You sort of hold onto a starting condition.

If we have the foot flat, it would be more posterior lower. If we elevate it, it would be more inferior on the sacral base.

OK. Yeah. Which one is of higher complexity?

No. Okay. That's what would happen, right? Hmm. Yeah.

Both of those representations are ER bias. I use the word bias because ER and IR are both present at the same time. A late representation has more IR represented than the early one does, because the early representation is accumulating IR. The late representation is pushing IR into the ground because you have to push IR into the ground; otherwise you don't get to the right side in a right-handed golfer.

Right.

Yeah, so it may be. So you think about the difference between the two squats where you're going to have a stronger yield in the front squat than you would in the back squat. Take that yield away so let's just jam them into a late representation and now you've got the equivalent right so there's no differential between the two and so what they're representing they're they're trying to front squat with a back squat technique but with the additional compression, like I said, they just don't have the differential and the gradient, so that's why the squats would be the same. Here's the interesting thing. If you can get some of the expansion back, you'll probably see both squats go up but at different rates, like you'll see like the back squat will increase and at a higher, it'll go faster, right? Because they'll have a bigger differential or, or they're literally squatting at their potential. And then you're, you know, kind of stuff.

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A split second.

OK. So do you have a squat picture of her?

I lost like one second there.

Well, see.

Yeah. My concern is that she's going to end up with a knee issue as well.

Yep, yep, yep.

Go to the pelvis. If I had a rudder on a boat, which bone in the pelvis would be my rudder? And if I had a bone in the pelvis that was a paddle, what bone would be the paddle?

Yeah.

Yeah. Because you have two different knee positions. They're not the same.

But the fact that you can identify that you're way ahead of the game. Good morning, happy Wednesday. I have neuro coffee in hand, and it is perfect. All right, well, we are back after a few days off—very restful, saw some great friends, great people, had a great time. So we are back in action, back on schedule. Housekeeping items: today is Wednesday, that means tomorrow is Thursday, that means tomorrow at 6 a.m. we are back on the coffee and coaching conference call. Please join us, grab some coffee, great Q&A, great people. I think this is call like 118 or something like that coming up on Thursday. So again, please join us. A quick reminder for those of you that are members of iFastUniversity, we have a makeup call on Saturday at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. If you're not a member of iFastUniversity, please go to iFastUniversity.com, get yourself signed up, and join us for that call on Saturday. Digging into today's Q&A, this is with Nicky. Nicky was moving, digging through some old books, and she came across a book called The Immense Health Big Book of Exercises that I contributed to many, many years ago. I believe it was 10, 12 years ago. And she was asking whether this program was something that I would still consider effective today. And I think from a principled standpoint and from a programming standpoint, probably would, but probably would approach this a little bit differently. And I think this is one of those things that we have to understand that we're going to evolve over time, and as our reasoning improves, as our tools improve, that we should expect to see changes. So if you look back five, 10 years at some of your programs, you may find that you're doing a little bit of eye rolling and a little bit of forehead slapping every once in a while because you would consider yourself quite a bit more involved in your thought process and reasoning. So I think we should all experience that to some degree. As you progress through time, I think the differences that you would expect would be much, much less, considering the fact that your reasoning should improve over time. This is also one of the reasons, though, why early in your career you want to consider participating in a mentorship or apprenticeship situation so you can actually borrow reasoning from someone that has a lot more experience—it's going to accelerate your process and save you a lot of time. So, Nikki, thanks for the memories, thanks for a little bit of a chuckle, but then also thanks for being on the call as usual. Everybody, have an outstanding Wednesday. I'll see you tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. for the coffee and coaches conference call.

Yes.

Then I start to move through these excursions. What's the rule? What's the rule when you're performing short arc rolls? Do you try to feel hard stretch? No. No, why not? Because I don't want to create an influence of increased tension associated with pulling on connective tissue. But that's why we use the pressure and not pull because the response is going to be different. So if I pull on connective tissues, my muscles tend to want to tense up and protect me. Right. So if I create pressure, then there tends to be this expansive quality associated with that because it's going to promote more e-centric orientation associated with it. So if somebody was doing a massage on you, okay, so they're doing like efflerage. So they're using pressure. And so they're using pressure to influence a favorable response in regards to the muscle activity. So they're trying to tune down muscle activity with pressure. If I wanted to ramp it up, I would yank on something. Yeah. Thus the failure of static stretching in regards to changing joint orientation.

