On the anterior outlet? Right? So if it's concentric in the anterior outlet, what is the representation? What is the representation of the public? Is it IR?

Yeah. And so all of your lateral epicondylitis diagnoses and lateral epicondylalgia and all of those fine folks. This is your late representation.

No, no, no, your instinct is really good, but let's talk about this a little bit as to why, okay? So when somebody descends into a squat, why do they stop?

And the lower leg.

But there is no certainty.

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.

Yes. The only thing I would say different is that the connective tissue is the delay strategy. Okay.

So again, it's like magnitude of load matters, position matters, activity matters. You just put all those pieces together and that's how you follow it. But again, if you use the green dot analogy, it's going to kind of tell you where your center of gravity is shifting relative to the position of the load.

Yeah. Okay. So now you just took, so 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, oh, 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, is so I can see what happens when they stand up.

We will move toward concentric.

Okay, well, if you get that, then you're on the right track as far as what you're doing. Then you have to look at the complexity of the activity. So we get on these calls and we all have experience with teaching and coaching movement. And the person that you're working with has no idea what we're talking about. Okay, so now we're dealing with a complexity issue. Right, you know what the end game for like, if you're trying to coach a split squat on something that's never ever done a split squat and you're trying to chase relative motion at the same time, good luck. Cause it doesn't happen. It doesn't happen, right? It just doesn't happen. And you go back to Nikolai Bernstein, one of the things that you recognize in people that are of low skill, is that, and this is his degrees of freedom issue, right, that he will bring up. It's like people will lock things together to reduce the degrees of freedom in a complex situation that is unfamiliar. And that's basically what happens, which means that as soon as you try to teach somebody something they've never done before, they will not use relative motion because, number one, they have no idea what you're talking about. Number two, it's very difficult for them to execute. And so they have to take The theoretical 244 degrees of freedom that you have in your body, and they try to lock it into as few as possible. So they're going to lock joints together. They're going to move segments together. And so then what you have to do is you have to put them in a position where they are more comfortable. So you take gravity away. So I bring you down to the ground. I reduce internal forces that you have to manage. I lay you on a side. I teach you to feel contacts with the ground. I might have to use a static position to start. to teach you the appropriate sensations to attend to. You have to create a movement vocabulary for them. You know what you want. You understand what you want. But if you speak your language to them, it's like me in Portuguese. I don't have any idea what you're talking about. And so you have to make that decision in regards to, okay, how hard do I need to make this? Where do I have the greatest access to what I'm trying to do? And then you slowly increase the complexity.

No. Not necessarily. What you're going to look at is the rear foot. If that rear foot is bent inward, I'll tell you what: go to the mirror and look at your feet on the ground.

So that wave that comes up from the ground up, that distal-proximal wave, the resultant position being we're presuming by that some more posterior expansion in that right hip, which allows for more internal rotation of that right hip. Correct. Two little quick follow-ups in relation to it. One of them is in regards to the sled drag that you put on this morning.

So a right foot forward stagger chop in that direction and a front foot elevated split squat both do something similar. They slow that side down and they allow the internal rotation to be acquired. I'm unweighting. So the front foot elevation unweights the front leg. The chop unweights the front leg. Do you see it? And that a lot, so if I take gravity away, I reduce the forces that they're trying to manage.

If you had somebody that was further forward, so their center of gravity kept going forward, that would be somebody, a narrow ISA, that went forward on the left, and then went left to right. So they're just following where the empty space is available to move. In that scenario, you have to move somebody from right to left first, then move them back on the left. And so this is determined by your measures or your observation of movement.

Okay.

Drop your heel back to the ground. The square just got elongated to the length of your foot. Where you had a horizontally shaped rectangle when your forefoot was only on the ground, now you have a more vertically oriented rectangle. You have two points of contact on your heel and the big toe and the first metatarsal combined into one, the fifth toe and the fifth metatarsal combined into one. So there are your four points of contact.

If you're pushing through the trochanter, you're doing it through the hip. So you're doing it from there immediately. If you move it up and put it on the iliac crest, you'll get much more of that type of shape change. You have to decide which one you want. If I create the shape change here, I'll end up with more proximal to distal IR because I'll hold that shape change as I'm pushing into the ground with my leg toward the sled. If I put it down in the trochanter, I can drive more IR from distal to proximal and promote the change that way. You have to decide: do I want an early representation of that IR that's coming up in the ground, or am I trying to deliver more IR into the ground?

So let's bring it up to the thorax. So I have technically tried this yet, but it got me thinking because I know that I'm here. I know that I'm more open, right? Yeah. And, you know, it's obvious.

If you create that space and you capture the medial hook contact, you have moved them back. Because to create the space, think about it, that has to expand. If there's expansion there, what direction would you move? Your hip back. Yeah. So it's like, as soon as you start creating that space, you're moving in that direction.

That was not my point. That was more like- I know it's not.

When I watch some of your videos, perform techniques on people, and then they manage to get like that. They do a suitcase carry, right? On the right side. Yes, sir. And in one technique, they may manage to gain like their full rotation back. Yes. But then I also think for other people, it doesn't work like that. They might need to do multiple techniques. Right. My question is like, how fast should changes happen? That makes sense.

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I always remember that when we talk about these gradient related behaviors like yield to overcome, ER to IR, up versus down, it's like they're both there. But again, if we move into a high degree of predictability, that trains the system to have a yield, to have an overcome available, and the application of that then becomes contextual.

They're just reorient. They're just orienting. There you go. Yeah. Got it. And another strategy for that same narrow, could it be the crossover walking to the left with resistance? Could that possibly work too?

This is where the axial skeleton goes.

You're pushing into the floor with the right foot. Right.

Hold the scapula like tilted and okay.

Okay. And you bring your elbows slightly forward about 30 degrees. Good. Then bring your hands closer to your face, but keep your elbows out. Close to that—that's the side of your head closer to your face. It's in front of you.

Right. So that's what I was thinking is, you know, you're filling up from the bottom up, so your compressive strategies or compensatory strategies are moving this way.