Bill, I have a coaching question for the one-arm press actually. So it's a flexion-based activity, which would mean that it's expansive and quality in your model. So when you press it, okay, I said it then. So that might answer my question. My confusion is: It's also a propulsion event in my model, if that means anything to you. But would you, based on that, have to exhale? So you're getting flexion and internal rotation then. So then why would you want to exhale?

Okay. So if I have to come to a stop, what movement do I need? ER or IR?

They cut off the blood flow, right?

When you didn't do that yet, hang on. You're trying to get ahead of me there, dear. So slow down a little bit. You just swung your leg forward. This is the very first ground contact. There's no weight on your leg yet. Other than the leg. It's in external rotation, yes, ma'am. Relative to. We always have to speak about a relative position because there's no absolutes here. You stepped forward, okay? The sacrum had to move away from that leg to put it out in a direction that you wanted to go that you're now calling forward. So again, it would be external rotation. You're actually stepping away from the midline of your body, which would be external rotation.

Okay. So the tibia is like this great little cue as to where the pressure is being applied. Fair. How many ground contacts do I have? Ballpark estimate. Actually, the met heads and the toes. Put them together and then put the heel in there.

What do I have to do? You have to be able to get that right heel. Okay. And then what? After that, then you have to be able to lie.

So if we're using a contralateral load, let's say left foot forward contralateral load, I can see two reasons why people might do that. First, to help someone access into the cat position if they don't have the relative motion to do so, right? Because it's creating the yielding action.

OK. And so if we differentiate this between like yielding and overcoming, I was thinking about this in the context of like a high arch foot. I mean, the shape's not exactly the same, but it's pretty darn similar, I think, a lot of the time. And so there is a little bit less space to move, but there's also, I think, less time to move. And so like a higher arch foot with overcoming connective tissues moves you faster as a result. And then a higher arch foot with yielding connective tissues provides more time for you to go through positional change.

Right. Okay.

Can I drive the whole tibial IR thing if I don't get the calcaneal representation first?

If there's a turnaround, you have to be closing space down, and then you reopen it, and then you squeeze again, there's impact. Then there was your father.

Otherwise I can't turn inward towards the ground, because I need that energy coming towards me to promote the position and the shape change that I need to be able to push into the ground effectively without having to compensate with an orientation of sorts to push into the ground.

And there you go. That right there is a statement of brilliance. That's a statement of understanding as to what you're working on and where you're trying to be. Am I trying to capture the middle representation or am I trying to capture the early representation because the muscle orientation changes? There's a huge difference in the shape of the pelvis. There's a huge difference in the muscle orientation. This is one of the reasons why you want to sequence internal pressure along the way as well. So, for instance, if I'm trying to bias the early representation at the bottom of the squat, and if I'm standing up, I do have to go through that middle representation, don't I? So the way I prevent too much bias in one direction is I'm going to drive breath to help manage the internal pressures. So I don't shift the bias so far in one direction. I still want to be able to go through that middle range. So I'm going to make sure that I have an exhalation going through that range.

So this is like, right?

Okay.

So let me back up and go to her. OK, let's see if I can get there we go. So if you look at her rear foot, you see that? See the twist in the rear foot?

Okay.

You were on your heels, but you had to lighten your forefoot to get there. You don't have any internal rotation in that position. That was an ER all day, every day. Good luck doing an RDL. It's not an exercise for you because you don't have the pelvic shape nor do you have the capacity to access that pelvic shape. It's okay. It doesn't make you a bad person. It makes you a better pole vaulter. You didn't move back. You have to have internal rotation to move back. You don't have it, not in that position anyway. Your center of mass has to be able to shift down and back to be able to do that, and you can't do it under any circumstance.

Sure. Yeah, I can. What you're seeing is the, okay. So, Matt, take a bamboo pole, okay, and compress it. What happens? It bends. There you go. Yeah, so you get enough downforce. So, just think about what's going through that lead leg from a downforce perspective, right? And she's got to push down through it.

That's why we're here, Zach.

What makes it move? So muscles make it move. What else makes it move?

