Yes. Okay. So she wants to make a left hand turn. Correct.

Yes.

Yeah. Thankfully, there are activities where we can simplify certain aspects. So if you're teaching somebody to squat, okay. And there's a couple of ways to do this. but what's the easiest way to teach somebody to squat?

Okay. I've seen your feet. So look at your feet on the ground. You've got a lot of that bony bend towards the ground. So if we were going to do an oblique sit, we would want to put pressure on your ischium to bend it back underneath you because it's bent out.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. So it was this morning for me. So when I looked at the sled drags, I thought, you know, this might work in a similar fashion. So I've been playing with this same side problem for a couple of days, and I tried the sled drags with the foot, the kind you call the wedding march, like the one where it's directly in front. I didn't get as good a result with the backwards step two, but when I went to the lateral, the sideways one, I got a much better result. Now, would that be indicative that I don't have room in front of me, but I do have room further? Quite past year, yeah.

Okay.

OK, awesome. So here's what I want you to do. I want you to take a maximum exhale for me to get all of your air out for a moment. Then I want you to breathe in exactly 50%. It's not going to be perfect, and that's okay. I'm just making a point. So you exhale all your air out, breathe in, and now you're 50% empty and 50% full. Fair enough? Are you inhaled or exhaled?

You ever have a client that has a really stiff big toe and they go, oh, I can't do that split squat because when my foot's behind me, I can't get my foot down on the ground. You ever have that? You know what I'm talking about? So they can't control the rear leg because they don't have enough ground contact. They don't have their four points of contact to create relative motion through the hip. So you'll always see compensatory strategies in people that can't put their back foot down because they don't have those four points of contact. The toe has to be able to bend in a late propulsive representation. The toe has to be able to bend. The reason it has to bend is so I can maintain my four points of contact.

You're ready for what? My Saturday night fever walk. Oh, sweet. Do you do... A little bit of that. Yeah, just when you start walking, you can feel the difference. After I've done it, yeah, yeah, you'll most likely have a little bit more internal rotation on the lead leg. Yeah, fun fact: I've seen Saturday Night Fever 150 times. True story. It's one of the greatest movies ever made.

Yes.

Because if you put pressure in the wrong place, you're not going to promote the desired shape change. You're not going to be able to capture the bony position that you want. So it can't be anything. You still have to attend to the representation. Now, let me ask you a question from a biasing standpoint. Do you want more internal rotation or more external rotation? Simple answer because you already told me where the foot was.

Going through it with depth surely expanded my appreciation for why we need clarity in the language we use.

Can you get closer to your microphone for me please?

Yes.

Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, another busy day coming up. But a quick reminder, tomorrow morning, 6 AM, Coffee and Coaches Conference Call. As usual, great Q&A, great people in these calls. You obviously watched a lot of these segments. Please grab a cup of coffee. Join us 6 AM Eastern Standard Time for the Coffee and Coaches Conference Call. Digging into today's Q&A, this is with Ivan. Ivan's question pertained to a little bit of knee orientation. But what we were actually talking about here is a lot of the influences of physical structure. And so structure represents the constraints. So we're always talking about how we can behave within these constraints. That's why I created the two archetypes, the wide and the narrow ISA archetypes, because it gives us a representation of what the possibilities are, gives us starting conditions. So we know where point A is when we see a representation of point B, and this allows us to intervene effectively and arrive at useful solutions when we have movement problems. So thank you, Ivan, for bringing this up. It's a great discussion that I think is going to be valuable for a lot of people. If you'd like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com. Please put a 15-minute consultation in the subject line so you don't delete it. Please include your question in your email. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience as usual. Everybody have an outstanding Wednesday. I will see you tomorrow morning, 6am Eastern Standard Time for the Coffee and Coaches Conference Call.

That could be a good segue to kind of get into the components of force a little bit.

Thank you, sir.

OK. Yeah, it's going to turn into a late representation, which would be more IR superimposed there. But yeah, you're right.

