Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. We're in the midst of a very busy Tuesday. We're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Alec. Alec had a question in regards to the setup of a low oblique sit. And so we literally went step by step through this so that you do get a little representation there. And I threw up a photo so you can actually see the setup of the low oblique sit very clearly. The advantage here is that we can put people into an extra rotation space that they do have available. So as people get anteriorly, posteriorly compressed, what happens to the external rotation is it's going to move away from midline. So if we put something in an oblique set, we can actually line them up in their available space and then start to superimpose the internal rotation from distal to proximal and get the proximal change. So we start to get a shape change towards an IRD representation of the pelvis. You'll typically use this probably more often in your wide ISA individuals because if we take this wide ISA individual that's compressed A to P, lay them on their back, we don't usually get the shape changes that we're looking for. The sideline activities tend to be a better place to start with a lot of your wide ISAs. So thank you, Alec. It's going to be very, very helpful for a lot of people. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday, and we will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, busy Monday already. Quick housekeeping item: applications for the Intensive 18 are now closed. We hit our target. Selection process has begun. Applications are pretty awesome this go around, so it's going to be a tough call to get the eight people into the room. I appreciate everybody that has applied. I'm sorry that everybody won't get to come—only eight got to keep it intense, so to speak. But again, I appreciate you very much. Diving into today's Q&A, this is with Michelle. Michelle's a powerlifter. She's noticing some issues with the right foot, but it turns out it's probably going to be associated with a lack of internal rotation on the right side. So she's noticed a lack of internal rotation in the right hip, having trouble getting medial foot contacts on the right. We break her case down a little bit, give her some exercise suggestions. Even brought in Andrew, who's another individual on the call, to help us out because Andrew and I have had this conversation in the past. I was challenging him a little bit, which was kind of fun for everybody involved. Maybe not for Andrew so much, but he did a great job. I'm very pleased with the outcome and think we gave Michelle some really good recommendations to get her rolling. So if you are a powerlifter, having trouble getting that right medial foot contacts, losing some internal rotation in that right hip, that would be a great question for you. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and I will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right we are back after a very long weekend. I had a great weekend; the beginning of the weekend was the birthday bash and extended all the way through the weekend. There was like one big continuous party for about three or four days. I had a great time. Hope everybody else did too. Quick housekeeping item: the applications for the Intensive 18 will be open this week. Be looking for that in your email. If you're not on the email list, please go to billhartmanpt.com. Go to the end of any blog, put your email in there, and you will be first notified when applications are open. Digging into today's Q&A, this is with Jordan, Jordan's PT student. He had a question in regard to fake throws. When we're talking about fake throws, we're definitely concerned with issues of connective tissue behavior and gut behavior, as we are with any implement type of activity. So we're talking golf clubs, tennis rackets, throwing a baseball, swinging a bat, throwing a football. Anytime we have an implement, we have gut behaviors that we have to attend to. The difference between a fake throw and a release throw, however, have a lot to do with connective tissue behavior, and so we unpack that. So there's a lot of information in this very short video, also a little bit of a demo in there for you as well, so you can actually see some of the behaviors that we discuss. So thank you, Jordan. The question is going to help a lot of people. If you'd like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to Ask Bill Hartman at gmail.com. Please put 15-minute consultation in the subject line so I don't delete it. Please include your question in the email as well. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday, and I will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. A couple of housekeeping items. Those of you on iFast University, we have a call today, 1pm Eastern Standard Time. Please join us for that. If you're not on iFast University, go to ifastuniversity.com. Get yourself signed up and join us for that conference call today at 1pm. This week is the Intensive 17 week. So we're going to get ready to dig into that starting on Thursday. So I might as well announce Intensive 18. That's going to be July 28th through the 31st. So hold those dates. If you're not on the mentorship list, please go to any blog post on billhardmanpt.com. Get yourself signed up so you can be the first to be notified when applications open for the Intensive 18. Remember, only eight people get to come at a time. And so we have to use an application process to do so. Please get signed up. Again, billharmandpt.com. Any blog post at the very end, you can sign up for the mentorship list. Okay, digging into today's Q&A. This is with Alex. Alex asked a great foundational question talking about how the narrow ISAs move their center of gravity through space. And the thing that we want to recognize again about narrows is because of their physical structure, because of their bias towards this ER representation of the pelvis, they're going to move forward on a more vertical helical angle. So that left side is going to come forward to manage some of the internal forces that we're always dealing with. And then they're just going to move towards available space, which is typically that way. And so this discussion with Alex covers how that shape change actually occurs to allow this movement to occur. And so this is a great foundational question. So thank you, Alex, for asking. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com. Please put 15-minute consultation in the subject line so I don't delete it. Include your question in the email. