Maybe. Okay. So it's not that simple to go, oh, go right foot then left foot. Because then everybody would go right foot and left foot and everything would be solved, right? It matters how you cue it.

Okay. So it stands to reason then if I use a late reach, I would get more anterior expansion to allow that IR to be demonstrated, right? Okay. And if I use an early reach, more posterior delay—it's a delay, right? It's still an ER representation. And that would be ER with the superimposition of early IR on it.

You understand that, right?

Yeah.

Go ahead, Buzz.

And again, it's not hiding. It's in the literature. You can see all this. You just have to put the pieces together and actually see it for what it is. I should just blast that all over the internet because that's—you know—okay, but see, and then people will say, 'But look at all the range of motion that I gave!' It's okay. You think you're performing a stretch for a muscle. Guess who created the concept of muscles? Humans did. That's like saying we're made of stuff, but we're the ones that gave it a name. So you say, 'I'm stretching a quadriceps. I'm stretching a calf. I'm stretching a hamstring. I'm stretching a pec.' The reality is that you're promoting a shape change that may actually be favorable in the end, but the actual muscle that you're yanking on is not where you're going to make the change. You're going to make the change in some other way, shape, or form—I'm making a pun there, 'shape or form.' You're going to make a shape change that's going to allow you to access ranges of motion. What you should notice, though, is that as you achieve that range of motion, there will be no sensation of stretching. That would be an eccentrically oriented muscle, and then you actually made the appropriate shape change. You actually expanded the muscle. You reduced the internal pressure in that muscle itself, allowed it to expand, and allowed you to access that range of motion with no tension at all. Which is why, when you do make a favorable shape change, that's why the motion feels easy and effortless. If you're yanking and pulling on things and you're expecting that muscle to change, good luck—it's not going to happen.

So you might need to.

Awesome. Cool.

Okay. So like just let's say having someone on their back, if they have enough hip flexion pointing at the floor and kind of going in, like bringing the big toe towards midline, that would be kind of initiated at the foot first. And then getting out of that, that would be proximal, external rotation of the hip.

Gotcha. You see it? Interesting. Yeah, that was how I was seeing it before.

Absolutely.

The advantages of the bendy tables. Yes. Got it. Absolutely. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. That's cool.

OK. Okay.

Yeah, that's really the heart of my question there too, because I also have another kid that's kind of like, I guess you could say on the other end of the spectrum. For example, if they're doing a reaching to cone single leg deadlift single leg RDL, and I see one kid is like, his pelvis wants to roll backwards, like he's going to do at the bottom of a squat or something. And then this other kid, it's like, hyperextended lumbar spine. And I'm looking, I'm thinking, both kids run about the same, you know, flying 10 time. They're both eighth graders. They both play similar sports. And I'm like, that's really interesting, just to kind of see those structures.

It's okay. I think Ian knows what I want to do, don't you? Box squat, yeah. So you put her on a high box squat. Okay. So you put her on a high box squat. She loads onto the box. That's going to get you a yielding action. You start her in a high box squat above that middle representation because chances are the middle is going to be the hardest part for her to capture, isn't it?

So this is a really good discussion with Paul. Paul brought up a great question, very simple question, but again, very, very useful. I tacked on a little video to the end, one of the simple solution videos in regards to those folks that do apply force into the ground through their hand and they get that little wrist pain on the back. And so there's a little solution there for you tagged at the end.

All right. All right. Makes sense. Yeah. Perfect.

All right, awesome. We're working with a 400-meter hurdler who is very good at what he does and has been doing it for a long time. He has a big anterior tilt and some loss of something, but he still performs very well. The biggest problem I have is when he goes to the gym and we do bilateral symmetrical exercises like squatting, his lower back tightens up for about two or three days. In my view, it's like, well, he has indoor competitions coming in December or January, and I don't want to waste time coaching a squat or some type of lift just to get him to orient his abdomen correctly and make sure he doesn't overdo it. So I was thinking, well, the same question as Manuel: Can I just remove the bilateral symmetrical exercises and leave him with things like step-ups and lunges and other unilateral, single-leg exercises? I don't think that at his level I would need to put too much volume on him with bilateral symmetrical exercises, but I don't know what you think about that.

They do have to be able to absorb some force, but generally speaking, if they turn easily, they don't really have a job because that makes them turn like a door. The last thing you want to do is have your left tackle and a right-handed quarterback get turned and then your quarterback's counting clouds in the sky. Yeah. And then wondering why his back hurts. So you got to be careful with that. But I mean, there's certainly an element of that. But from a priority standpoint, from a positioning standpoint, when we're talking about the performance aspect of things, the turn is not the highest of priorities.

Got it. Okay.

So what direction do I need to move the pelvis to bring the ischial tuberosity back behind the femur?

Yeah.

Yeah. Cause that's, that's your early representation. That slows the left side down so that you do translate the energy up into the ball.

Yeah. So how much extensibility does a ligament have before it breaks? Not too much. It's really small. It's like 6% to 8% of its length or something. It's really small. But it does have some. But what if I can't distribute that force over a long enough or a large enough area, and I get a focal load on one small area of ligament that has to absorb all of that force? What happens?

Yeah, I think it's a better solution because, again, you're trying to stay as close to that middle representation as possible. And the rack would move you away from that by creating that delay.

So I'll just pull it down to the big picture and let you take it from there. I think that I understand to some degree looking at gate through the foot primarily based on the fact that, you know, if the tibia is behind the ankle, then you're kind of in early and it advances from there. When the heel leaves the ground and the tibia is forward, then you're moving into late propulsion, and somewhere in between there is mid propulsion. No. Great. Good place to start.

Oh, Nikki, you don't want to go there.

Absolutely not. I was on a roll, dude. You interrupted my train. No, go ahead. Of course you can.

And apart from this, the second athlete who has limited bilateral ER. Yes, sir. And he has a straight leg raise of 90 degrees. So what would be your lowest timing for what would you do with him first?