The bilateral symmetrical stuff allows you to ramp up that force and that pressure because from an axial skeletal standpoint. We closed up shop on IFest 2.0. Everything is getting moved over to IFest 3.0. Training is up and running. Physical therapy should be up and running this week. I'm excited about that. I'm digging into today's Q&A. This is a question that Manuel initiated on one of the most recent Coffee and Coaches conference calls about force production on single leg relative motion in the pelvis and the influence of bilateral symmetrical activities. One of the things we're going to recognize is that things don't have to look exactly like something to have a favorable influence—for instance, bilateral symmetrical activities. High force producing activities are actually helpful in single leg activities. For example, we talked about agility in this call where the force is getting very, very high. There's a point in time where we want a reduction in relative motion within the axial skeleton for that high force production. This is where bilateral symmetrical activities come in handy because we don't have to worry about the turning that's associated with the control element of a single leg activity, so we can focus on that high force production that we're actually going to utilize in a single leg activity. As we move into a cut and that point in time where we need the highest force production to the ground, the least amount of relative motion gets closer and closer to what would be represented in the high force of that bilateral symmetrical activity. That's why they are useful. I think you'll find this call somewhat useful. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhardmanedgmail.com, put '15-minute consultation' in the subject line, and we'll arrange that at our mutual convenience.

So if I have a tibia that's going ER and if you ever see this going IR, you've got a patella that's going to get pulled laterally. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Digging into a new week. Quick note of housekeeping. For fast view members, the Q&A from last week is posted and ready for your viewing pleasure. So take advantage of that. Digging into today's Q&A, this is with Kade. Kade is working with a very high level basketball player that has a history of some tendon related issues in the knee, had a little bit of recurrence of knee pain. He's managing it actually quite well. But we did talk about probably what you're going to find most often in these situations is you're going to have a mechanical issue with the knee. One of the most common findings you're going to have is you're going to see this tibiofemoral ER represented at the knee. One of the easiest ways to check this is via your heel to butt knee flexion measure. So when we have a limitation in knee flexion, we oftentimes have that mechanical issue where you have tibiofemoral ER, which would be promoting the screw home representation, which would be an extended representation of the knee and therefore knee flexion becomes limited. So using that as a test may be helpful for you. But we discussed a number of things in regards to the mechanical orientation, how to address some of the tendonopathy related symptoms as far as loading the tendon, how we're going to go about that. So again, probably going to be useful for a lot of people. So thank you, Cade. If you'd 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 Monday, and I will see you later.

If internally we're producing a biased force, we have to have a strategy to manage that.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. Alright, a couple of housekeeping issues: Applications for the intensive 15 are rolling in, and we'll be turning a couple away from where I make the cutoff because there's a lot of applications to read for that, so probably cut that off at the end of business today. So if you're still interested in applying for the Intensive 15, which is in November—I believe it's the 18th through the 21st—then please get your application in today so you don't miss out on that opportunity. It'll be the last Intensive for 2021. We just moved over the weekend, so things are a little bit crazy at this point. So we're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. And I was talking to Manuel, and we were talking about pulling off the floor and how we're going to overcome the inertia and what we're going to see under certain circumstances. What do we need from a positioning standpoint to actually make that pull off the floor? So we're talking about max P here. We're talking about maximum propulsion into the ground. So we're going to have an IR representation, which means we're going to have a nutated sacrum and a concentrically oriented pelvic outlet. So we have to have a lot of pressure going upward. But what if you can't achieve that position? What is going to be our strategy under those circumstances? What are we going to see from a compensatory standpoint? So we talked a little bit about that. And then we talk a little bit about connective tissues as well. So I threw a little segment on the end of here that we've seen before. If you go back to the seven components of force video where we were talking about connective tissue behaviors, we also have to consider that if we have yielding actions where we need overcoming actions to make these pulls off the floor, then we're going to need to train those as well. So we talk a little bit about that as well. So very useful video in a number of regards in regards to positions and such, but especially pulling off the floor. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com—askbillhartman at gmail.com—put '15-minute consultation' in the subject line. We will arrange that at our mutual convenience. I got a bus to move. Everybody have a great Monday. I'll see you later.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and It is perfect. All right, a typical busy Monday. For those of you on IFAST University, we have a call at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. If you're not at IFAST University, please go to IFASTUniversity.com. Get yourself signed up so you can join us for the conference call at 1 p.m. All right, digging into today's Q&A. This came through email from BradyS and he says, hi, Bill. I have severely rounded shoulders. And I'm working hard to strengthen my upper back to pull my shoulders back. I'm making little if any progress. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks. Okay, so let's redefine what we're actually looking at. So what we're actually looking at under these circumstances is not a rounded shoulder problem per se. What we have is a rounded shoulder result. And so at minimum you're looking at a sternal compressive strategy that is pushing the sternum down and back. The resultant is a response of the shoulder girdle in its behavior relative to this down pump handle situation. The way you're going to know this Brady is you're going to lose a lot of shoulder internal rotation under these circumstances. Depending on the other compressive strategies you're going to see some other things occurring as the shoulder protracts, you're going to see a scapular elevation that's going to be associated with this. So if we can take a baby step back, the biggest problem that we have here is calling this thing a rounded shoulder because it implies that your shoulder is going to get pulled forward. by so-called tight muscles. So we will say, well, you have tight pecs and that's pulling your shoulders forward. And then you have weak scapular muscles. And so we end up with this scenario of the stretch and strengthen crowd where people are going to try to pull on pec muscles that are actually contracted and they're going to try to pull back on scapular muscles and you can end up with what looks like the before picture on the Terry project because Terry had a down pump handle. He had the rounded shoulder appearance and tried to fix it by constantly pulling back the scapula in a retracted state and therefore created a secondary postural issue as you can see in the picture. So we have a wrong model therefore a wrong solution. So the positioning more importantly the movement of the shoulder girdle is very dependent on the shape of the thorax and so this is going to be dependent on your ability to compress and expand appropriately which means that we've got to get airflow into the upper portion of the thorax to restore a normal anterior posterior expansion, normal shoulder girdle representation and therefore normal relative motions. And so if we think about people that are at this end game strategy.

