Yeah, of course. I probably have watched almost all of your videos anyway.

So, you know, there's only so many, there's only so many strategies that are available within the constraints of a human being. Within those constraints, there will be subtle differences that would be associated. I could show you 14 different representations of the pelvis. And each one will follow the same path just to varying degrees. Because again, if I don't have anterior-posterior space, I can only go forward so far before I hit the end constraint. Whereas if I have a much longer distance, then this is why you see differences in feet. It's like, why do some people drop the IR into their rear foot? Why do some people drop it straight through the subtalar joint? Why do some people drop it right in front of the ankle? Why do some people drop it in the first metatarsal-phalangeal joint? It's because the structures above that determine how far and how fast they can go forward or will go forward. So there's differences, individual differences that determine how quickly things happen. And then that determines where we would see the adaptive behavior.

So when they're awake and conscious, that's where you solve the problem. When they're asleep, you might have to give them an orthotic, which is the pillow position. Some people need an appliance to hold their jaw in a position. That will continue to keep the airway open and the muscle activity reduced. So maybe you need some help. Maybe they got to go to the dentist and they got to get a splint for nighttime so that the jaw position is being maintained in some way, shape or form. Some people use forced air. They push air down their throat all night. We don't want to have to do that. We don't want to have to do that. So you spend more time during the conscious hours trying to resolve the limited number of options. You're trying to restore options so that when they do go to sleep, they're not limited in options. You can only accommodate nighttime so much, cause it makes people miserable. It's like the posture thing that we talked about earlier in the call. It's like trying to tell people like they come in and they think they understand what good posture is. And it's like, I do this, I do this, I do this. That's like, now I have good posture. It's like, well, but you can't move. Because they've been chasing these so-called perfect positions. It's like nighttime, we don't want to turn nighttime into that. What we want to do is make sure they have options before they go to bed. I want to make sure you have options before you exercise.

Or.

So I had a wide ISA patient yesterday who I was trying to do like a left-right cable chop with their right foot in front of them to the inside heel. Left to right cable chop.

So I love that thought, but if you say plyo step to somebody, and there's no step and the movement is really, really small that you can almost not see it, right? But you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. What you got to do is think about this for a second: the guts have to drop because you're in sort of this middle representation in a dress. And there's technically no differential—there's a little bit of differential just because of the grip of the club and such. But if you think about, when I bring the club back to impact, it's going to be a really strong middle representation. So you have to drop the guts to create a differential. And what you'll notice is, and you might hear it, is that you'll hear it—like when they first take the club away, listen to them breathe: there's a breath hold and a release as they break the club away from the ball. Take your address. Do your waggle—everybody's got a waggle, right?

So hold the catch so that the energy is dissipated. That prolongs the yield. So if you catch and immediately come back up, the idea there is to try to keep the tissues stiff. Okay. What you would do then is over time, so this is how you alter the time constraint in a favorable way to get them back to the shorter ground contact time. You start with the clean and catch and hold and then you slowly reduce the amount of time between the catch and the recovery.

Yes, absolutely. Put him on his right side to start because it's going to tune down all of the muscle activity that's shoving him forward on the left side.

It depends on how fast.

OK. I need another thing. Yeah.

You get it?

Okay.

New tape.

And pretty much she executes everything as far as even excluding her javelin throwing, just moving around the gym. Everything is done with that braced spine. And she obviously achieves a throwing position relying on that quite a bit as well as we can sort of see.

Yeah, I guess I was just picturing, like without actual true translation of the skeleton through space, like I'm just having movement that wasn't necessarily that, but that was misguided.

I'll come in in that direction. Not having seen this guy, I don't know, but again, that's what you're describing. They need to call things in the literature. And then, it's a human desire to have a reason behind something so we can call something a T4. That's fine. I don't care if they call it that. But what they're doing is they're just recognizing that this aspect of the system does not move like it should. So if you can assist him in any way to get that area to expand and restore the relative motions, that would be a pretty solid intention.

And how do we describe it?

Yes, you're moving in that direction. Yeah, you're moving in that direction. There's no load on the leg yet. So the expansion has to occur in the direction that you're going to place the foot.

Okay. And so the late representation of the elbow. So if you were in a high oblique sit, so you're supported on your hand and the elbow is in its late representation. That would be the screw-home representation of the elbow.

Okay, dead guys do. My point is, what is the frame of reference of your model? If you're using a dead human being as your representative model, then a lot of that stuff is on the table as far as planes, points in space, levers, like all of those things come back into play in that context. But if that's your context for a dynamically moving human being, now you have imposed limitations on your process because it doesn't work that way. Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Well, today is Wednesday. That means tomorrow it's Thursday. That means tomorrow 6 a.m. Coffee and Coaches Conference call as usual. Grab yourself a cup of coffee. Please join us for some great people, great Q&A, and a great way to start Thursday. Okay, digging into today's Q&As with Manuel. Manuel's question started off as a squat related question in regards to archetype, but it led us into some deeper principles in regards to movement. So we have to consider physical structure so archetype comes into play. So when I constructed the wide and narrow archetypes, I was giving you a framework to work from that allows you to understand how people may be able to move through space and execute certain activities. This also lends us to the fact that now we have to make better training decisions in that regard. So sometimes we have to adapt the exercise to the individual as the individual will not be able to adapt to the exercise. Sometimes you can change muscle orientation and gain access to positions and movement and sometimes you have to change your coaching cues. And so again these are very useful principles to understand. So we have to understand structure and load and muscle orientation and performance demands to allow us to make the best possible decisions. So again, Manuel, great question. Thank you so much. Everybody have an outstanding Wednesday. I will see you tomorrow morning, 6 a.m. Coffee and Coaches Conference call.