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, and I'll see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, man, coming off a great weekend digging into today's Q&A. This is with Alec. This is a little bit different from what we typically talk about, but it's a very important question and an important discussion to have. And it has to do with creating an environment where you can be productive. And so this is about dealing with attention-related issues, self-regulation-related issues. So if you're working in open spaces, if you're working in commercial gyms, there's lots of distractions. When we're trying to recapture movement capabilities, in many cases it requires internalizing a lot of cues. And how do we handle these large distractions? How do we create a situation? In my case, what I do is I create a room. And so I always talk about the purple room. And I wrote a blog many, many years ago about why the room is purple. And it has to do with a clinic that I was in in Florida in the mid 90s. And this therapist had created an entire clinic that was specifically designed to improve self-regulation. And it was very, very impressive. And one of the qualities of that facility was that everything was this light sheet of purple, there was lavender scent in the air, there was music playing in the background. So he created this incredible environment. I don't go to that extreme, but I do control as many things as I can to get a home field advantage. And so this is the question that we answered for Alec is like, well, how do you do this in a commercial situation? Is there anything that we can do to help our clients improve their self-regulation to make all of the things that we're doing even more effective. So thank you, Alec. This is a big question, a very important question for a lot of people. If you'd like to participate in a 15 minute consultation, please go to Ask Bill Hartman at gmail.com. Ask Bill Hartman at gmail.com. Please put 15 minute consultation in the subject line so I don't delete it and include your question in the email if you would. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and I will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Digging into a very busy Monday. Quick housekeeping item. IFast University members, we have a call at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. So if you're not a member of IFast University, go to ifastuniversity.com. Get yourself signed up there and join us at 1 p.m. today for that call. Going into the Q&A, this is with Ian. Ian had a quick question about the difference between a fake medicine ball throw and one where there is a release. And basically we're relying on Isaac Newton here for a lot of this. With the fake throws, the connective tissue behavior becomes that of a yielding action, which actually dampens the forces involved. So we're actually spreading the force out amongst the connective tissues. And with the release, we're actually getting the overcoming action at the end of the throw. So that's the distinguishing characteristic between the two. And we discussed that in a little bit more detail in the call. So for those of you that like to use fake throws and think you're doing something, let's pay very close attention to actually what you're doing. Very useful in a rehab situation with the fake throws. I'll give full credit to my buddy Lee Taft for bringing those to light for many of the coaches and trainers. They're following Lee. He's an awesome guy and a great coach. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com. Please put 15-minute consultation in the subject line so I don't have to leave it. Please include your question in the email, and we will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, and I will see you tomorrow. Ian.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand in. It is perfect. All right. We got a very busy Monday coming up in a dig straight into this Q&A. This is actually a question that I took from email. And it comes from Brian, who had a question about McGill's Big Three. If you're not familiar with McGill's Big Three, that would be the side bridge or side plank variation, the supported curl up, and the bird dog progressions that you'll see throughout Stuart McGill's books. I highly recommend these books. Low back disorders, ultimate back fitness reforms. I think he's got a couple other ones, but those would be the big ones that I would suggest that you purchase and read. Anyway, Brian's question is, I've been reading a lot about McGill's Big Three for lower back pain. I was wondering if you had a perspective on those exercises as they relate to your model. Yes, I do. First and foremost, I think that just like any other exercises, there are prerequisites that are required to effectively perform an exercise and McGill's Big Three is, no exception to that rule. McGill's Big Three would be categorized in my model as middle propulsive activities. That means that we've got to have a very strong internal rotation representation available to us. And so if we take our little pelvis here, What we're going to want to be able to see is we're going to be able to see the shape change that takes place in the pelvis to capture our internally rotated representation with the nutated sacrum. If we're in this ER representation, then the success of those exercises is going to be compromised rather significantly. So again, we have to have an early and a late representation of internal rotation. So the early representation of internal rotation is a distal to proximal acceptance of the internal rotation, and then a production of internal rotation from proximal to distal in the late representation. And so if we don't have both of those, then the execution of the exercises are virtually impossible without a compensatory strategy. So if we looked at the setups of these exercises, so if you start with the side bridge, As you're setting up into the exercise, you're going to have to establish this early representation of internal rotation. And then as you lift up into the side bridge, that's where we're going to produce the late representation of internal rotation. So again, we have to have both representations of internal rotation to even execute the exercise. If we look at the curl up, we have a similar situation here. We have the extended extremity, which is in our late representation. But because we have bent hip on the other side because we have a ground contact with the foot we've got to have that early representation of the foot