Literally have inside a knee joint. I have one area of the knee that's IRD and I have one area that's ERD. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Man, I had a stellar weekend. Got to see a lot of extended family that I have not seen in a very, very long time. A lot of people that mean a lot to me. So I appreciate you all. I'm going to hang out at Elvis's house a little bit. Yeah, it still looks like the 70s, as I recall. So that was kind of fun. But let's dig into today's Q&A. This is with Timas. And Timas had a question about a knee orientation that is actually quite common that I think gets misunderstood because of the way that it's described. So in many cases, things that get described as a varus knee. So varus knee is traditionally thought of as an imaginary frontal plane representation, which again misleads us as to what the appropriate resolution would be for situations where people might be painful in that situation. And what we have to understand is a series of turns. So it's a series of twists, some in the bone, some at the joint level. And we actually go through that description here with Timus. A lot of folks think that when they see this representation, there's really nothing they can to do, say, oh, well, we've got bony changes, et cetera. But if we do understand what we're looking at, so if we have a better modeling of this representation, we can select better interventions and actually make some changes in those needs, as you can see right here, if my technology is appropriate. There's a lot of things that we can do here if we have a better representative model. So thank you teamers for this question. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman.gmail.com, askbillhartman.gmail.com. We will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everyone have an outstanding Monday and I will see you tomorrow.

And again, it's essentially a reduction in the influence of gravity. We're going to start with foot contacts. So what we want to do is think about being right foot heavy if we're going to move somebody straight back on that right side. We're going to keep them right foot heavy and be biasing them back into the right. The way we're going to do that is keep the weight along the inside of the right foot. If you think about putting pressure on the first metatarsal head and then moving the center of gravity back towards the right heel, that's going to start to move you in the correct direction. If we apply a little bit of pressure on the left first metatarsal head under these circumstances with the right foot back, what we're going to get is a perfect representation where everything's going to move us back into the delay strategy on the right side. The angle of pull is going to follow right along that line between the first metatarsal head and the medial heel on the right side. Exhale on the exertion so we get the breathing mechanics to match the axial skeletal mechanics. That would be step one, so that's going to start to move us back on the right. The way you're going to know is you're actually going to recapture that right hip internal rotation under those circumstances. Now we still have the situation where we have a sacrum that is oriented to the right, and so we want a left-facing sacrum under these circumstances. The reason that we want to do this is we're going to put the base of that sacrum on the right side, we're going to push that forward so it's actually squared to the front, without the late propulsive strategy that was initially applied to the pelvis. And so now we're just going to flip flop our stance. And what I would suggest that you do is instead of having that direct line of pull down that line on the right, you simply take a step to your left. And so now we're going to pull down on an oblique angle. So that line of pull is going to change its direction—from a straight back to an upper right to a lower left. So we're going to aim for the inside edge of that left medial heel with our angle of pull. As far as our foot contacts, you're going to apply pressure to the medial heel first, that's going to ensure that we're getting the appropriate angle of pull, then apply pressure to the right heel and then the first metatarsal head, and what you're going to feel is you're going to feel that pressure against the backside of the pelvis that's going to start to push the right sacral base forward to square to the front.

If this is like the middle of middle propulsion and this is like my highest force and this is maximum IR and I go out here, that's more relative motion. It's just not full relative motion.

