Is it fair to say that it's a change in philosophy relative to something?

Yes.

Don't know.

Well, okay. So you've got to turn around the top. Okay. There's a turn around the top, right? So, we go ER, ER, ER, ER. And then you start to squeeze the ER space closed till you get to hang on, boss. At the very top of the backswing. Yes. Change direction. Yes. Okay. So you're going into the cut. Yes. Your backswing. You see it?

So yeah, it hits and then it has to come back up, right? Yeah. Cause you're absorbing, you have to absorb, you have to absorb that energy, right? Yeah. Technically speaking, you're absorbing the energy the whole way. It's just what direction does it go? It's like, so I have to get that, I have to get the, You know, I land rather laterally. And then when this hits, that's what directs the energy towards the center of the pelvis. Essentially is what it is.

Not in this circumstance. What would be the circumstance? So again, if you're in a deeper position, the difference between being at the initiation of the descent of a squat and being at the bottom of a squat—one's late, one's early. In the deeper representation of the squat, you have a change in muscle orientation in the hip. The band around the knees allows the pelvis to change its shape into the early representation. But that would still be external rotation. It's still ER. But the motor output is reduced in that circumstance. That's what you're trying to encourage. See, I have all these muscles that become internal rotation muscles rather, right? I'm applying an external rotation leading resistance, so I'm not moving the knee into external rotation. I'm not moving the knee away from midline, so I get the external rotation to position. I'm just trying to alter the muscle activity that allows the shape change to access an early pelvis representation.

All right. I guess that's the piece that I need to like say out loud or hear.

Did I cut out again? Yeah, you did.

Yep. All right. She's going to get famous here pretty quick. Hang on a second. It's going to take me a second to bring it up.

Yeah.

You're a pole vaulter, you're a narrow stance. I think Sergei Bubka was probably the only wide stance pole vaulter I've ever seen. Yeah, he did okay, didn't he? Yeah, he just had a weird structure. Okay, so do your best imitation of like an RDL. Oh, thank you for turning sideways. How perfect. That was great. Solid move, solid move. Okay, so. Just don't think, just do this. This is like quick and dirty. Boom. Okay. All right. So, here's the bad news. Right. You still have a counter-rotated sacrum. Okay. So that was something I would not recommend, but in that position my point is that your center of mass actually went forward. For you to load your heels, you have to lighten your forefoot. Did you feel that? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, because I was under the impression through something else that we looked at previously that the coccyx generally occurred in the narrows because it will, so they need to come, they come down. It's not going to go like that. It's not going to go like that. It's not going to go like that. It's not going to go like that. It's not going to go like that. It's not going to go like that. It's not going to go like that. It's not going to go like that. It's not going to go like that. It's not going to go like that. It's not going to go like that. It's not going to go like that. that in my observation so far is typically been in narrows. It was one of the other reasons that I thought perhaps she was a narrow or be it she's obviously she looks kind of wide but I watch do you get that often in wides as well that you press down hard enough.

Yeah. Yeah. How do you differentiate between a proximal limitation and a distal limitation? Just curious.

Thank you for clarifying. I don't know. What's it for?

All right. So if I'm going up on the left and I'm on the right oblique, which side has more external rotation?

So you have to look at where is the force produced, the highest force production. That's going to be an IRD representation without fail if you have access to the positions. If you're looking at velocity, I cannot produce high forces if I am using a high velocity strategy. So I have to move in the opposite direction. So that's where ER. That's where you would be in more of an ER representation to demonstrate the velocity.

Yeah. I'm sure you do. And I'm guessing it's more females than males. Am I correct? Yeah.

Happy Thursday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect.

So are you rolling past midline? So straight up and down, like shoulders right on top of each other, hips right on top of each other.

But it still happens because again, it's like, anytime you're interacting with another system, you have no idea what their response is going to be. And again, just getting comfortable with that takes time. Good morning. Happy Thursday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect.

Yeah. So he had to produce more motor output to get the energy storage and release from the connective tissue. So it took him longer to create the impulse. So his impulse, he has to apply ground contact longer, OK? If I want to increase the emphasis on his connective tissues, what strategies can I use that don't reduce the force output?

Would the tibia be relatively externally rotated and the femur be a little relatively internally rotated, or are they more kind of stacked above one another?

Yes. Generally speaking, yes. Like I said, you've always got force going in both directions because you're applying a load. But when you look at the bias of the direction of the energy, that's what we're talking about. But yeah, for sure. And again, both useful at a certain time and place if executed appropriately. Because you can turn both those exercises into nightmares for people.

She's trying to make a left hand turn and yet her entire pelvic orientation, spine orientation is going the other way. So I have a left side that's shoving me directly against where I want to go. And so now what do I have to do to actually get into that direction? Would I have to increase the degree of output on the right side to overcome the left side?

Mm-hmm.

In on the box, expand, and then teach them to exhale and push up. So now I actually have a simple representation of a movement that allows them to yield. I can superimpose the breathing on top of that. I can make sure that they are learning how to take that breath without a compensatory action. Now I can then superimpose a small load on that to create a leading resistance. Couldn't die, right? So if I wanted to say promote a greater yield in the dorsal rostral and sacral base, I could give them a goblet position and I've just achieved that goal. Same exercise. Didn't have to change a whole lot of anything. And then they are starting to capture this sense of, oh, there's the expansion and there's the compression. You don't even have to use those terminology. You just say, just make sure you can breathe in, make sure that you exhale on the exertion. And then that becomes a simple rule for them to follow.

Okay. And once I get the same reason why you would want, since we talked about shoes earlier, the same reason that you want structure on the back of the shoe, you need a stiffer, uh, heel counter. The thing that holds onto the heel in a shoe that the stiffness of that helps feel where the calcaneus is and allows you to learn how to keep it squared to the front.

I actually found myself naturally like a double, say a double with sled track and I started in one line and I ended up sort of halfway like I was going.

Yes, but how is she going to step? What do you not want to do first in this scenario that could potentially create interference? Is she going to step back with both feet the same way?

So we've got a few people that have lifted heavy things on the call and they can attest to this, is that as you get better at lifting heavy things, you get better at squeezing yourself. Okay, so these are the superficial strategies that we talk about that create the anterior posterior compression. Okay, so if I squeeze you front to back, your socket orientation—so shoulders and hips—becomes oriented into extra rotation so they face sideways more so than they used to. And so that biases you into a position of ER. So this is not relative motion ER as we would want throughout the pelvis and the thorax. This is just an orientation. So it's just a socket position that's biasing this. Because of the anterior compressive strategies that you've used and evolved through lifting heavy things, you now compress the front side of your body and that takes away your internal rotations. So you're biased into ER orientation, and then you lose your relative motion internal rotation. Anterior compression. And then any internal rotation that you do have is going to be an orientation towards the ground. So this is people that would typically have an anti-orientation to the pelvis or an anti-orientation to the thorax. Does that make sense?