Yeah, so you're making it more focal to the foot in that situation, and the lower leg.

Pretty cool when you think about it that way though. Are we good? Yeah. Thanks. Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Today is Wednesday. That means tomorrow is Thursday. That means tomorrow morning, 6 a.m. As usual, coffee and coaches conference call. Join us for some great Q&A. Grab yourself a cup of coffee. Great way to start off your Thursday morning. So please join us for that. Dinking into today's Q&A, this is another segment with my conversation with Pat Davidson on his podcast. Probably a really good one for the young coach to listen to. This has a lot to do with how we work in this mentorship apprenticeship model successfully to teach us how to deal with uncertainty, managing our failures and such. You are going to face this. You might as well do it in a very safe to fail environment. And so again, a very useful conversation for a lot of young coaches. So again, thank you, Pat. I'm not sure when the full conversation is going to be up. That's up to Pat, but so keep an eye on that. If you're interested in hearing the whole thing, we had a great time. It was very fun. So I think everybody will enjoy it. Have an outstanding Wednesday. I will see you tomorrow morning, 6 a.m. Coffee and Coaches Conference Call.

Okay. So, you okay. Um, magnitude's going to do what to space? It'll shrink the space. Okay. So you reduce the weight. So number one, you just gave him more space. That's useful in increasing the representation of ER. If it's an early ER, then I have a yield, which is great. And so then you have to make the decision as to whether you're accessing that in regards to the connective tissue behaviors. What also is affected by a reduction, potentially affected by a reduction in magnitude? In addition to just affecting the space available? Yes. What would be the connective tissue behavior?

So that's the difference between the two. But as far as changing the muscle orientation, that is movement. But again, that's determined by what strategies you're using. So if you're, as you said, you're pushed forward, which means you've got a lot of posterior concentric muscle orientation that creates that compression that pushes you forward. You need to be put into a position where that strategy is not required. So you have to change the orientation of gravity. So instead of standing up, maybe you have to do something on the ground. So those muscles don't have to control those forces that you're unintentionally trying to control, right? So you take gravity out of the equation and then that might allow you to move more freely because you don't need those muscles to remain as active. That's why we change positions. That's why we might do something where we do an arm bar laying on the ground because it takes gravity out of the equation. It allows us to access movements that we may not be able to access when we stand up. Then we progressively make those activities more difficult and then that arm bar becomes top speed sprinting.

You look down between your feet and there's a green dot on the floor. So your feet make a square. You understand? Okay. That green dot is your center of gravity. And so every time you take a step that green dot is going to have to move with you. And then where you place the load is going to control how far and how fast that dot moves into different directions. So under normal circumstances, your center of gravity moves like an S curve on the ground. Like if you were to shoot a beam of light straight down at the ground, that beam would form an S curve as you walk. But if you put a load in there, that S curve is going to start to change shape. You're going to get a delay on one side and you're going to get almost a horizontal representation of internal and external rotation. So it's going to sort of create a limping S curve. But that's what you want under the circumstance because you're trying to promote a certain shape and a certain muscular behavior. You follow? The way that green dot moves tells you the response to the position and to the load. But this is also why you have to get the magnitude of load correct because too much weight and you're going to stick yourself way over on one side and you're never going to capture the element that you want. So if I give you a strongman style suitcase carry, they're not concerned about capturing internal and external rotations. They're concerned about the most load that they can carry. But when you put it in one hand, you see the person lean over and then they'll even throw the other arm up as a counterbalance. The load is literally dragging along the outside of their leg because it's so heavy and they can't shift their center of gravity away. You've created a massive downforce into that leg and then the other foot becomes very light on the ground. That's the exact opposite of what we're talking about because the magnitude of load took them outside of their base of support. They have to create a counter position that gives them enough counterweight to offset that load. You see it?

Yeah. And down and forward. You had great heel contact. You had all of your foot cues. You had pelvic cues on the table. You had a thorax that was doing exactly what you wanted it to do. You stood it up and her perception is like, 'I got to go forward. I'm upright.' And then boom, everything went down and forward. That immediately changes the muscle activity. That's why you want to make sure when you're transitioning somebody from a lower gravity situation to a more challenging upright situation, that's why the low propulsion test exists—so I can see what happens when they stand up.

It's going to change to overcoming.

Okay, but it's the beginning of the internal rotation, right? So internal rotation is the beginning of force application. Force application is going to increase the degree of compression, which is going to reduce the degree of relative motion. So we know that. The positions that you are going to emphasize under those circumstances cannot be the highest force producing positions.

Correct. Correct. OK.

Yeah.