But it's just like taking a step forward, my friend. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand, and it is perfect. All right. A busy Monday. Quick housekeeping. iFashion University members. The Q&A from last week is posted and ready for your viewing. If you're not a member of iFashion University, you can go to ifashionuniversity.com and get signed up there. I'm going to dig right into today's Q&A. This is with Misha. Misha has some questions about rolling. One of the things you want to recognize about rolling, it is a form of propulsion. So it's going to follow the same rules. So we have the shape change. We have yielding actions that create delays. We have overcoming actions that create the advancement. We have an early, a middle, and a late representation. Keep in mind that when we're rolling, we're rolling the axial skeleton. So pay attention to what the axial skeleton is doing. Try not to get distracted by the extremities as many people do when we talk about things like walking as well. But so remember, rolling is propulsion. Okay. If you would like to participate in a 15 minute consultation, please go to askbillhartmanedgymail.com and put '15 minutes consultation' in the subject line. And we'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everyone have an outstanding Monday. I will see you tomorrow.

every time you come into the gym. So you warm up, you work up to your training max. Based on that training max, that's how you calculate the percentages for the day. So you're actually creating a representation of how tired they are. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. Coming off a great weekend. We wrapped up Intensive 14 yesterday, kind of in a little bit of a catch-up recovery mode today, but feeling really, really good about it. Housekeeping by Fast University members. We have call at 1pm Eastern Standard Time today. So be looking for that. The link is already up on ifastuniversity.com. If you're not a member of ifastuniversity.com, please go there now and get yourself signed up so you can join us for the call at 1pm. All right. So digging into today's Q&A. This was with Lalo. And it came off one of the coffee and coaches conference calls. And we started off talking about a performance-related indicator in regards to whether someone is sort of utilizing connective tissues efficiently in a vertical jump and how we would identify that. But we drifted into a situation where we started discussing elements of fatigue and how we could monitor that. And there are certainly many ways to do that. And there are plenty of gadgets out that are available to us that can help us with that. But oftentimes in real time, so when we're actually in the gym, are there ways that we can monitor these things? And I would say, yes, there are. So something as simple as creating a five point scale of how do you feel today can actually be very, very useful. So the perception of fatigue can matter. So if I have an athlete that comes in and says, oh, I'm a one out of five, then we might need to reconsider what we had planned for training that day. And he comes in a five out of five, then then maybe it's time to up the game a little bit as it were. Rating of technique is an important one and this is an ongoing thing that we use in the gym all the time as a coach is your monitoring technique of your athlete and if we start to see a technical breakdown then we can identify the fact that okay so maybe we overshot the intensity a little bit or they're starting to accumulate fatigue and it's time to shut it down and move on to the next activity or end the workout for today. In combination with that we can use the athlete's perception of exertion. So how hard does something feel? So the big question would be after you perform a set, it's like how hard was that?

So what we don't want to do is turn people like a refrigerator when we're trying to reestablish movement. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. This is going to be a busy week. The intense 14 starts this week. It's actually on Thursday. So I'm looking forward to that. So let's dig right into today's Q&A. This is with Charlie. Charlie's fairly new. I saw him sneaking in on one of the coffee and coaches kind of what's called last week. So he's had a few exposures and he's figuring some stuff out on his own, which is great. But he asked some really good foundational questions in this Q&A that I think a lot of people are going to benefit from. We touched on foundational archetypes. We touched on rate oblique orientation, dirty measures on the table. So we talked a little bit about that, about how these things can change using the table as your constraint and point of reference. So very important call probably for a lot of people. I think you'll benefit. If you'd like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com, askbillhartman at gmail.com, put 15-minute consultation in the subject line, and please include your question in the email. And we will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, happy intensive week, and I'll see you tomorrow. All right, Charlie, we got the video rolling. The clock has started. What is your question?

I have a constraint. I am here to solve someone's problem that they came to see me for. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, coming off a very solid weekend. Looking forward to the new week here. Quick housekeeping. IFAST University members, we have a Zoom call at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Please join us for that. If you're not on IFASTU, go to ifastuniversity.com. Get yourself signed up so you can join us on those calls. Okay. Now, let's dig into today's Q&A. This is with Victor. We've talked with Victor before. Very interesting question though. So there are situations that we run into where we have relatively unchangeable constraints. So in this case, we had, we were talking about a patient that had a very large abdomen. So internal adipose gets in the way, it takes up space. It prevents things from moving as we would like it to move. So for instance, you can't descend diaphragm when you've got adipose tissue in the way. Move an infrastructural angle the way you might want to move under those circumstances. So what do you do? And so we talked a little bit about that so this is actually probably very useful video for a lot of clinicians. Especially for dealing with folks that are in pain because sometimes we have to do some things that are a little counterintuitive and bias a window of opportunity or bias some time to where we can actually work towards normal relative motions. So again, I think this will be a really good one for you all. If you would like to participate in a 15 minute consultation, please go to askbillhardman at gmail.com. Put 50-minute consultation in the subject line so we don't delete it. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. I'll see you guys at 2 p.m. IFSU people and have a great Monday. All right. Clock has started. Video is rolling. Victor, what is your question?