Okay, good. So that's what our split squat looks like, okay? So I can't speak intelligently about why they would not have it in the later representation because there may be something that they're doing that I would observe that would help me identify this. However, you do have a big clue in regards to where they're experiencing the knee pain and in which leg. So you have a situation where as they're moving into a more internally rotated position where they have to absorb more energy. So as you descend into the split squat, that is an early IR representation, which means that internal rotation is coming up from the ground towards the pelvis to make the shape change. And so you have an interference at the knee that is not allowing this internal rotation to propagate proximally. It is stopping at the knee, so to speak. It is interfering at the knee. Most likely what you have is you do not have the internally rotated representation at the knee at the time of the discomfort. OK. And so this could be the foot position. This could be the fact that the tibia is not able to internally rotate sufficiently relative to the femur to access the internally rotated position, right? Or the top-down interference. So you have ER that comes down from the top, you have IR that goes up from the bottom, and you may have too much of an ER representation that is not allowing that shape change to occur. And so once again, you have the interference below that level and it's stopping at the knee. So again, what I would do, Matt, is I would make sure that, number one, you've got access to the appropriate foot position. You've got to make sure that you've got the tibial IR available to you. And you've got to make sure that you've got the hip IR available to you.

Guess nothing.

So I want to look at just a deep squat all the way, and then just when they're laying down.

Yeah, useful.

You mean other than the meniscus tear in the back pain? You mean other than the meniscus tear in the back pain? She doesn't have any history?

I guess starting at the medial heel and the...

What is that? Like why would they choose that as the next strategy? Well, what they're trying to do is to acquire more compensatory ER so they can have access to a space in front of them. Yeah. Exactly. It's like, it's like, okay, bad strategy. You just compressed the bejesus out of them, right? So you did not get the, the requisite expansion that you were hoping to get. Yeah, in that sense. So it's a leading resistance. So you're giving them resistance to produce a desired outcome. You overshot. You gave them too much, or they never had access to that space in the first place. So again, it was just a bad choice under that circumstance. Again, you get to be the good coach, and you get to make that decision. But all you're talking about, and this concept goes back to PNF in the 1940s, like this is a leading resistance. We're using, we're not using resistance to create an overload of high force production. All we're trying to do is give them a sensation to guide the, the, the behavior to produce the outcome too much load under any circumstance. It's just like we were talking about at the beginning of the call. It's like, all you're going to do is you're just slowly going to take away space.

Anybody in the call ever coached a hook line activity? Okay. You ever put a ball between somebody's knees and then you set it up and they drop the ball? Seriously, like you put it between their knees and they hold onto this and you set up the rest of the exercise and they immediately drop the ball. Like they drop it, like it falls out from between their knees. Well, you just told them to hold onto the ball. But what happened was, as they're posteriorly orienting, they're actually increasing the amount of proximal ER, the ball drops because they're actually separating their knees instead of holding it together. Now, if you held onto the ball and you continued to posteriorly orient, you're increasing the proximal ER. And again, they're trying to squeeze the ball, but they're squeezing it from proximal to distal with ER. They're not creating the IR representation from the ball towards the pelvis. Do you understand?

Right.

You see it. So we keep her, we're capturing the foot cues. We're putting load into the ground. So she learns how to IR into the ground on the medial aspect of the foot, but we can never take her so far into the compensatory strategy because then we're just reinforcing what she's trying to eliminate in the first place. So we change the program gradually over time. We don't have to change the exercises at all. We just change the orientation of her feet, which is the change in the program as she captures the internal rotation. Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, well, it is Wednesday. That means that tomorrow's Thursday. That means tomorrow 6 a.m. As usual, coffee and coaches conference call. Grab yourself a cup of coffee. Join us for some great people, some great Q and A. We're in the hundreds now in these calls. They just keep getting better and better. So again, please join us for that. Another housekeeping item. Applicants or the attendees I should say for the Intensive 18 have been chosen. So if you did apply please check your email for that. You should have an invite in there if you were selected. Thank you all for your applications, by the way. This was one of the toughest calls on who to let come to the intensive this time. Again, we have to keep the number very, very small. Number one, got a really small room, but to keep it intense, we can only have a few people at a time. So keep applying. I'll keep doing these things as long as there's interest. All right, digging into today's Q&A. This is with Ian, and this is the back end of a discussion that that sort of led us in a direction on how we're requiring internal rotation. And so we talked about lateral slide drags, which we talked about before. And then we dip into how we would modify Romanian deadlifts to provide us with another means to capture internal rotation. We have to consider both sides of the body under all circumstances. One side might be doing something in comparison to the other side and so for us to reacquire internal rotation we have to make sure that we get number one our ground base cues and number two the influences of load and direction also will determine how we are requiring this into our rotation. So thank you Ian and everybody else prior to Ian's question that got us to where we were on this video. If you have any questions about Romanian deadlifts or lateral slide drags, just go to the YouTube channel. We've got videos on there about those as well. Everybody have an outstanding Wednesday. I will see you tomorrow morning, 6 a.m. Coffee and Coaches Conference. Go.