So we use delay strategy to change the connective tissue's behavior, making it yielding. And we use shape change or movement position change to change the muscles' orientation.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Down and forward.

Yes. So it's going to gradually change towards an overcoming representation, isn't it? Okay. All right. But again, it's a gradient. You got to see it. You got to see it as it's changing. Okay. I move my center of gravity up over my foot. I got to start increasing the amount of pressure down into the ground. Okay. So that's a higher pressure representation. So I'm going to move. So eccentric got me there, but now I got to start pushing down into the ground. And I got to capture the IR position of the pelvis. I got to capture more IR going down into the ground as my body passes over it. What will happen to the muscular orientation of the anterior outlet on that side?

Yeah, I get that. I'm not going to get relative motion with a trade-off max deal.

Okay. But so when you would put [it] under the ischium more for a wide than an arrow?

And again, tremendously helpful under most circumstances, especially for a human such as yourself that has lifted heavy things for a really long time because you've created adaptations in your connective tissues to make them stiff. There's a benefit to lifting heavy things with stiffer connective tissues because they're harder to deform, they store more energy, and release more energy per unit of deformation. So again, to lift heavy things, that's a good thing. After a while, it can become interference. You've created a position and, like I said, a shape that allows you to demonstrate internal rotation. You've created a more effective connective tissue behavior that you needed under that circumstance to store and release energy versus something that's stiff that actually was interference, okay? And that did not allow you to efficiently store and release energy.

Right. Yeah. To regain it. Yep. Longer same lines.

Okay.

I have a quick question about a bias towards an inhalation strategy. When you say someone is biased towards a strategy, does that mean they can't move further into that direction? For example, if somebody was biased towards inhalation, they actually can't inhale further because they've already essentially used a part of their inhalation, or they're in the opposite direction and have a huge ability to exhale.

Definitely.

Well, I think of it more as the dominant bones movie.

Lines are good. OK. So to improve, you've got to have more access to the internal rotation to pass through that range, right? So like I said, it sounds like you're on the right track.

Delay that thing before you would do anything to come back on their helical angle is to get that foot on.

Understanding that. That's why the chessboard becomes important because the chessboard shows you the relationships as to why you got that measure based on traditional techniques of measuring. I don't think you have the distributed measure of internal rotation at the hip joint. I think you got a big measure, but guess what moved to get there? You see it? It's like, you gotta be really careful with that because you make the assumption, oh, I don't need to worry about that measure at all. It's normal.

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Just because the bar travels less. Let's put it that way.

All right, because I try to see it yield on one side and overcome on the other.

Oops. And then what happens with the narrow ISA that went forward on the left and then to the right?

Again, this is one of the reasons why people get confused about early, middle and late representations because they're looking at the extremities and thinking, 'When I put the arm in this position, if I'm crawling, right?'

So I usually, after the calls or after I get some ideas, I've been experimenting by just giving the activities and then seeing how different people self-organize with the activity. So one of the activities was the lateral sled drag. With the intent of promoting differential movement or starting a gradient side to side, I saw a couple of different things. One was a knee bend, like a deep knee bend when moving from the handles on the right side, you're moving from right to left, so you're pushing with the right leg. You're pushing to the right.

What's the thorax.

Yes.

The need for space is different between a front squat and an overhead press. You understand that, so I just wanted to say it out loud. You have to consider the spaces that create the greatest interference under the circumstances. If I have somebody with a posterior lower compressive strategy that's interfering with the ability to access arm elevation to shoulder level, I cannot do either press or front squat without compensatory strategies. Therefore, I need to address that space first because it becomes the first level of interference when trying to move the arm through space. If I didn't have that compressive strategy, I shouldn't have trouble getting the arm into that space, at least for initial elevation. Then I have to worry about sternal compressive strategies that could interfere with end range positions like a front squat. So, where I need to put the arm in space tells me where I need to address compensatory strategies, but in a sequence from the bottom up. For upright activities, your lungs fill from the bottom up.

I know that's what, that's what I'm struggling to conceptualize this because I understand the top-down, proximal-distal how the calcaneus is ER, but the whole foot is IRing.

And it really does depend on your joint position and then the load because I was giving a friend a left foot in front split squat with a lateral load in the left hand. So I was thinking we might gain some relative motion, but when I saw him do it, it didn't look great. And I thought, wait, that doesn't make sense. So you really need to understand and play around. It takes time to know your patient and clientele to figure out the right load, and if there is necessarily load to create, that's where the stuff comes in.

Yeah.

That's exactly right. You know how we always talk about space moving away from the middle, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So that's why they have to orient. So now they don't have the segmental relative motions available to them. So they have to move their extremities outward to find a space that they can actually move in. So these are the people that have to, like when they squat, they have to move their feet really far apart or they have to toe out because that's the only space that they have available for them to move into.

Now, what makes you say whether you like, I guess up until now I've just thought like, okay, measures or watching someone move, like this is where the site of compression is. And if I want to get expansion there, I need to yield in that location, but I haven't really been trying to think about the specific tissue that I'm trying to get to yield. So now how are we starting to tease out like, do I want the actual skeleton to yield? Do I want the muscle? Like how do you start to figure out which yield you're trying to get?

As soon as you capture a better position, you should have better force producing capabilities with less tension on the inguinal ligament. Now, don't forget the bottom up representations from the ground to the pelvis, because we've just talked about pelvic orientation. You still have the influence of ground contact when they get up and move around. Keep that in mind. When we're talking about flipping somebody upside down, that's going to give you favorable mechanics and such, but I still have to have my influence coming from the ground up. That's how I superimpose the internal rotation up into the pelvis from the foot. Make sure you've got your appropriate foot contacts. Make sure you have the capacity to internally rotate the hip relative to the pelvis. So all of those things come into play in constructing the end result.