So you know you've got an anti-orientation on both sides. You know it's more on the right. That's the right oblique representation. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Coming off a great weekend. Looking forward to another busy week. 17 days out from Intensive 14. So starting to get excited about that. So let's go ahead and dig right into today's Q&A for Monday. This is with Kyle and I talked to Kyle over the weekend. And we emailed back and forth a little bit on a wide ISA client that he's having a little bit of a struggle with. But we broke down a little bit about what the Raido Bleak is. So let me just show you real quick on the pelvis. When we get a compressive strategy, somebody that is a wide ISA turns on a much flatter oblique angle. And so when they get pushed forward from the left side, you get compression here. And then you start to see this elevation of the left side of the pelvis. So they're turning actually on an oblique axis. So it's much more oblique than if we saw somebody with a narrow ISA that's a much flatter turn because they're turning on a more vertical axis. But we've got the layered strategies on top of that as well that we have to manage. So the superficial concentric orientation creates some interference as well. And so we broke this down with Kyle. And then we talked about strategies for training this individual. So we really want to kind of step by step through this. And then we also established a KPI for Kyle to track things. So he doesn't delay people down on a table and measure them. He can just use some of his gym strategies to identify when he's making progress. So, very useful for those of you that do not do table tests and spend your time in the gym. So, if you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to Ask Bill Hartman at gmail.com. Ask Bill Hartman at gmail.com. Put a 15-minute consultation in the subject line, and we'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, and I'll see you tomorrow. All right. Video's rolling. Clock has started. What is your question?

I would caution you against thinking that there's only a way or there's only two ways. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. This is very exciting. This is the Intensive 13 Week. Always look forward to these. Looking forward to joining a great group of people in the purple room and evolving the model another level. For those of you on IFAS University, we're going to have a content update today. So be looking for that. If you're not on IFAS University, go to ifasuniversity.com. You can get signed up there. Today's Q&A comes from Larry, who is an IFAS University member and he had some questions in regards to how we're coaching the some breathing activities depending on the wide versus narrow archetypes. So remember that when we have a narrow ISA archetype we have an axial skeleton that is biased towards inhalation with a compensatory exhalation strategy superimposed and then for the wide ISAs we have an exhaled axial skeleton with the superimposition of the inhaled strategy. So we have to consider the initial conditions whenever we're going to be coaching somebody through an activity, especially when we're talking about superimposing the breathing.

It's easier if you turn his toes out. Yeah.

