Like half people lock their yoga block in between their elbows to try to promote dorsal rostrum. You know, like my thinking is just like, okay, I have the shoulder blades move away from the spine, but not up. So I'm not triggering much activity in the dorsal rostrum in term of muscle behavior. And then I have them just externally rotate a tiny bit against the band. So like, or just have someone put a little bit of a distraction with a band on like the inner thigh, let's say of someone in a split sense, I trigger a tiny bit of a doctor. And hopefully with that, I can guess that if they keep a nice shape, I'm trying to teach them to move within that range with a little bit less of external rotator to the right.

Okay.

There you go. So you were just naturally falling onto your helical angle. Good morning. Happy Friday. I have neurocopy in hand and it is perfect. All right. For those of you on the two-week sprint, this is your review and reflection weekend. Make sure you are on course for your intended outcomes. Check your processes and make sure you are on point for those issues. All right. Digging into today's Q&A. This is with Alex. Alex has a question in regards to some representations that he saw with some extreme extra rotation measures and a rather significant deficit in internal rotation. So relative to dead guy zero, he actually has a negative measure in internal rotation. And so we discussed how that representation arises, which is a lot of orientation. So when we're talking about the posterior compression in the pelvis, what we're going to actually see as we get this front to back compressive strategies, we're going to get a reorientation of the sockets if you will. So this occurs in both the shoulder and the hip. It's a little bit easier to see actually in the shoulder because it ends up looking like a shrugged orientation, which is the socket turning up and out to capture the externally rotated position. In the pelvis, it's still a shrugged representation, but this is actually what anti-orientation is. So anti-orientation is the IR representation, so I can get that inominate to turn enough to point that socket up and out to create the excellent orientated representation. So that's how it occurs, and then we sort of break down a couple of activities that we could use under this circumstance to help start us in this externally rotated representation and move us towards internal rotation. So thank you, Alex. Your question will help a lot of people. Everybody have an outstanding Friday. The podcast should be up sometime on Sunday, and then I will see you all next week.

Yeah.

In university, where I go, we're being taught traditional methods of stretching and strengthening. Recently, we got into the concept of body levers. I remember in one of your videos you said that only dead guys have levers. Can you expand on that a little?

Okay. I don't know if anybody else understood anything that we just said, but I know that you and I understand each other and that's a good thing. I'm a little frightened by that fact, but it's a good thing.

It would already be starting to go towards the left.

Okay, so as you're reaching and stretching, do you think those muscles are somehow eccentrically oriented when they're under load? No. They're not. Do you think those connective tissues are letting go easily? No. There's going to be an element of stiffness that's going to be maintained, especially at your level of development. Again, you're in superhero level development here. You've got stiff tissues that are going to behave in that manner a great deal. You're going to use your skeleton a lot because that's how you've lifted gigantic, heavy weights. And so again, this is an old representation. Like people think that, oh, I'm moving into, like I'm eccentrically oriented in those back muscles. So therefore I'm getting expanses. Like they're not eccentrically orienting. And like you're maintaining a great degree of concentric orientation because you've got a bunch of load in your hands. So we're playing with matters of degree here. If you were doing like a 45 pound cable row, we might be able to have a different discussion, but I'm guessing you got a couple hundred pounds minimum in your hands.

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Yes. Yes.

I am in a high oblique, but they couldn't [access it] because I was on the right side.

Is an overhead press more in line with this narrow ISA?

Yeah. I think that's standard. It's standard.