on the ground which is a superimposition of internal rotation. So again we've got internal rotation on both sides that we have to be able to to successfully acquire. Bird dog no exception. We've got a bent hip on one side, which is the support knee. That's going to be our early representation of internal rotation. We've got the extended, or I hate saying that, the extended hip on the left side is also internally rotated. That's our late representation. So again, early and late, always represented in these activities. The advantage here is knowing that we need to acquire all of these internal rotations, we can now use these exercises as the assessment as to whether these people can actually acquire it. So what we're going to see is the most common compensations that we'll have for substitutions for internal rotation. Typically, we're going to see some anterior orientation. If we can't acquire the internal rotation, then we're also going to see the ER compensatory strategy. In the side bridge, you're going to see the anti-orientation. It's much easier to see this from the side view where you can see the anti-orientation. And then from the front, you're going to see the external rotation of the hips. So this is the inability to keep the knees together as you're moving up into this side bridge position. In the curl up, same kind of a thing. We're going to see an anti-orientation. With the McGill curl up, you're placing the hands in the small of the low back, and if we're using the anterior orientation as the substitution for internal rotation, what you're going to have is you're going to have an excess space there. So chances are you won't be able to make hand contact with the lower back under most situations without having to bear down, which is what you don't want to do as a substitution for this anterior orientation, not the good substitution for that. You'll also see the extra rotation of the hip. Primarily you're going to see this in the extended extremity mainly because you're going to actually turn the entire pelvis into ER on both sides, but you're going to be able to maintain the ground contact using a compensatory strategy. on that right foot. So it's going to seem like you've got the internal rotation on one side but you can't capture on the other. When the reality is you're erring most likely on both sides. And then if we go into the bird dog it's very easy to see the anti-orientation again much like the side bridge. You'll see that anti-orientation from the side view and then you'll see the extra rotation of the hip. If you stand posteriorly you'll see the rotation of the hip and again this is extra rotation on both sides even though it's going to be more pronounced on the unsupported hip, if you will. So, Brian, I hope that's helpful for you, so you can see that there are definitely prerequisites that are required to execute the McGill's Big 3. We've got a lot of information up on YouTube as to how you can reacquire this middle propulsive strategy, internal rotation, and then successfully transfer these to any number of exercises. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, and I'll see you tomorrow. Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have neuro coffee in hand, and it is perfect. Man, as usual, a very busy Tuesday. We got a dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Zach, and Zach is working with an athlete that transitioned from swimming to running. is experiencing a diagnosis of a posterior tibial stress syndrome, aka shin splints in its common name. Basically what you're looking at under these situations is a lack of distributed yielding capabilities within the connective tissues. And so there's two extremes. You're either going to see a situation where you're in an overcoming situation with the connective tissues and therefore not getting the distributed yield, therefore you're relying on a very specific tissue as the source of yielding action or you've exhausted all of the yielding capabilities of the tissues. And once again, you're relying on a very specific tissue to provide the yielding action. And so you're going to have to determine which situation you're dealing with, which is why you can't cookbook this thing. You can't just say, oh, here's the shin splints program and just follow this and you'll be fine. Because if you give somebody the wrong situation, then you have no resolution of symptoms and then an ongoing problem that doesn't resolve. Once you have resolved symptoms, so Zach did a great job with that, immediately reduce symptoms. What we need to do is restore the distributed yield and capabilities as the athlete is producing for us. So there's two parts of this. It's alleviating the symptoms and then restoring the normal movement behaviors that would be associated with performance. And so Zach is now in that phase of the situation. We kind of talk our way through this. This also relates to video I did recently where we're talking about capturing hip internal rotation, especially for narrow ISA. We've got a very small space within which we can capture this middle internally rotated high force producing representation. And so we need to do that in a very specific manner. So if you need to go to the YouTube channel, and take a look at there's a 13 exercise sequence I believe that I used to capture a hip intro rotation to transition somebody from say ground based activities towards the return to performance which would be more high speed high force like sprinting. So again check that out. If you would like to participate in a 15 minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com askbillhartman at gmail.com. Please put 15 minute consultation in the subject line so we don't delete it. Also include your question in the email. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday and I will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. We had a very busy morning already rolling. We're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Alec. Alec asks another great foundational question regarding where we see the expressions of certain ranges of motion. We're talking about the shape change we've discussed. Over the years we've discussed it as such. The mechanical representations of levers and pulleys can be useful at times, but what we're really talking about is accessing spaces. There is no place where we'll see a representation of what we would call full range of motion. What we have are expressions of certain aspects of movement based on certain spaces. In certain spaces we'll be able to access more external rotation than internal rotation. If we have appropriate shape changes, we should be able to see an expression of the internal rotation being superimposed on the external rotation. This is what we're actually seeing as we're moving people through space and taking measurements or watching them move dynamically and accessing spaces. It all comes down to the shape change, which makes this a very important question for a lot of people. Thank you, Alec. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com. Please put '15 minute consultation' in the subject line so I don't delete it. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Don't forget to include your question in the email. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and I'll see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. Coming up a very solid weekend, ready to dig into a very busy work week. We're going to go straight into these Q&A. This is with Dale. Dale's a very accomplished powerlifter, close to 800 pound squat. We were talking about how to utilize the box squat in his favor to perhaps evolve some qualities that he may have given up in return to be able to squat 800 pounds. One of the reasons we really like the box squat is because it is so versatile. We can use it for pubic outlet issues. We can use it for managing internal forces. It's a very useful activity for those larger human beings that you typically wouldn't want to do bouncy, bouncy kind of things with, but still get the effect on the connective tissues. Again, very useful. We break this down with Dale as to what he may want to utilize in his box squat. Since he is so accomplished, but he is getting a little bit older, kind of like yours truly. Very helpful Dale. Thank you for being there. Thank you for asking your question. If you'd like to participate in a 15 minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com. Please put 15 minute consultation in the subject line so I don't delete it. Please include your question in the email. We will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and I will see you tomorrow. Is this your first question ever?

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Quick housekeeping item: Ifast University members, we have a call today at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Please don't forget about that. If you're not a member of Ifast University, please go to IfastUniversity.com to get yourself signed up and join us for that call at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today. Digging into today's Q&A with Colin, this is a great Q&A that unpacks a lot of stuff. We talked about iterative anatomy, knees and elbows, and when to utilize certain activities such as a split squat versus a low oblique versus high oblique sit. That clarification alone is probably worth the price of admission. We unpacked a lot of stuff here in a very short period of time that many of you will find useful. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com. Put '15-minute consultation' in the subject line so we don't delete it because I delete everything else. Include your question in the email and we will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everyone have an outstanding Monday and I will see you tomorrow. But then you can cue your hand contact, just like you cue a foot contact, to turn the radius. When the hand is fixed, it will not go into its internal rotation representation. If I capture hand cues with the support underneath the arch of the hand, you can still cue your internal rotations. We do that all the time in a low oblique set.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Man, already a very busy Monday. Got a day straight in today's Q&A. This is with Teya. This is actually a very short video with a lot of information in it in regards to identifying knee orientations. We talk about this a lot in regards to the femoral position potentially being an ER versus IR, tubular position being ER versus IR. And if we can identify these positions, number one, we might be able to produce a much more effective middle propulsive representation, which is actually protective of a lot of knee injuries. Because if we're trying to produce force with an ER representation of this knee, that is not a force producing position. And so a lot of bad things can result from this. And so this is a brief talk about how we use a heel to butt measurement to identify the knee position. So we talked about patella position. So if you've ever seen like the skyline x-ray views where there's a representation looks like the patella is the sun over the mountains, so to speak. You'll be able to identify the relative patella position and so we can actually do that with the heel to butt measurement as well. So we talk about that. A lot of it comes down to doing a lot of heel to butt measurements so we can identify whether we have an eccentrically oriented vastus medialis that allows the heel to reach the butt in the ER position or whether we have a true middle propulsive representation in these. So thank you, Taya. This is a really important video for a lot of people. If you'd like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com. Put 15-minute consultation in the subject line so you don't delete it. Please include your question in your email. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and we'll see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. Okay. Great weekend. Busy Monday coming up. Let's dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Manuel. Manuel had a question in recording an observation of watching people trying to lock weights out overhead and seeing the limitation in the ability to extend the elbow to straighten the arm. And so we talked through the reasoning as to why this may be and then this sort of expanded into, okay, what about the shoulder orientation? What about elbow orientation? What about hand orientation? And then what sequence of events do we need to execute to recover relative motions under these circumstances? So this unpacks a lot of information in a very short period of time. So it's going to be useful for a lot of people that are having questions about these elbow orientations and then how to address them. So thank you Manuel. Great question. If you'd like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com, askbillhartman at gmail.com. Put 15-minute consultation in the subject line so I don't delete it. Please include your question in the email. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, and I'll see you tomorrow.

