Don't sway to your right. Get the medial arch down.

Okay. I'm going to put 405 on the bar. You've never squatted 405 ever, correct?

Hip airplane is, is the arm bar, right?

I don't really see a timer or anything. So you just keep me updated. I got a timer. Okay. So a little bit about wides and narrows. In a narrow, I would envision that the exhaled lower rib cage, the ISA, since it's closing off, would that be pushing gas volume upward? And is that expanding their A to P inhalation capabilities, or is that not correct because it's coming later in the sequence?

Coming off her first ACL. Right, and you're teaching her to bounce across the ground again.

Okay. On the oblique.

Yes. And again, keep in mind, if you think about a sequence of events: nervous system output, muscle behavior, connective tissue behavior. That whole sequence of events involves an amazing ballet of interplay. This is why anyone with small kids who have just learned to walk can be clumsy—they're trying to figure out how to coordinate all these elements at once. Eventually it becomes second nature. Does anybody play guitar? Are you good, Thomas? What's your go-to jam when you have to show off a little? Like some Travis picking stuff like Freight Train? Do you think about it when you're playing? Not in the least. See? There you go. So our behaviors become similar, and again, that comes from training and repetition. The coordination evolves over time, but you have to examine this from an interactive standpoint—multiple lenses: nervous system output, muscle behavior, what are the options? Under those circumstances, how would the connective tissues behave? What am I observing in context? Then work backwards: you hit this joint position, and you know you have enough eccentric orientation to get into this position. Have you ever seen people who dampen too much—land from a jump and take forever to leave the ground? They're incapable at that moment of tuning the connective tissue, so they rely on intramuscular coordination to tune the connective tissues for a favorable response. Maybe they can, maybe they can't. Then you go back to physical structure: why can't Johnny jump? Because he's a pylon, who will be a great accountant someday.

So that's what your question is: everybody seems like you got to turn left. Yes, under many circumstances you do. But how far forward the center of gravity is going to determine where you have to move them into the space, because all the space where relative motion lives is between your feet. Yes. So the farther I go to the edges of my feet in any direction, in any direction. If I'm on my toes, if I'm on my pinky toes, if I'm on the lateral aspect of the heel, that's on the outside, that's on the periphery, right? The closer you get to the outside of your base of support, the less relative motion you have. You felt it, correct?

Good morning.

But this is why, you know, old cowboy movies and you see the guy walk in and he's got his high heel boots on and his spurs and stuff, but he's walking on the outsides of his feet and you can see the tunnel between his knees, right? Because the horse is still there, right? Or my Harley Davidson riders that come in and they're the same way.

Okay.

Okay, so let's just broadly talk about ERs and IRs first, okay? So ERs make spaces, right? That's how we create a space to move into and then IRs produce force. And when we're talking about gravity, right? There is an up and then there's a down. So ER would lift me up away from the ground, IR is going to push me down to the ground. Fair enough, so far so good, right? Okay, so if you were going to measure somebody's hip, what measurement would create the space for you to move into in a hip? Real simple question.

Okay.

All right. So today's Wednesday. That means tomorrow is Thursday. Therefore, 6 a.m. tomorrow morning, coffee and coaches conference call as usual. If you have not made it to these calls, you're missing out. Great groups of people. Great questions. Grab a cup of coffee. Please join us. Bring the question. Great fun for everyone. Okay, today's Q&A, a little different. Just a reminder to focus on the process. There's a lot of uncertainty, a lot of unpredictability in situations and worrying with humans in these complex situations. And this is why people become over-reliant on averages and straight planes and such when the reality is that all movement is idiosyncratic. Therefore, we're going to see things that show up that are unusual, that look kind of like that or like that. And so then we have to go off the cookbook if you will. And therefore everyone is going to behave idiosyncratically and we have to get comfortable with that. And so the way we do that is we focus on process. So this is your assess, intervene, reassess process. And this is how you're going to get comfortable with that as well as spending time gaining experience and being comfortable with being uncomfortable. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com, put 15-minute consultation in the subject line, so I don't delete it. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everyone have an outstanding Wednesday. I will see you tomorrow morning, 6 a.m. Coffee and Coaches, campus call.

Backwards. Yeah. I'm thinking, sorry, I probably didn't say it out loud, I was thinking it. Yeah, if you're going backwards, you're going to be in that earlier representation, right? But keep in mind that you're dragging some weight, so it's going to keep you a little bit closer to the middle. But it is, like, if you want to maintain coherence in your programming, it would behoove you not to do like a forward sled drag, you know, where somebody's walking forward or a prowler push or something like that for somebody that you're trying to capture early with. That would be a conflict.

I'm imagining upper extremity or the- Don't even go that far.

You turn away from.

Bill.

Yeah. Yeah. Cause I was getting stuck at the hip internal rotation.

Correct. That's another IR substitution, absolutely.

Can we just talk about infrastructural angles and stuff? Everybody's here. No, go ahead.

Yeah, I like those days because you seem really, really smart.

Everyone's familiar with getting their blood pressure taken. Average blood pressure tends to fall into that 120 over 80 measurement. That's the comparator that everybody makes. If your numbers are higher than that, you might be qualified as high blood pressure. If your numbers are lower than that, they might say you have low blood pressure. They're comparing you to an average, not knowing where you might perform best. It's an average. We know we reach a certain threshold and then we've seen over time, because we've been able to measure things over time, they say if you go 140 over 90 and you're any higher than that, you're probably going to pay a consequence for that. We have millions of measures to go by where we can say things like that. When we look at individuals on the performance scheme, we don't know what the answer is. It's very gray and very complex. That's why we rely on principles and say, what are the principles I need? Is there something I can do to enhance this? We train them and then we test and say, what was I trying to impact? You have to have an intention first. You ask, I need you to increase your throwing velocity. What contributes to velocity? I need an excursion of range of motion to access, and I have to be able to produce force at a certain place in time with a window of that when you're looking at a throw. What enhances my ability to produce that? Do I have sufficient range of motion? I don't know what your needs might be. So we measure you and then do something and say, what happened with our experiment and did we do something favorable? Did we increase throwing velocity? Yes, we were successful in improving throwing velocity. We continue on that path if more velocity is needed. Then we re-measure and there's a point in time where we no longer capture more throwing velocity. Adding more strength in the gym has a threshold where beyond that, doing more doesn't make us better. We're tracking a number of things over time and seeing what changes as we train in regards to the intention we started with, which was throwing velocity.

Okay. And so that's part of the qualification?

Are you talking about like a pain on the inside of the elbow?

Probably not.

My question is that I'm pretty new to your methodology of things. I've picked up bits and pieces of it by watching what you put on YouTube. I saw a couple of short clips from what I believe was a seminar with a powerlifter. I saw you put him in a couple of positions to improve hip flexion and shoulder internal rotation. My question, as I put in the email, is about working in a busy private practice and coming up with ways to make exercise interventions as effective as possible. I'm looking for big pillars to keep in mind regarding positions that can influence common deficits we see in clinic. For example, shoulder issues commonly involve restricted internal rotation. Hip issues often involve limited hip flexion when patients experience pinching sensations. Those are two very common deficits.

Well, I got some bench press problems too. So hang on.

If they can't, then they're lacking ER.

That's going to be context dependent.