So sometimes I struggle with people who are at a very steep angle and getting them to feel what exactly, because everyone rolls just backwards. And so teaching them that they have to roll at kind of a steep angle is tricky sometimes. Do you have any queuing that seems to work well for that? I'll say something along the lines of pretend there's a string pulling you.

Yes.

Well, I've been doing that where I see an issue, maybe like an inability to get overhead or whatnot, and so I've been dealing with things as that kind of issue on an issue-by-issue basis. But I was trying to combine that with just the general theoretical aspects of filling from the bottom up and also reverse engineering to the original location. And then I was trying to create a better process, you know, a systematic process, rather than just take things case by case. I know there's experimentation involved in stuff and yes, again I'm trying to improve my process rather than just take things case by case without having a clear understanding of the process.

Awesome. So here's what I want you to do. Don't change your foot orientation at all. Keep it supinated. And then do whatever you have to do with your body to get the medial arch down to the ground. Thank you. Now come back to center. Now don't sway to your right and do the exact same thing.

What's the heaviest weight you've ever back squatted? Just give me a number, ballpark, it doesn't matter.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. it'd be harder, right? So if I'm trying to induce the mechanics and the intensity of the activity, the magnitude of the activity is too high that I can't get the joint excursion that I want and I'm using compensatory strategies, would it behoove me to try to drive those mechanics with a lesser magnitude? How would I do that? Oh, I put a kettlebell on your hand now and now I can induce those same mechanics and then eventually this can become the T pushup.

Yeah. I know. It's every day. All right. So I guess I'll move on then.

Yeah, but okay, 15 year old female volleyball player coming off her first ACL. Right, and you're teaching her to bounce across the ground again.

Yeah.

OK, so that's a neurologic phenomenon of how quickly the muscle behavior takes place. And when you talk about the off and on of motor units and things like that, it's like how many. So the concentric orientation, so the joint position may not change, but the rate at which the muscle behavior takes place will. So if the output slows down, that helps to dampen it. So that's what gives the connective tissues its yielding capability and allows it to dissipate the force. So if you were going to catch at the bottom and then try to utilize the elastic energy, that would not happen. The rate of the muscle activity would stay very, very high to allow the tissue to recoil. You understand? So there's the difference. OK, so you can't confuse the right behavior of the muscle activity with concentric eccentric orientation because that's a position. OK, and this is why we have to have those physiological representations in part of this. So you do understand because it would seem like, well, you're always going to try to dissipate the energy under that circumstance. It's like, no, because I have muscle behavior, the intramuscular, coordinate of elements of it that would produce the tuning of the connective tissues.

Okay, awesome. Now what I want you to do is go from the first metatarsal head on the right foot to the inside edge of the heel on the right foot. Then go back and make your turn in the other direction, so you hit the heel on the other side. That's what you have to do under those circumstances.

Thank you. Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Today is Wednesday. That means that tomorrow is Thursday, 6 a.m. tomorrow morning. Coffee and Coaches Conference call as usual. Great groups of people. Great questions. Grab yourself coffee. Please join us for the Q&A. These have been going on for quite some time and they just keep getting better. So I'm really enjoying these. And then again, please join us. Digging into today's Q&A. This is a question with Andrew. Andrew asked some great foundational questions and I think it'll add some clarity in regards to how things are described for a lot of people because a lot of times, and especially in the literature this happens, a great deal where the point of reference is not clear and therefore the descriptions then become confusing as to, well are we looking at a situation where we have something that is internally rotated relative to something else or do we have segments that are moving together? So we used a wide ISA public representation for this to help identify some of these relative positions and orientations, and again, just to add clarity to the language and understanding. But if you also have questions about why did I say pelvic mechanics, we're going to talk about that too. So again, it's going to be helpful on multiple levels. Thank you, Andrew, for this question. It's going to help a lot of people. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com. Put a 15-minute consultation in the subject line so I don't delete it. We will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Wednesday. I will see you tomorrow morning. 6 a.m. Coffee and Coaches Conference call. Have a great day.