Mm hmm.

And whatever fits that bill, that that is all useful.

Um, the analogy I thought of was like, when you have like someone with like Achilles tendinosis and they're like really pushed forward and they try and stretch it. type of thing. Um, is that kind of the same scenario where it's like you need to really focus on the orientation and just stretching is not really going to.

Yeah, so now my center of gravity is gonna try to stay lateral. Well, how do I do that? I twist the entire leg into external rotation. Get it?

But again, nobody's going to be able to press overhead in ER because you just don't have enough force to do it. It is perfect. A busy Friday as usual. Little behind schedule. So we're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Manuel. We were talking about the knees moving away from midline in a squat and how that would relate to what we would see in pressing movements. So we can alter grips on a bar. But what are we going to see in regards to how we adjust the upper extremities under load as we would see in a squat. And it turns out we're going to see very, very similar strategies because the principles are the same. So we have structural issues that are going to be influences. So your archetype is going to help determine what ranges of motion that you're able to access most easily. So, for instance, if you're a wide ISA, you're going to be biased towards being a better bench presser than you are an overhead presser. It doesn't mean you can't press overhead. It just means that from a structural standpoint, it's easier for you to access those ranges of motion. If we have superficial compressive strategies that have been superimposed, then obviously that's going to limit the spaces that we can access as well. And so we discussed that in reference again to how we're going to see this show up in a pressing motion. If you're wondering why you see some people needing wider stances, why you see knees moving away from midline under certain circumstances, this will give you that explanation, so I think you'll find it useful. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartmanedgymail.com, put 15-minute consultation in the subject line, so I do not delete it. We will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding weekend. A podcast should be up on Sunday. Don't forget to go to the YouTube page and subscribe so you can get all the videos that we post up there. And I will see you next week.

The perfect storm element came from yesterday when I got a text from an attendee of the intensive that is actually using these strategies both manually and through exercise with great success. So it is useful and I think you'll find it useful as well. So everybody have an outstanding Friday. We're going to cut away to a segment from yesterday's Coffee and Coaches Conference call and then don't forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel. I am traveling this weekend so we'll get the podcast up as quickly as we can this weekend as well. Have a great Friday. I'll see you next week.

And there you go. And you want to minimize that.

I know your history too, and so I know you're ahead of me in the Bionic man race for Bionic man status.

A good amount every time they come in.

I was like, well, you've been here for 20 minutes. We have another 40 minutes. There you go. So when you do have someone like, for example, I've been working with Artem because I've worked with Artem on some stuff like related to like my right hip. My right hip? Yeah. OK. When I started, I was like an end game wide because I had real poo straight leg raise on each side, like 45 and maybe like less on my right, right? And no hip irs worse on the right than the left, a bunch of hip ER, right? So we pulled me back first using like some downhill skier activities, right? To promote some like posterior or lower yielding, right? To just give me more space to move into like banded, zerg or breathing. I have a history of like CrossFit power lifting. So I just squeezed the crap out of everything. Right. And then we finally got to a point where I had like enough hip abduction that he knew he had pulled me back enough. And then we started doing like a left side lying right propulsion to orient me over towards the left.

Could you then infer from that that the tissue is yielding, if you're getting no pain when you put a knee wrap in place and you're getting pain without the knee wrap, then your tissue is yielding possibly too much. Maybe without the knee wrap. Maybe.

Yeah, that's pretty good. I'll definitely look around and ask for recommendations. I know some registered massage therapists are here in Canada, so I'll ask them. What did you mean by rolling them when they're on the floor?

Cause like, so when we're talking about the lateral aspect, you're saying, okay, we're starting with pressing your.

Right. So I start to create a yield and distribute the force. What you have is a representation of a very focal force application on the bone. First and foremost, I want to teach how to distribute that force. It helps alleviate symptoms. So I get less focal load. There might be shape issues associated with foot position, tibial orientation, femoral orientation, pelvis orientation. You still have to address those. Then you bring him back to have the ability to apply the same force that brought him to you, but teach how to distribute it more effectively. So maybe capturing enough internal rotation somewhere that he doesn't have to do it through the bone. Learn how to distribute that force more effectively. You're not wrong—you need both. But when thinking about treatment initiation, don't do the same thing that got him there. Chances are that's not optimal. It's like how you fix a hangover—drink more alcohol? Not usually the best solution. The thought process is solid, but change the application. You have many options, and chances are he doesn't respond well to one of them—apparently it's the high rate, high force because he's not distributing it well. Does that make sense?

Yes.

Okay.

What's not?

So I'm an undergrad in exercise science.

Well, so hang on you hit on something really important here that I apologize for interrupting But you know something really important is we have to look at this Systemically we can't we can't look at a piece and then make a decision You have to look at the relationships between all of the all of the pieces, right? So to speak even though you're one big piece, right? Okay, but that that's really important and I'm so glad you actually said it out loud because because it People are making decisions thinking that they're measuring one thing and that's impossible.

And then say, okay, what am I willing to let her have access to? Because I don't want to steal performance from her. She's obviously a very good athlete. If she can manage this and play, right? I just need to give her comfort the rest of the time.

They take it for granted.

Right.

So again, what you have to understand though, is you have to understand what your throwing mechanics represent, where the limitation may be, and then you select your exercises appropriately. Does that help you?

Is that not graded exposure? It's not as violent as her jumping across the ground as we would say during plyometrics. But is that not the same process? Can I not start to expose those tissues to a lighter stimulus and then progress that over time?

How about that?

Okay.

And then that teaches him to create all of these different strategies through the pelvis and through the hip. And so now that helps me select what I want to do for him because it's meaningful to him. And it's useful at the same time, but he understands it. So a lot of this is just kind of relating to the individual and getting an understanding. Now, I think he said all that. Okay. I fail a lot. Okay. Cause I always try, I always try to hit the home run. If I can give somebody one exercise that addresses three different concerns, I will try to do that first. Again, it takes someone that's more coordinated than somebody that isn't. So, so like I said, again, I pick on the 45 year old accountant that's never played a sport cause it's kind of easy to do. So under those circumstances, I tend to not give them the most complex of exercises. But if I have an athlete that comes in, it's like, Hey, we're going to go in the gym and we're going to mess around with some, some cable activities. Whereas with the accountant, you know, he's laying on his back or he's laying on his side or I'm teaching him how to roll like literally teaching, teaching somebody how to roll, you know because they, they don't have that capacity based on their physical shape. So, so does that help you at all?

That is an appropriate trial and error and safe experimentation is very scientific. You're allowed to do that.

Okay, so let's think about why this would happen. So you've got dorsal rostral compression, and that would lead to what would be considered traditional lower cervical extension. There is no turning there. You have to have dorsal rostral expansion and lower cervical flexion to create turns. Same rule applies at the base of the sacrum and the lower part of the lumbar spine. First order of business is I've got to create a yielding action to allow that expansion to occur. Right? Because that's going to allow the turns to occur. And that's going to alleviate the constant orientation that's creating this compressive strategy in the first place. And so under these circumstances, and again, depending on the environment that we're working in and what we're trying to acquire, these are going to be sort of like a lot of the sideline short amplitude turns and rolls, but I'm gonna fix the cranium in the upper cervical spine and I'm gonna try to get everything to turn below it.

He like big belly kind of thing.