Let's rethink the performance foot. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, almost as perfect as the Intensive 12 went this weekend. It was fabulous. Had a great group of people in there. The neural coffee was flowing. Questions were great. The model evolved. We talked about things that we'd never talked about before at any previous Intensive, so that was really, really cool. I am looking forward to Intensive 13 so much. I think we had about five weeks. We're about five weeks out from that. So again, looking forward to that. We'll probably get one done in August. I'll let you guys know about the dates on that one. Quick housekeeping. IFAS University. We have a Q&A call on Zoom at 1pm Eastern Standard Time. So don't forget about that. If you are not signed up for IFAS University, I suggest you do it very, very quickly so you can join us on that call. So over the weekend, obviously very busy with the intensive, dug into the Q&A email and there was a foot question in there and we talked about feet over the weekend. So I thought it'd be really cool to do an encore presentation of the performance foot video that we did way back in November. Very, very useful in regards to perspective and some really good information to sort of get you to look at feet just a little bit differently. So we're gonna cut away to that here in just a second. If you would like to participate in a 15 minute consultation or you have a question, go to askbillhartman at gmail.com and leave me a question there or put 15 minute consultation in the subject line and we'll arrange a call at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday. We will cut away to the performance foot video here in just a second and I will see you tomorrow with a little bit of perspective on the performance related foot because I think it's still a little bit of a challenge for people because of some of the biases that have been created over time and some of the perspectives as to what constitutes a good performance foot versus one that is interference. And so I want us to look at this thing differently. Now, let me preface everything that I'm about to say is that performance is multifactorial. There are so many potential influences here. It's not just a foot thing. The foot is one part, but we're gonna talk about it in isolation to give you a little bit of perspective. So the things that you also probably need to consider is like, okay, what kind of an archetype are we dealing with? What are some of the proportional issues in physical structure. So the size of your thorax relative to the size of your pelvis is an influence in performance. Your proportions as far as you know the length of your axial skeleton to the length of the appendicular skeleton is an influence. Your force-to-weight ratio etc etc etc. So so again let's let's keep this in perspective, okay? The first thing we want to do then is we want to review a little bit about the simplified foot model. So we're going to go through the phases of this foot position. So our traditional heel rocker would represent this early propulsive phase. So as I bring the medial calcaneus to the ground and I get the forefoot to the ground and the toes are extended, the tibia is still behind the foot. So this is an ER position. So I still have an arch and I've got an ER tibia relative to the foot. And so that's my early propulsive foot. As I move through middle, this is where the arch is going to move down towards the ground. So this is your traditional pronation. This is tibial interrotation. So this is a lower arch. Now, here's the key element of this that I want you to understand is that the maximum force into the ground is that maximum pronation. And where that is, max propulsion is just as that medial calcaneus re-brakes from the ground and so this is actually a low position of the arch because right after that I'm going to get a bunch of concentric orientation on the plantar aspect of the foot. This is what they traditionally call that windlass effect and I'm going to crank that sucker back into an externally rotated position right and that is traditionally considered this high propulsive foot with the force application came just prior to that. And so this is the demonstration of what happens after that force production. And so when we talk about a performance related foot, this is why we're going to see lower arches on a lot of these really, really high performance. And so people look at these feet, and they go, oh, these are really crappy feet because pronation has always been described as this accommodative foot position, which is not untrue. But the highest force production also happens in maximum pronation. So that's where our max propulsion is. So when we look at feet like this, it can be a little confusing as to why we would see these low arches. But what they're actually doing is it's a time saver that allows these athletes to get to maximum propulsion much faster than what we would consider our non-athletic population. So that's what they're representing. Now, we've got some subtle differences between these low arched feet as well that we can talk about. If we have someone that is closer to maximum propulsion than, say, another athlete, what you're typically going to see under these circumstances is you'll see, if we were to make a comparison in performance, we would see a better broad jump than vertical jump. So it doesn't mean they're bad vertical jumpers, it just means that as a representation of where they perform the best, they are better at horizontal projection because they are so much closer to maximum propulsion than another athlete would be. And so they'll have the quicker first step. They'll have great acceleration. But what you're going to measure, to throw them on the table, they're going to be biased more towards external rotation. So remember, as I break that foot, I get this concentric orientation that's going to move me quicker towards the ER. So what happens is they have a reduced yielding strategy, which again, that dampens their ability to produce a vertical jump, but it also improves their horizontal projection. They're going to have limited hip flexion. They'll probably have a limited straight leg raise, et cetera, that's associated with this extra rotation bias and a reduced yielding strategy. If I move you back just slightly from max propulsion, I have now just increased the amount of time that you have between where you are as a representation of your center of gravity and maximum propulsion. So in doing so now, I've actually increased the time that you have to produce a yielding strategy. These are the people that will have a better vertical jump than broad jump as a representation. But they're going to be a little bit slower in regards to change of direction. But they're going to have better top speed because their vertical projections are better. They're going to have slightly less external rotation bias. So they're going to have a little bit more of an internal rotation capability than, say, our guys that are better horizontal projectors. And so they'll have a little bit better hip flexion, a little bit better straight leg raise. So if we look at a couple representations of feet, I'll try to show you the subtle little difference. So what we have right there is a pair of feet that can run a 4-4-40. So he is very, very good at acceleration. He is very, very good at change of direction. So this is a Division I football player, and he played four years of high level Division I football. This other representation right here it looks very very similar but this is a better vertical jumper than a horizontal projector and so this is actually a very very high level basketball player and so he's got a better vertical jump than horizontal projection and and so again subtle differences as to how close these guys are to to their maximum propulsion phase. Now, let me show you another pair of feet that don't jump very well and not very fast, but also on a very high level basketball player. So this individual has a much higher arch. He has positioned much more into an earlier phase, so he's a little bit slower. He doesn't jump as high and he's not as fast. It doesn't mean that he can't play high level basketball. It just means that he's going to rely on other things. This person also happens to be exceptionally tall. And so again, we have all of these representations. So again, everything's multifactorial from a performance perspective. There are many different ways that these people can perform. But what we want to start to think about is like, okay, I have these different feet. They're going to be better at different things. And it is one element that supports this high level of performance. Now, let's take this into the clinic. So I can take these same concepts and I can start to look at my, quote unquote, normal people from a very, very similar perspective. So when I see a pair of feet that might be more pronated, so the arch is lower to the ground, I might have this person that is struggling with gravity. And so they're in a situation where they're constantly producing a higher force into the ground because they're just not managing gravity as well. He will have the compensatory strategies that we'll typically see. He'll have a lot of concentric muscle orientation, and therefore a lot of limitations in range of motion. Under those circumstances, we probably want to move him away from maximum propulsion to give him the capacity to move through his extra rotation to intro rotation strategies, and this allows him to move away from the ground to reduce the concentric orientation and then restore a lot more of the active range of motion that he's missing. So again, it's just a matter of perspective of what we're looking at, but feet are always a great representation of this. They're very confirming as far as some of your measures that you're going to find up the chain, so to speak. So some of your top-down influences are going to be represented in the feet. If you can't manage this from a top-down influence, then it may be it is time to do something about this at the foot. So maybe this is your manual therapies for the foot. Maybe this is selecting activities that are specifically designed to improve the representation of sensation from the ground up. Maybe this is the person that you put in an orthotic as a solution to give them the capacity of adaptability. Performance is an intentional reduction of adaptability to create a higher level of output. Whereas when we're trying to make people more adaptable, such as the rehab situation, now we need to take away some of that reduction in adaptability, restore it to give them the ability to rest, reduce concentric orientation and then restore ranges of motion.

So my question was regarding foot force production we talked about before, but I was confused when it comes to sprinting, where they tell you that your toes are always on the ground and your heel never touches, but that seems like you're still producing max force.

