contact with the foot. Okay. So, he really likes to be in an ER representation. We've got a super pronator on top of this. Okay, so where am I going to start to cue the foot? He really likes to be supinated. He doesn't know how to feel the movement in the subtalar joint. He can't separate. So do what you would naturally try to do. Don't think like a therapist. Think like a normal human being. Yeah, it's going to be hard. Okay, but so if I say put, yeah, if I say do it on this side so they can see them. So if I say put pressure on the inside edge of your foot, on your first met head and inside heel, you're going to try to do this hip thing and you're going to turn, that's anterior orientation. So that's an ER representation of the foot with pressure on the medial side. If you were making a cut off of your right foot, I'd probably be okay with that at one moment in time, right? Okay? But we want relative motion in the subtalar joint. So I take my little wrench that fits right over the talus, and I jam it right down on top of it. So the talus is going to be right there. And that's my measure for subtalar neutral. I can grab the calcaneus, and I grab the talus, and I can actually hold that in that middle representation. If I take your foot and I push it straight down, do you feel how it will pick up your first metatarsal head and your heel? Well, I got you heavy on your heel. So if I do that, but I don't want to teach you to load your first met head more in this position, right? So early is going to be heel to first met head, so the heel is always going to be a little heavy. Yeah. Okay. But what I want to do now is I want to teach you to find that. So I'm going to take you where you love to be, and then a little bit farther so you can feel the subtalar motion, but I don't want it to come through the hip. So I'm just going to put my hand on your knee and I'm going to roll you out. So I still got my wrench on the talus. I'm grabbing the talus. I'm just going to roll it out. So I, see how I push the, my thumb is pushing you into the ER representation of the talus. And then I'm going to roll you back in. I'm going to take you past where I want you to go because all I'm trying to teach you is the excursion, because I don't want maximum pressure on the medial border of your foot. I want the optimal pressure. So I roll you out. I roll you in. I roll you out. I roll you in, and then I'm going to say, now, when I roll you back in, why don't you tell me when you start to feel that inside to the heel and the first metatarsal. Okay. And then I'm going to load it. I'm going to say, are you a little heel heavy there? Yeah. Awesome. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Hold that for me. Okay. If I push down, you still feel a heel heavy. That's going to be that's going to move the hand towards a more max P moment.

Yeah.