All right. I do need to run to the next call.

I really felt bothered by you in that moment though. Thank you.

So the narrow can get into the squat better, but the wide can actually come out of the squat better.

Yeah. So, when you measure hip ER, where do you think that's coming from?

So again, from an activity standpoint, you might need to move yourself straight back first. You want to think about, you've seen the stuff where I talk about the expansion on the backside of the body. The upper back, the dorsal rostral expansion, the posterior lower expansion, moving the sacrum into its counter-neutated position is an early propulsive representation. If you go back through my videos that talk about early propulsion and capturing those positions, those are going to be the activities that you're going to want to emphasize first. Then you're going to go with right side leading activities. This will be your right foot forward split squats and the cable activities where the right arm is going forward. Those types of activities are what you're going to want to emphasize.

They don't have the shape change.

Yeah, and that's the orientation that you talk about, right?

Yeah.

I'm great, fire away.

Speaking of arrogance, I have a question regarding suppose this is gradient model of yours. So how do you differentiate between self confidence and ego? Is there is it in spectrum and overlapping? How do you okay?

So another solution is when somebody throws the ball to you, you catch it and then release. Can you capture a yielding strategy, or are you really tensing up? Is it more of an internal rotation strategy?

Right and so often in the fitness industry now there are these these hard

Yeah.

See, if you can understand that, then everything starts to fall into place, and you've heard me say the word coherent, probably a gazillion times on videos and in discussions and stuff like that. It's like we have to have this coherence. It's like the minute we start to have levers, bad things really happen, the amount of heat that is produced that's associated with that would be so destructive to tissues. And I get to speak from experience here because I have bionic hips, right? I paid the price for having a lever, right?

I sometimes think that because I'm a PT as well, and sometimes I think that some of the manual therapies and things like that that we're doing during the day can bleed into not being able to acquire that. So that creates an element of interference as well. It's kind of like that day to day sort of.

Stop pushing forward.

It is. It is. Does that help you, young man?

There you go. Now, so here's the question that we have to have first and foremost. Do they even have the capacity to assume that shape? That's the first question, right?

Yes.

Within being able to, since he's younger, he can't drive yet within, you know, probably a half hour drive at most.

We want to start talking about solutions. What we want to start to think about is that we always have a directional preference. So one of your comments is: does the model already account for this in some way? Absolutely it does, because it doesn't have to revolve around pain. As far as our directional preference, we always have one based on our structure, our orientation, and any compensatory strategies that we may apply. So that's exactly what you're looking at. What you're looking at, though, is the response. In this situation, when we're talking about a disc injury, we're talking about where the yielding strategy is applying. So number one: don't do stuff that hurt. Okay? That's kind of like the obvious. And then, second, treat the human. So we want to use our measures that we would typically use to identify what their true preferences are based on their structure, their orientation, and, like I said, any compensatory strategies. Most likely, what you're going to have to do depending on which side that you're dealing with is you're going to have to restore the normal early propulsive strategies. Now, let me give you a simple rule of thumb. If you're dealing with a left-sided issue, you're probably going to have a pelvis that is oriented forward and it's going to be driven more on the left than it is on the right. We're going to see this later propulsive strategy on the left driving forward. If we have symptoms on the right, typically what we're going to have, we're going to have an anti-orientation of the pelvis, but it's going to be tipped on the oblique axis. So right away, now we have some resources to deal with. Number one, I would go look at the video they did about a week ago where I was talking about hip flexion and propulsion, so you understand the early and late propulsive strategies from the ground up. So we talked about the foot and we talked about the pelvis there. Secondly, what I would do is I go through all the videos that are talking about restoring hip ranges of motion and especially the ones that discuss the propulsive phases. And so this is heels elevated stuff for the early propulsive strategies and the lack of that. So Zach, this is a great question. To wrap it up into a nutshell, a herniated disc is most likely, based on my model and my understanding—and I'm willing to be wrong here, so keep that in mind—most likely an early propulsive problem. So you're using the disc as the yielding strategy in early propulsion rather than distributing it through the system from the foot, through the extremity, through the pelvis, through the thorax, through the cervical spine, and even through the cranium. So having a distributed yield, now we have a focal yield, and the disc is unfortunately taking the load for us here. So I hope that answers your question.

It could be internal rotation.

What's the problem that you're trying to prevent?

So if I just squeeze things, so everything is high pressure all around, there is no gradient. If there's no gradient, there's no movement. And so when people present with these compressive strategies that actually limit their ability to move their extremities, reinforcing that with heavy bilateral strength training is usually not the solution when you're trying to restore movement capabilities. So rather than driving barbell-based activities, bilateral symmetrical high force activities what we want to start to do then if we want to use any sort of pulling or pushing activities as we start to use the unilateral pressing unilateral pulling concepts and I got a bunch of videos on those on the YouTube but it doesn't take a whole lot of thought process here what we're going to try to do when we're emphasizing movement is one we have to think about graded exposures so the greater the force output, the stronger the compressive stress is going to need to be, even if I am unilateral. So I'm going to start with a much lower level of activity that I can breathe through that's going to allow me to access motion. And so we start very, very simply with a single arm overhead press, a single arm pull down, but we're not going to use maximum load. We're going to emphasize movement capabilities and we're going to utilize breath. Then the goal is to increase the force output and be able to maintain movement capabilities through those ranges of motion while I can still create the pressure gradient. Some people will have genetic limitations just based on their physical structure as to how much of this they can actually produce, which is why you'll see all sorts of really cool stuff in gymnastics because those are people that can really manage gradients under high-force strategies. So again, Thomas, the thing that you got to start to recognize is how can I move? Let's give credit to the kettlebell culture on this one too, by the way. A lot of their activities the unilateral activities are great for re-establishing these gradients, but they tend to be the ground-based stuff like the get-ups, and the arm bars, and one-arm presses, and then doing things in half kneeling, split stance, et cetera, et cetera. Kettlebell swings, on the other hand, especially if they are bilateral are restrictive so let's not let's not say that all kettlebell things are supportive of our goal okay so again we we always have to think about the same strategy we're trying to create gradients and so so always emphasize that when you're trying to recapture eccentric orientation and ranges of motion.

You know what? That reminds me of years ago. You probably remember this. Rob Barber was a baseball coach, and his son was trying to get his elbow up, but he biomechanically couldn't get there. So you work a little bit of magic and all of a sudden he can do it. I still have the before and after. It's such a massive impact because he was giving the right cues, trying to do the right things, but the child couldn't execute because he didn't have the physical capacity. It just makes a great coach even better.

I'll send them to you.

Okay. So it's not pushing into the ground. What's producing the IR then?

So how are they?

I would hazard a guess that he was pushing his toes into the ground under that circumstance. Because you're just trying to maintain the stiffest foot possible. What you're doing is you're releasing enough muscle activity that you have to store at least energy in the connective tissues under that circumstance, under massive loads—higher loads. The amount of tension you're going to release is going to be reduced; otherwise you're going to accelerate towards the ground, which is probably what you didn't want to do. Especially in Dale's world, which I'm assuming, Dale, you didn't do too many rock bottom dynamic effort squats in your day. No, no. It's not like dropping down into a catch at the bottom or something like that, where you would release a heck of a lot of that muscle activity to get down there.

Yeah, it would be gilding.