So, let's talk about what the orientation is that we're typically seeing under these circumstances and then we can kind of, as you asked for, we will unpack this to a degree. If I'm looking at the orientation of the acetabulum and if I look at the ligament to structure of the hip has this cool little spiral kind of an orientation to it. And so the orientation in itself is if I try to turn this thing into internal rotation, it creates a constraint because it's already twisted in that direction to a certain degree. So this is one of the dirty little secrets about lower extremities. is they're already twisted into internal rotation. That's why the dorsum of your foot is on top when it should be on the bottom. And so this is the twist. So if I try to twist this farther, I hit the constraint. But if I look at orientation of this anomaly, I can actually put this in a position where I actually untwist the orientation of the hip. And all I have to do is move it up and over top of the femur. So this is going to be an anterior orientation. So I will have traditional extension of the lumbar spine on the side where you get the magnified measure. And so that's going to take this pelvis forward and over top of the femur. And if I take it far enough, I'm going to start to pick up internal rotation because essentially what I'm doing is I'm untwisting the capsule and then I take my measurement and then that picks up all that laxity. It's not laxity. It's just slack in the capsule created by position. I take that up and then I hit the constraint somewhere about 60 because I'm using a dead guy zero position. So a nice representation that I can use is sort of this ringing out the towel concept. So if I look at the twisted towel as if this was the ligamentous structure of the hip, when I'm moving my intro rotation it's already twisted and so there's my constraint to intro rotation. But if I reorient the pelvis where it's over top of the femur and I actually start to untwist the towel first, then I have all of this slack that I can take up in the hip capsule, which is going to give me my magnified internal rotation. So remember that I have other internal rotation measures to compare against to make sure that I am dealing with this orientation problem. So for instance, if I lack hip traditional hip extension or ADduction. So traditional hip extension and adduction are internal rotation measures. So if I have a deficit in either one of those, then I know that my magnified internal rotation measure is most likely associated with this orientation. I also have my iterations to compare against as well.

Every system fails. And that's the thing you also want to understand. It's like the minute you marry yourself to a system, you have just capped your capabilities. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. Okay. huge gigantic week coming up. So it is birthday week. We got a big show on Thursday, big party. I got people coming in from all over the place from out of town. We got a big crowd staying here at Casa de Hartman. So I'm really looking forward to that but we will continue with our process and we will have today's Q&A and today's Q&A is with Vic and Vic is actually going to be an attendee to the Intensive 12 and so I also talked to Vic a little bit on IFAS University and we've talked to him before a little bit but Vic came back with a really cool question. a little bit different than what we typically talk about, but it's more towards the mentorship side of things and I think you'll find it valuable because we covered when to even seek out assistance or a mentor. Let me see, we got a couple notes here. Negative influences of belief systems. systems are potentially useful, but all systems will eventually fail. So you gotta keep that in mind. How to formulate a question using analogy to learn new information, the limitations of explicit information versus the tacit knowledge. That's a huge one because I think people think that just because they can regurgitate information, they actually know something and they're providing value when actually there is zero value when everybody has access to the same information. So, I hope you will find this useful. If you are interested in participating in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillharmonedgmail.com, askbillharmonedgmail.com, put 15-minute consult in the subject line, and we will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Don't forget, all these videos are up on the YouTube channel, so go to the YouTube channel and subscribe. Please make use of that. Everybody have a terrific Monday, and we will see you tomorrow. We are recording and clock has started. Vic, what is your question?

So you take a full beer, right? Don't pop it. Don't pop the top on it. I know you have to buy canned beer because you're a student. You have no money. So, so you, but you can stand on a full beer can because you're compressing the, because the fluid inside holds you up. You, you chug your beer, put it down on the ground. You go and it crushes like a grape. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and It is perfect. All right. Wow, got a busy Monday coming up. Quick reminder for those of you that are IFAST university members, we have a conference call today at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, so please be there for the live call if you can. Those are always great, great questions. Speaking of questions, today's Q&A is with Victor, and we covered a lot of ground in this call. A couple of main elements though was the influence of body position on the table as how it can change the perception of some of your measures and why you might see certain things in certain positions as you change position on the table and then why do we restrict relative motion to produce force and how this actually influences things. So I give a couple of examples that are hopefully useful under those circumstances. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartmanedgymail.com, askbillhartmanedgymail.com, put a 15-minute consultation in the subject line so we can arrange that at our mutual convenience. Got to run, got a busy day. You guys have a great Monday, and I'll see you tomorrow. So the camera is rolling. The clock has started. Victor. I've been calling you, Jenny, this whole time. What is your question?

Because the deeper orientation requires that the sacrum move and the lumbar spine moves. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Strong Monday, coming off of a cool day yesterday. So yesterday was Mother's Day. My mom is 88. We had the entire family together for the first time, I think in over a year. So that was kind of cool and good for her. So I hope you had the opportunity to appreciate your mom. Little housekeeping, iFastU Q&A from last week is posted for those of you who are iFast University members. If you're not a member, please go to ifastuniversity.com and get yourself signed up for that. Let's dig right into today's Q&A. Today's Q&A's with Jordan. Jordan is a regular on the Thursday morning, 6 a.m. Thursday morning, coffee and coaches conference calls. He's also a physical therapy student. And so he had a really good question in regards to some of the narrow ISA foundational archetype representations. So gaining some clarity with that, we also kind of led into how we may influence some of the early and late representations of external rotation. And we made reference to actually one of the squat activities that we used to sort of recapture that. So again, adding clarity to the archetype and then how we're going to move into those early and late representations. So very cool. If you still have questions about those concepts, this is going to be a great call for you if you would like to participate in a 15 minute Q&A with yours truly, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com, askbillhartman at gmail.com, put 15 minute consultation in the subject line so I don't delete it, and we will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, and I'll see you tomorrow.