Right. So. And then we say, where is that force directed? Is it through a foot? Is it through a hip? Is it through an axial skeleton? How is it distributed? Is it distributed broadly? Or is it localized? So that's location. Okay. What direction is the force going? It's going up from the ground up. Is it going from the top down? Is it coming from the side? Is it internal? Is it external? You see, I can see location, direction, duration. How long am I applying this force? So initially, when I apply a force, say connective tissues might behave in a very stiff manner, but if I keep applying that force, the connective tissue behavior may change. So I might start in a stiff representation. And then because the duration of the force application is longer, now the connective tissue starts to yield. So that's a duration related change. That's a, like stress relaxation would be a representation of connective tissue behavior that changes with time. Cool. Frequency, like how many times is the force applied per unit of time? Okay. Is it a regular interval? Is it once every second? Or is it a random application over time? Cause the tissues will behave, as soon as I apply the force, the tissue behaves. If I release the force, the tissues will move back towards where they started, but how far into where they started does that tissue behave before I hit it again? Okay, so that's variability. Okay, and then we always talk about rate because it's an easy one to see. If I apply a force very, very quickly, the tissues might behave more stiff. If I apply it very slowly, they yield more effectively, right? So each one of those elements has an influence. They are all always there. They are all always there. It's just to what degree one might be represented more than the other or my intention.

Yeah. Yeah.

At the end of the push-off, we're into late, correct?

You created a late representation on the upside. If that's what you want, then I would do that.

Well, I'm okay. The base of the thumb.

Okay. Traditional viewpoint. Take the position of the scapula as if you're standing up and then take a north-south axis straight through it, a superior to inferior axis. Pivot the scapula around that. By traditional representation, if I turn the glenoid towards the front, that would be internal rotation of the scapula. If I turn the glenoid so it points out to the side, that would be a traditional representation of external rotation. That's an orientation into external rotation in my world. But by their definitions, they're going to look at things in axes and planes rather than a total representation. What I talk about to eliminate confusion are positions of expansion and compression. The expanded representation would be a breath in an inhalation, which would move the scapula into a position of inhalation. External rotation is the position of inhalation. So when I talk about an externally rotated scapula, I'm talking about the inhaled representation, which is not what traditional measures would talk about because I think they're confusing. So when you take the test, you have to know the answers that they want. Traditional external rotation is what they would call it when you're actually turning the sockets. I call that an extra orientation because it is not the inhaled representation—it's just pointing out to a space.

So I'm still trying to figure out.

Slowing down.

Yeah. In and out. Up and down. Exactly. I like it wonderful, cool. Does that help you? Yeah, I took what I understood about the arm bar and I kind of exported it to the hip. And now it kind of makes sense a little bit.

No, I'm afraid not.

Yup. I see the difference. Yes. So that makes sense from a performance end. For a powerlifter, they want stiffness, and the yield comes from the bone because it can handle the massive loads they're trying to lift as part of their sport. If we take it to the other end—like this powerlifter comes in with pain, and we eliminate the performance goal—now the goal is just to get motion back. That's where this person, like I see, is still figuring out which approach to use. Like, am I going to use—okay, hang on. Okay.

So I have to move towards IR. Think about this for a second. If I have to move towards IR and I don't have any IR. Again, not everybody's going to get this. The weightlifter that you posted, that was in the split. I'm assuming it was his split jerk position.

Good.

So it kind of looks like this. Maybe that's a, that's a cross-sectional view of a thorax.

Yes, yes. Saying that the pelvis as a whole is anteriorly oriented is not correct. What's that?

Right, okay. So let's identify what representation of the spine you're actually looking at, right? So if the body of the vertebra is intact, okay? So you've got the pars defect that's allowing the body of the vertebra to slide forward, right? Okay. In that representation, what strategy are they using? Is it an ER strategy or an IR strategy that creates the spondylolisthesis? IR. Okay. So right away, you kind of know what she's doing, okay. Damn. Is that a normal representation of internal rotation superimposed on ER?

So again, you have to decide what the goal is. If we're trying to recapture relative motions, we have to manage things like direction, magnitude, position, et cetera. So if the force is outside of my base of support, that's beyond where I have access to relative motion. Okay. So when we talk about, excuse me, we talked about capturing the early foot and that would be medial heel contact, first metatarsal head. That's where we start to superimpose the internal rotation on the external rotation. So that is a demonstration of relative motions where both of them exist at the same time in that representation. If I was to stay on the outside edge of the foot and never capture the medial aspect of that foot, that would be an orientation into external rotation with no internal rotation available.