Because here's the thing. Have you ever seen a cadaver? OK. How well do they walk? Not at all.

Yeah. Yeah.

And she was to descend all the way into the split squat.

Is it the one March one?

Does that help you?

Right.

Does that make sense? Do you understand?

Yeah. On a first principle basis, it's just like getting more, let's say when we get to chopping, this is where I'm like, um, I'm, but this is not a question anymore. So like, we'll probably move on to the next person.

Yes, sir. Because they have difficulty managing gravity upright. And you need to make a physical change that they can't make in that upright position. I have to reorient the direction of gravity while I can't change gravity per se. So I have to change their position relative to gravity. Now they might have a mechanical advantage that will help them capture relative motions that they can't capture in an upright position. Then hopefully you train them progressively where they can actually learn to manage those forces a little bit more effectively, knowing full well that you're not going to change their physical structure sufficiently. They have to learn how to, they have to understand how they do things.

If you don't have the knee bent, you're not going to get like the, you can't propagate the waveform, right? It would stop. One second. Very important. Think about this. That's one of the reasons why some people get knee pain because they have a twist at the knee that stops it at the knee.

I guess maybe could you give advice on how you went about navigating the field?

So now if you have a narrow ISA and you want to do sled drags, what's a better representation of a sled drag for the narrows versus the wide. So wides would go sideways. What direction would your narrows go?

We're not able to produce enough compression on the sternum so that we just cannot allow the excursion at the shoulder.

Yeah. I love a Jefferson split squat, but if they don't have the turn, all you're doing is creating the orientation.

Yeah. So if you have questions about that, like, again, if there's more confusion that comes up, because I know you've been on the last few calls and stuff, if there's more confusion, let me know. Because I can speak traditional. I choke on it a little bit, and I get a little sick to my stomach, but I can still do it. Okay, so thank you. You're welcome. Zach Fendrick, I would not call that scapular retraction.

Okay. If I could take a piece of tape and grab her spine and twist the spine back in the other direction and tape it there, would that bring the foot back to its normal representation on the ground?

Good morning. Happy Thursday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. Manuel, finally, what's going on, dude? It's like you're way behind today.

But what you're seeing now, you're seeing the mechanical element of it and you're going, 'Oh, it's all the same, isn't it?' And yes, it is all the same. You don't have that many options. It looks like we do because we can do all sorts of things. Did everybody get that part? Thank you. Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. An interesting Tuesday coming up. The blind readings for the applications to the Intensive 16 start today. Hopefully have those done by the end of the week so I can get everybody notified and we can get rolling on prerequisites. So be looking for that later this week if you applied. Digging into today's Q&A, this is with Christian. Christian is working with a young athlete that's recovering from a femur fracture. The thing that I want you to draw your attention to in this Q&A, you might say that femur fracture is not really that interesting, but what I want you to pay attention to is how Christian's breaking down the movement pattern. He's doing a great job doing that. He has a very specific intention as to what he's trying to do. But we also talked about how we're going to go about arriving at solutions for activities if you understand what you're looking at. So if you have a strong representative model and you can understand what you're looking at, the exercises sort of select themselves based on the desired outcome. If we can understand what we're looking at, we know what we need to do, and then we can select better choices for activities and eliminate, even more important, eliminate interference. For instance, there's a point in this Q&A that comes up where Christian is talking about doing suitcase carries and you have an asymmetrical representation in this individual, you don't have to do the same exercises on both sides of the body. So people that are chasing some sort of right and left balance is really unnecessary, especially when you have an asymmetrical representation, which is what we're actually going to talk about. So if you've had questions about some sort of oblique orientations or how to drive more ER versus IR one side versus the other, this is going to be a great Q&A for you.

You know, sometimes I just have trouble accepting that. And I just, yeah, I mean, I'm young. I'm curious.

Right? And you talk about optimizing. So I have a little, I don't have the ear for it. So I have a little thingy that measures the vibrations of the string as I pluck the string, right? And it vibrates at a certain rate and then that tells me whether I'm above or below the E. And then I turn the little knobby thing and then that tightens and loosens the string. So I optimize to get the correct tone. Right? So it's tuned to the E, right? That's what we're talking about. So it's like, yeah, I got to have the right force production. I have to have the right muscle orientation and that's what determines whether I've got the right connective tissue stiffness. And where I'm distributing that connective tissue stiffness.

Okay.

Okay, so if I pull the, if I, okay, if I reach between your legs and I reach up behind you and I grab the back of your belt, okay? I'm in the front and I'm reaching up underneath you. I grab the back of your belt and I pull it down and back. What direction are you gonna go?

Yeah. Well, but see, but you got to combine the two. So it goes like this, right? You see it? You see where the space really is?

Exactly. Exactly.

Yeah, she's biased towards wide and she can maybe touch her knees with her fingers when she's doing a toe touch, just like that.

That's it. But I was seeing like, yeah, if I need lower posterior on the left, wouldn't I go out? So I get this rotation as well. But I'm losing the relative motions in the pelvis in the process. If I would want lower thorax expansion, like lower posterior at the back on the left, I could go out, but I should keep in mind I'm losing the relative motions in the pelvis.

You must be really careful with the way that you're representing this to me on video, okay? Because when you're rolling from in right side lying and you're rolling back into the left, do not lead with the scapula.

So it sounds to me almost a little bit like a power lifter. I mean, you gotta have just enough motion to be able to get down and get the lift.

I really think the expectation under these circumstances is that you would expect, and again it's all a matter of where is your head. If you're thinking nerves, you think nerves, right? And then you don't think about the other stuff. And if you're thinking muscles, you think muscles and then you forget about the nerves. You have to say, well what is this interaction? Like what would happen under these circumstances if I didn't have the excursion available to me, what would be the limitation? So I do it the same way. So if I have limitations in an ER measure, I know I've got a posterior compressive strategy somewhere that I need to alleviate. Based on my measures, it tells me where to go, tells me what activities to do, and then I can go back and I can actually check my neurodynamic tests as a representation of did I alleviate the concentric orientation that was causing the problem in the first place. It works really, really well.

You mentioned asymmetrical hook line in response to Alex's question. And I realized that I don't really have a good idea of how to set it up asymmetrically. So the tools in my toolbox, I have hook line with two feet and a yoga block in between the knees. I have hook line with a ball between the knees so that you can manipulate the propulsion a little bit. And I have once upon a time used elevating one of the feet on a block, like for a right oblique, bringing the right foot up to make the right side longer. I was just wondering if you could maybe elaborate on the idea of asymmetrical hook line, what to look for, and how to use it.