I start doing this right oblique and I can keep shoving that right oblique forward. I have space that I can do that. I can lose all of my internal rotation by shoving you all the way forward.

So the guys that have been power lifters don't all benefit from the same thing. They shouldn't all cycle through bands and chains because some of them are already pre-designed to be really, really good at certain things and then they're not so good at other things. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Looking forward to a great week. Pretty fired up. Couple things going on. Obviously, if you're following me on Instagram, then you know that I sent out the golden tickets to the Intensive 12 last night. And so I already got a few responses back on that. We're gonna start prep this week as soon as everybody gets their acceptance back. And so I'm very excited about getting that rolling. If you didn't get in this time, keep trying. I've had several people that have applied numerous times before they got in. Next one will be in July, just as a hint. IFSU members, check out ifesuniversity.com today. The Q&A from last week is posted. Okay, today's Q&A is with Manuel. You're gonna love this one, I think. Especially if you work with power lifters, we've been on this kind of power lifting kick as of late, getting a lot of questions in regards to some of the methods that they use. So we talked about the difference between bands, chains, and weight releasers as to who qualifies for what, when to use the right tool at the right time, and then the differences. Again, I think you're going to really, really like this Q&A for today. So have an outstanding Monday. Have a terrific week. Get a good start. And I will see you. Retorting. And whoops. Time has started. What is your question?

If I had to reduce ground contact time as I accelerate, moving into an elastic resistance is probably an ineffective strategy. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, Monday. Looking forward to a great week. Kind of start off with a couple of housekeeping things. If you're on iFast University, we have an iFast University Q&A call at 1pm Eastern time. So be ready for that. If you're not on iFast University, please go to iFastUniversity.com and get yourself signed up so you can participate in those calls and in the private discussion group as well. The intensive applications are closed. Obviously, if you're paying any attention to that quick story, went to dinner with mom Hartman over the weekend, came back and had more applications in the email box than it usually takes about a day or two to accumulate and we did it in about three hours. I had to close that very, very quickly. So I apologize for this view that did not get a chance to apply. But we got, like I said, we got way more than we normally do. So yeah, a little bit of work to do on that. We're gonna try to get through this as quickly as possible. So I can notify the people that do get to attend. Keep in mind that there's only eight people that get to come. It's important that we keep it very, very small, thus the intensive. So again, appreciate you all there. Today's Q&A is with Greg speaking of the intensive. Greg was an intensive attendee and a participant in the current group with the intensive folks that is ongoing. So I know Greg a little and we got a chance to talk over the weekend about some elastic resistance issues about how I would typically use it, why I think there might be some negative secondary consequences associated with using band resistance. We have to be judicious in our approach when we're using elastic resistance because of the increasing force as you obviously elongate that. So Greg and I got into that a little bit. So this is going to be interesting for those of you that do like to use elastic resistance because there may be some things that you're doing that are actually creating some interference. If you would like to participate in a 15 minute consultation, please go to askbillhartmanedgmail.com, askbillhartmanedgmail.com, put 15 minute consultation in the subject line so we don't delete it, and we will organize that and arrange that at our earliest mutual convenience. Have an outstanding Monday, enjoy the call, and I will see you guys tomorrow.

Rather than me saying, here's an answer. It's like, what if you discovered it when you figure something out for yourself? Do you ever forget it? Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Looking forward to a great week. It's going to be a busy Monday, so we're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. Q&A today is with Vic, and Vic is a member of IFESTU, and so I've talked to him on several occasions, but he had a really, really good series of questions in regards to mentorship, and if you've followed anything that I've done in the past, you know that I'm a big fan of the mentorship apprenticeship model. In fact, I would consider it essential in the physical therapy, rehab, fitness industries. A lot of people are trying to get by on just explicit information, the stuff that you can write down or the stuff that you can talk about when the reality is this is an experiential profession that relies heavily on the tacit side of knowledge. And so again, the mentorship model becomes essential. So we talked about the value of mentors, when mentors are valuable and when they are not, the interference associated with your own biases, answering your own questions, embracing the struggle as we would say, developing your filters as to how you're going to process information and think critically. So again, really, really good questions from Vic. So I enjoyed this call a great deal. It's probably one of my favorites so far. And I think you'll find it valuable as well. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, go to askbillhartmanedgmail.com. Don't forget to go to the YouTube channel today and subscribe so you get those videos first and get notified on those as well. Have a great Monday and I will see you tomorrow.