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Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Quick housekeeping item. Applications for the Intensive 17 are still open but they will be closing this evening. So if you've been waiting or you've been thoughtfully filling out your responses, please do so in a timely manner because we're going to close this down this evening. We have to get started on the blind reads of the applications to select our eight people by, I believe, Friday. So we'll get that done for you. But again, please be timely with your applications. Digging into today's Q&A, this was Zach. Zach was on a coffee and coaches conference call last week and he actually brought a case to the call. And we actually have a representation of this where we're talking through someone's representation of where their center of gravity is based on a static standing representation. Does this give us all of our information that we need? Absolutely not. But it does provide us indications. It does provide us clues. And then we have to correlate these things with if we do table tasks or if we do dynamic movements. We want to make sure that we correlate that. But there's a lot of information that you can glean from someone's position in space. And so we kind of break that down. So this would be very useful for many of you who might be in an environment where you don't do table tests, and you have to rely on some visual representation. So thank you, Zach, for bringing this. If you'd like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to AskBillHartman at gmail.com. AskBillHartman at gmail.com. Please put '15-minute consultation' in the subject line so I don't delete it. Include your question in the email if you will. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday. Happy intensive week. Intensive starts this Thursday and we will see you tomorrow.

So when you say use it appropriately, the thing that we have to have in place is the context in which it's going to be applied. So if we were just talking about walking versus throwing a baseball, very similar in regards to the phases of propulsion, but how you would produce that might be different because of physical structure and because of how they're producing internal rotation. So when you say internal rotation, it's like, okay, is this relative motion at the hip, or is it a compensatory strategy to drive force into the ground to a greater degree, which I might use an anterior orientation, because that increases the amount of force that I can apply into the ground. So again, we have to be very contextual with this and progressive. So if you think about, so you just acquired, let's just say you acquired relative motion of internal rotation on the table.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Coming off a very solid weekend. Very busy day today. Digging straight into today's Q&A. This is with Taya. Taya had a question that comes up a lot when we're talking about elbows. This has to do with nerve issues, some mobility issues, some extensibility issues, but all of this comes down to position and then adaptations that may be associated with those positions. So whenever we're talking about something that's in the distal extremity, we always have to be concerned with our proximal orientations and we have to work our way out. So shoulder girdle matters, elbow orientation matters, wrist orientation, and of course the hand, especially with ulnar nerve, because she describes two different scenarios in regards to ulnar nerve symptoms, both of which can be determined in regards to the greatest influence as to where we'll see the most tension. And so we can use our neurodynamic test under these circumstances to help us identify where that may be. And then that can help us drive our decision making in regards to which orientation has the greatest influence. So thank you, Taya. Great question. Lots of information in this video for those of you that may be dealing with medial elbow symptoms, ulnar nerve symptoms, or even wrist symptoms. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com. Askbillhartman at gmail.com. Please put 15-minute consultation in the subject line so I don't delete it. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, and I'll see you tomorrow. Thank you.

I was watching your video on the cross connect yesterday. That's one of my resets, but I have both feet on the ground when I do it instead of one foot on the wall. You're doing the hook line. Can you explain the difference between those two and what's going on there?

I have a question about the seven components of force. The location of force. So the way that I've heard you describe it, if I'm not mistaken, we're usually talking about how force is distributed within the system. Are we mostly looking at it in terms of where the base of support is, or are we also thinking more globally in the body when we look at what the location is? And if so, could you elaborate on that a bit?