Yeah. Okay. Is that where you want to mobilize the need to capture an internally rotated state? No, on the left side, we're talking about the left side. So I would probably, under most circumstances, sequence it as we described earlier. So what I would do is I would intentionally try to put the pelvis on the right oblique with the nutated sacrum. I would mobilize the right side. I would flip-flop the orientation of the pelvis and then turn it to the left and then mobilize the left knee under that circumstance. Because in both circumstances, I'm going after an internally rotated representation.

Yeah. Yeah. Early, middle, max, late, always, always.

Your legs are on backwards. Oh, light bulb. All right. Thank you. You're welcome, sir. Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, today's Wednesday. Normally I would be announcing the Coffee and Coaches Conference call for tomorrow morning. However, we're taking a few days off and so no coffee call this week. We will resume next week as usual. Appreciate y'all. Everybody enjoy sleeping in tomorrow or just sit back and relax with your coffee instead of digging into the normal Q&A. Which reminds me, digging into today's Q&A. This is with Manuel. Manuel's question has to do with how we promote expansion in certain types of clients that actually have trouble with this because of their physical structure. So we have to consider the archetype of the individual, but we also have to consider the configuration of the axial skeleton. Some people are biased towards being much more compressible at the superior aspect of the axial skeleton just because of their physical structure and so this influences the way that the pressures are managed and also the directionality of their internal forces and so this might be why your 45 year old accountant who's never played a sport doesn't really have a great vertical jump because they figured out early on their physical structure is not going to allow them to be this great athlete. Therefore they shifted gears and they went more towards their academic endeavors and became accountants. We have to consider this when we're working with athletes as well. There are certainly strategies that allow us to overcome some of these biases, but it behooves us to understand how these pressures are managed, especially when we're trying to select activities to restore relative motion. So this is a really good question for a lot of people. Thank you, Manuel. outstanding Wednesday. We'll be coming back after the Labor Day holiday. We'll throw some stuff up probably while we're gone. But generally speaking, I will see you guys on Tuesday next week.

Good. I tried to cover all bases there. Good morning. Happy Friday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Those of you on the two week sprint, this is your review and reflection weekend. Make sure your behaviors are in line with your intentions and you are making progress towards all of those major projects that you have in mind. Today we move into today's Q&A. This is with Zach. This is a really cool situation. So Zach is working with an athlete and in a very short period of time to diagnose and treat to try to get an outcome and did a great job. He actually made a significant impact on this athlete's symptoms to such a degree that the athlete felt like he could practice. So this was really exciting. The cool part about this though is now you have to look back and you have to say, okay, what did I see? What happened? What was my intention? So these are really important questions to ask under all circumstances. We tend to only ask ourselves questions when we fail miserably. But when we're successful, we have to look back and we have to ask the same questions. So this is the importance of having starting conditions. So this is one of the reasons why when I constructed the archetypes for the wide and the narrow ISAs, the reason those exist is because they give us an effective starting point. So when we do evaluate someone or assess them and we determine where they are, what their needs may be, we have the comparator of the foundational archetype because that's how we're going to work back and reverse engineer these processes to restore whatever relative motions they may need or whatever performance quality they need to develop. And so like I said, the important thing is to keep asking those questions, even when we're successful. It's like, what did I see? What could I have done differently? It's a very powerful question that you should always be asking. So Zach, thank you so much for this question. It's a great way to understand this process of how we get better. So again, thank you. Podcasts will be up on Sunday. Everybody have an outstanding weekend. And I will see you next week. Onward.

If I roll past midline back in the other direction, if you're doing it correctly, you would create the delay on the upside. So you're laying dead center middle on your side and you're just, you're doing sadness.

And so what you're seeing is you see the expansion associated with the inhale, and then you just see it propagate throughout. And it's really difficult to see your fingers externally rotate. But the premise that I want you to understand is that you literally this thing just spreads out and then as you exhale, the compression then resolves just like if you were standing on the beach watching the waves coming in and out.

It's just hard for sure. The bands can't be representative of a muscle position.

So then, that means that the posterior medial would start to become more concentrically oriented. Is that what it is?

Yes.