So here's the thing that you have to respect when you go from like a standing representation to a supine representation on the table because they're not the same. Okay? So there's a couple of potential things that could happen. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. It's really good, I can't wait to finish that. Okay, busy Monday. We're gonna dig right into this quick reminder. For those of you that are IFS University members, we have a Q&A today at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. So please join me for that if you're an IFSU member. If you're not an IFSU member, why not? Probably time to get signed up for that. Okay, we'll dig right into today's Q&A with Kyle. And I've talked to Kyle before. Okay, that's a really good question. I think it's a common question for a lot of people when we're talking about the superimposition of internal rotation on top of external rotation. It's a difficult concept to grasp because the previous model has been this imaginary zero point that exists somewhere based on dead guy anatomy where you have ER on one side and IR on the other. The reality is that they are superimposed and if we can understand this concept then we can understand the sequencing of events that is required for us to make these changes, especially when we're trying to restore relative movement. So thank you Kyle for asking this question. We also talk a little bit about the sequencing of events, about how to resolve some of these superficial compensatory strategies that's near the end of this discussion. So please hang in there for that. It'll be up on YouTube later today. Don't forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel as well so you can be the first to get all of the new videos as they are posted up there. If you have any questions, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com. If you would like to participate in a 15 minute consult, then please put that in the subject line so I do not delete your email by accident. So again, askbillhartman at gmail.com and then we'll see you all tomorrow. And we are rolling and the clock is running.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. That is quite good actually. All right, so we had a pretty solid weekend. Looking forward to another great week. Got lots of mentorship calls this week. So that's gonna be fun, I really enjoyed those. Which reminds me, if you would like to get on a 15 minute consultation, please send me an email at askbillhartman at gmail.com, askbillhartman at gmail.com, and we'll set that up. which leads us into today's Q&A. I got a chance to talk to Greg, and Greg has some interesting influences that I think are going to help a lot of people through this discussion. So he was kind of to share some medical history. He actually had a sternotomy where they basically slice open your sternum as a youth. And so we talked about the potential influences there. Greg is also a musician. and a physical therapist. So we have some really good thinking and we have some performance related influences that come into play in this discussion as well. And so all of these things need to be considered when we're trying to make changes in movement capabilities. So thank you, Greg, for your participation and for sharing. Like you did, it's going to help a lot of people. So enjoy today's Q&A. And remember, if you have a question, go to askbillharmonageemail.com, askbillharmonageemail.com, set up your 15-minute console, and we'll get that taken care of. And I'll see you guys tomorrow. Block is running. Go ahead. Fire away.

So what do you do about the graph site pain in an ACL rehab situation? Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. Okay, man, it was a quick weekend. Got a busy week coming up. So let's dig straight into today's Q&A. Today's Q&A is a discussion with Zach and Zach is currently managing a late stage ACL reconstruction situation. It's a revision so they took a contralateral patellar tendon graft and that is actually the site of the current symptoms that they're working to resolve and so this covers a lot of things like the influence of the archetype why there would be ongoing load on the knee and then we talk about strategies to alleviate these symptoms. So it's a really good discussion. Zach is on point. He's a regular on the coffee and coach's conference calls. So I've gotten to talk to him on several occasions. But I think you'll find this very, very useful. If you would like to participate in a 15 minute consult, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com. Put 15 minute consult in the subject line so I don't delete it. And I would be happy to talk with you. And you get to get your base up on social media. So there you go. Have an outstanding Monday. Have a great week. And I will see you guys tomorrow. All right. Clock has started. Go ahead.

If you're trying to figure out the difference between eccentric and concentric orientation or yielding and overcoming, this will be a good video for you. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, coming off a solid weekend. Had my first combatives. I'm very excited about that. I survived it. Didn't get beat up too bad. So it was kind of fun. I'm looking forward to a big week this week. Today's Q&A is with Ryan. So I got a chance to talk to Ryan. I've known Ryan for a while. Ryan's a great coach down in Kentucky. So if you're ever near peak fitness and sports training, I suggest you stop by and see him. It'll be worth your efforts. Ryan is kind of a superhuman when it comes to picking up heavy things. He's incredibly strong. He only weighs about 200 pounds, but I think he's got a troubled body weight dead left or something like that. So maybe even more than that. The Q&A covers a lot of review concepts that I think are still somewhat confusing for people, and I understand that. So we talk about eccentric concentric orientations, yielding and overcoming actions, and we start to put them into some context. We talk about cutting, a little bit of powerlifting, and some individualization of training. So again, I think this is a really, really good review call for a lot of people. to help clarify some of these concepts. So if you have any questions, or you'd like to participate in a 15 minute console, go to askbillhartman at gmail.com, askbillhartman at gmail.com, and I will see you guys tomorrow. We are rolling, clock is starting. Fire, your question, young man.

So my question is about early and late propulsion as it relates to the squat and the split squat. So from watching a couple of your videos, as far as I understand, in the beginning of the squat, at the top part of the squat, that will be late propulsion. And then the bottom part of the squat, there will be early propulsion. Correct. Right? And then, so, I guess, my question is, first of all, if somebody needs to get early propulsion and they don't have access to mid propulsion, there's no way you can put them at the bottom of the squat. They're not going to be able to get there. So the better duration will be a split squat.