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, coming off a stellar weekend with recovery weekend had some company, really good time, and now we're ready to dig into a Monday. So let's go right into the Q&A for today. This is with Zach. Zach had a great question. He's working with a young athlete that is presenting very specifically with some interesting findings and your orientation in the pelvis, but a response in the foot. And so this is one of those things that gets misrepresented a lot because in the literature and clinically, a foot is identified as being pronated as the arch approaches the ground, which is fine if we can understand how we get there. And the thing we want to recognize is the fact that everything is a turn. And so a pronated foot often gets misrepresented as something that is occurring in the imaginary frontal plane when it's actually a twist through the foot. And so what we'll actually see is a turn through the tibia here, and then that's going to bring the arch down. But what we have in this case that we discussed with Zack is we actually have an ERD foot that's getting pushed downward into the ground. As the center of gravity passes forward, the arch is going to get closer to the ground. And so we don't have a relative motion at the subtalar joint that's producing this pronated appearance. And so it creates some confusion. So we talk Zack through this, we give him a little bit of strategy that you're probably going to want to pay attention to in regards to how to restore normal contacts to the bottom of that foot. So this is very, very useful for a lot of people. So thank you, Zach, for bringing this question. If you'd like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com, put 15-minute consultation in the subject line so I don't delete it. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Don't forget, put your question in the email as well. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, and I will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have NeuroCoffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Looking forward to a very busy Monday. First things, IFast University members, we have a Q&A today at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. So please join us for that. If you're not signed up for IFast University, you can go to ifastuniversity.com, get yourself signed up and join us today at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Okay, digging into this Q&A. This is with Ian. Ian's been thinking about the toe touch a lot. He's been seeing some things, not really sure what he's looking at. One of the things about the toe touch that we want to recognize is very much like our squatting behaviors. We have periods where we have an early propulsive representation. We have a middle propulsive representation. We have a late propulsive representation in each segment of the toe touch. And so we're going to have compensatory strategies that are going to become apparent in situations where someone cannot access those spaces. There will always be ER, there will always be IR. It's just how they're going to be demonstrated. And if we can understand the compensatory strategies, then we can identify where these limitations are. Don't have to throw people on the table. Don't have to do measurements as such. We can execute in the gym based on needs and based on our intentions. So thank you, Ian, for this question. If you'd like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to AskBillHartman at gmail.com. AskBillHartman at gmail.com. Put 15-minute consultation in the subject line. Don't forget to include your question in the email please. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and I'll see you tomorrow.

Applications for the Intensive 16 are closed. If you've been trying to apply, you've probably noticed this already. We hit our target for a total number of applications very, very quickly. So I had to close it down. Those of you that are still interested in applying, you'll have a chance probably in about a month. We've got to figure out those dates for April, but we'll let you know. If you would like to be notified first, you got to get on the email list, just go to any blog on billhardmanpt.com and at the end of the blog you can put your email in there and you will be notified first next time the applications are open for the intensive. Digging into today's Q&A. This is with Alec. Alec, that's a great question. I'd started off at discussing about the influence of arm bars and it turned into directions of force related to the phases of propulsion. So early is accepting the force, late is obviously producing force. And so we can distinguish the activities using those circumstances. We can build those into activities to emphasize a certain aspect of propulsion. So this is going to be a really good question for a lot of people that are trying to select activities to match the demands and needs of the circumstance. So thank you, Alec. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillharman at gmail.com, askbillharman at gmail.com, put 15-minute consultation in the subject line, and we will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, and I will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. A very busy Monday. First item is a little bit of housekeeping in regards to the intensive. I'm getting a lot of questions about the next intensive since this is the new year. Looks like it's going to be somewhere around the middle of March. Start planning that. I should have the date locked down actually this week, so I'll probably announce that. If you're interested in the Intensive, the first group that gets dibs on application is on my email list. So if you go to the end of any blog on billhartmanpt.com, billhartmanpt.com, go to the end of the blog there. There's a place where you can get signed up for that list, so you get first dibs. So again, Intensive, Summer, Middle March, probably announced this week. Okay, digging into today's Q&A. This is with Victor. We've talked to Victor before. Victor's chiropractor and he's running into a couple of presentations that are very, very similar. Patients with a very flat appearance to the upper back, always complaining about lower cervical, lower neck issues. This tends to be a situation where we have a limitation in the dorsal rostral area. So if you look at Alfred here, it's going to be this area between the scapula. Upper DR is going to be here and that's going to affect the lower cervical spine position quite a bit. The compression is going to take away your rotations because you basically eliminated any gradient that is available to allow those turns to take place and so we talk about a treatment sequence actually that he can utilize to actually restore that gradient and then be able to apply his his typical manual therapies that he would do as a chiropractor so this is very useful discussion for those of you that are questioning like, okay, what is the sequence of events that we're using to resolve these issues? This would be a very, very good one. If you'd like to participate in a 15 minute consultation, just like Victor, please go to askbillhartman and gmail.com, askbillhartman and gmail.com. Please put 15 minute consultation in the subject line so I don't delete it. and we will raise that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and I will see you tomorrow. Clock has started. We are rolling.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. A very busy Monday. We're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Ivan. It starts off as a pretty typical Q&A, where we talk about neutral position, connectivity, behavior, split squat, compensatory strategies. So that's interesting. But I think the big takeaway here is to recognize the fact that performance is multifactorial in nature. And so when I talk about performance, we're talking about generalized movement all the way up through our highest levels of athletic performance. I think that especially in our industry with a low barrier to entry, I think people get told stories or they tell themselves stories, and this creates a system of limited beliefs and therefore the outcomes become restricted. This is why you have sort of like the turf areas such as the people that say kettlebell is the best activity or the best tool, or Olympic weightlifting is the best way to train athletes, and we have these sects that still exist. When the reality is, we want to think a little more like a mixed martial artist where we say, hey, I just need the best tool for the job in this circumstance. If we can get over these limited beliefs and we can start to recognize the multifactorial nature and we start to expand the lenses through which we are looking at things, I think we're going to do a whole lot better. And so I think that's the big takeaway from today's Q&A is it's time to start expanding your lenses. It's time to start attacking those limited beliefs and become better at what we do. So hopefully you will recognize that in today's Q&A. Thank you, Ivan. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman.gmail.com. We will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and I will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, a very busy Monday. Quick housekeeping item: iFAST university members, we have a call at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today. If you are not a member of iFAST university, please go to ifastuniversity.com to get yourself signed up so you can join us on that call at 1 p.m. Eastern time. iFAST university. Digging straight into today's Q&A, this is with Temus. Temus had a question in regards to having some difficulty making some changes in a narrow ISA individual, but this deviated off into some connective tissue behavior discussion and then talking about adaptive potential. When we talk about the principles upon which my model is based, one of those principles is adaptive potential, and we have to take this into consideration. So this is their structure, which could be genetically determined, influenced by behaviors and training, or be age-related changes and such. And so we have to take into consideration what the adaptive potential is for this individual because it's going to help us determine our strategies, how long things might take, and what adaptations we might be chasing and so on and so forth. So this is a great question from Temus. Thank you very much. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman@gmail.com. Please put '15 minute consultation' in the subject line so I don't delete it. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and I'll see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Already a very busy Monday. Let's dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Taya. Taya had a great foundational question. She was having difficulty visualizing the anti-orientation in a narrow ISA individual. This gives us an opportunity to review a little bit about narrow ISAs. And so we're starting with the narrow ISA archetype. So this is going to be somebody that has an axial skeleton that is biased towards an inhalation representation under these circumstances. Then to create the exhalation, we have to close the ISA and then move the diaphragm into an exhale representation. So this is a compensatory exhalation against the inhalation representation in the axial skeleton. In doing so, we create an expansive strategy in the anterior aspect of the axial skeleton. This is going to shift the center of gravity forward, and then what we're going to see then is the first superficial compensatory strategy layered on top of this, which is going to compress anteriorly. So this is where we're going to see a down pump handle, and we're going to see compression on the pubis. So this is how we initiate our discussion with TEA to show how this anti-orientation exists. Then we have the other superficial compressive strategies that get layered on, and now we have an anti-orientation that is created under those circumstances. So TEA, great question. We do show the representation in the video. It's a very short video today, which will save you a lot of time, but it's a very important video for a lot of people. So again, thank you TEA. If you would like to participate in a 15 minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com, askbillhartman at gmail.com, put 15 minute consultation in the subject line so I don't delete it. We will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and I will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. Coming off a strong weekend, a little bit of housekeeping. IFAST members, we have a call at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today, so please join us for that. If you are not an IFASTuniversity.com member, please go to IFASTuniversity.com. Get yourself signed up. Join us at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. These are awesome calls. A lot of good stuff going on there. Digging into today's Q&A, this is with Taya. Taya had what she thought was a very simple foundational question in regards to knee varus and valgus. I don't like to use those terms too much because they imply that the frontal plane exists and I think as we all know by now it does not. These are not straight plane problems. These are orientations in rotation and so we always remember that we're going to end up starting with some form of rotation. It's typically going to be femur turning inward relative to the tibia. That's how all of this is going to get initiated and then it's just progress from there. So keep that in mind as you go through this Q&A today. We're going to talk a little bit about how this evolves and a little bit about solutions, and I think it's going to be helpful for a lot of people because again, there's still a lot of confusion in regards to this knee presentation. So thank you, Taya. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com, put '15 minute consultation' in the subject line so I don't delete it. We will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and I'll see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. Okay. Coming off a pretty solid weekend. Better than expected actually, so that's kind of cool. But let's dig straight into today's Q&A. This is going to be a little something different. We're not going to talk about training per se, but we're going to talk about self-regulation. So I had a conversation with Angkor and we've talked to him before about some training things, but he brought up some really interesting questions. And we touched on this kind of stuff a little bit in the intensive in regards to energy management and productivity, how to get things done. And Ankor came at me with some really good questions. We had a fun time. We actually went over a little bit on the 15 minute console because we were just laughing and having a good time and enjoying each other. And so I hope you guys enjoy this too. Find it productive. Maybe there's a nugget in there that will be useful for you on how to prioritize things and again, how to manage and regulate yourself. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartmanedgemail.com, askbillhartmanedgemail.com, put 15-minute consultation in the subject line so we don't delete it. We will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday. Don't forget to go to the YouTube channel and get subscribed there, and I'll see you tomorrow. All right. Timer has started. What is your questioning course?

There's a sweet spot where stuff is beneficial and then outside of that it's not. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. I think I'm fully recovered from the Thanksgiving holiday, so looking forward to a big week. Quick housekeeping item, getting a lot of foundational questions at theaskavilleheartman at gmail.com email. I truly appreciate that. However, a lot of these questions have already been answered and they are up on the YouTube channel. So if you have not been to the YouTube channel, please go there. That's where all these videos end up anyway. And so chances are, if you've got a question that's already been answered, go there. If you're not subscribed to the YouTube channel, then please do so so you can get notified when the new stuff goes up. All right. Digging into today's Q&A, this is with Manuel. Manuel is actually a recent attendee of the Intensive. And we're working on some squat issues, especially this front squat, where we're actually improving his ability to expand into your posterior and showing him how it influenced the outcome in his technique which it didn't improve and so Manuel came back on the recent coffee and coaches conference call with a question about well can we do this with another activity and the answer is yes but we have to be concerned with the influences and then to produce the outcome. So for instance, what we're actually going to end up talking about here is the seven components of force, the seven components of force right over here, magnitude, location, direction, duration, frequency, variability, and rate. Each one of those has an influence on how we will behave in response to an activity. So let me give you a for instance. So we talk about suitcase carries influencing our ability to recapture relative motions. However, if we increase the magnitude of the load, so the amount of load increases to such a degree that it actually starts to compress the space around us. We've actually reduced the space where we can capture relative motion. So that may not be the desired outcome under those circumstances. So we always have to consider how these these seven components of force influence each element of the outcome. So we can't just say that a squat does this or a suitcase carry does this or a press does this. We have to consider the context. And so that's what this discussion is about. I hope it's going to be useful for a lot of people. Remember, go to the YouTube channel and subscribe so you get all these videos and get your foundational questions answered. I will see you all tomorrow.

Dan's always been kind of quiet on the coffee and coaches conference call. He's been on a few times and then asked a killer question when he did open up a little bit this past week and asked a great question for your foundational question in regards to why everything is an ER or an IR and how do we even get rid of these straight planes that were so ingrained in us in school. And what we have to recognize is that all joints move on helical angles, and therefore, if they're all helical, they are all ERs and IRs. And this is the tough part to understand, but once you can get rid of those straight planes, a lot of solutions arise that you would have ignored previously.

So what we don't want to do is turn people like a refrigerator when we're trying to reestablish movement. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. This is going to be a busy week. The intense 14 starts this week. It's actually on Thursday. So I'm looking forward to that. So let's dig right into today's Q&A. This is with Charlie. Charlie's fairly new. I saw him sneaking in on one of the coffee and coaches kind of what's called last week. So he's had a few exposures and he's figuring some stuff out on his own, which is great. But he asked some really good foundational questions in this Q&A that I think a lot of people are going to benefit from. We touched on foundational archetypes. We touched on rate oblique orientation, dirty measures on the table. So we talked a little about that, about how these things can change using the table as your constraint and point of reference. So very important call probably for a lot of people. I think you'll benefit. If you'd like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com, askbillhartman at gmail.com, put 15-minute consultation in the subject line, and please include your question in the email. And we will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, happy intensive week, and I'll see you tomorrow. All right, Charlie, we got the video rolling. The clock has started. What is your question?