Perfect.

So you would maybe go to middle.

Okay. It ain't in the pelvis and the hip. Okay.

Yeah.

And it's going to be the limiting factor in your ability to acquire certain position.

Yes. I was imagining if you go a little bit backwards that you get the representation that you just showed.

It's like, this is good.

All right, so I've got a question which could be a very quick answer. So we'll see. I was reviewing some of the older videos you'd shot regarding muscle orientation and the terminology surrounding muscle orientation and connective tissue behavior. I wanted to clarify that in more recent times, I haven't heard much about using 'overcoming' and 'yielding' to describe behaviors associated with muscle activity. I'm wondering whether you've changed that recently or it just hasn't come up in discussion, because in recent times, all I've heard it used for is as a description of connective tissue behavior.

Yeah.

So I will tell you a quick story that might be helpful. When you're in high school senior year, they always ask you what you want to be when you grow up and what you want to do after you leave high school. In an interview I did, it said I was going to be a corporate attorney. I went to college with that thought process and started studying economics. I got a B in economics and had to take some other science courses at the same time, in which I got A's. The moral of the story is that I thought that was what I wanted to do, and had I pursued that path, I would have been miserable because it wasn't involved in my strengths. The science classes allowed me to see where I was strongest, which helped direct me toward something that I would be good at first and foremost. So the first step you want to follow is to follow your strengths. It doesn't matter what you think you want to do—it's about what you're good at. If you say you want to work your way up in the fitness industry, is that what you're good at? If you're not, don't waste your time. Redirect yourself and figure out what you're really good at. Maybe you're a great guitar player and should be a musician, or a great carpenter and that's what you should do. I think the mistake people make right off the bat is choosing something they enjoy. For example, saying you like to go work out is great. Running a business in the fitness industry or being a fitness professional is not the same thing as liking to work out, and that's a big mistake. They enjoy it and think they can just show people how to do it and it'll be great. Then they find out it's not fun for them—it's fun to work out, but not fun to try to get other people to work out. Whatever path you choose will be your path, not mine. The path you want to take first and foremost is one that emphasizes your strengths—that's where you want to go.

Reverse.

Take that thought and reverse the thought process.

So, which is why I'm kind of going back now to, What would I do with that? Like would I go with some kind of diagonal setup with a lunge? Like I'm trying to see, is that where a very wide stance would heal elevated squat would be?

I messed it up. Apologies.

Yes.

I was just lost in the universe questions and stuff like that. I have a question about overhead pressing. I feel like I have the caveman questions, you know? How do you list something?

Hey, Bill. So my question is, I have a 15 year old with an ORIF fracture of the distal right femur. You say femur? Yes, sir. Yep. So a world of five weeks in, this is our third visit with me. She has a real gnarly limp going on. So this last time that I saw her, she's having less pain. She's having a lot less pain than the first time, but the limp is still there. So the very first time she came in, the way that it looks is she's kind of leaning her trunk to the right. Her left hip is hiking up and kind of circumducting around. And so I put her on the table to take some measurements. And what I found was actually both Ober's test was positive, but it had actually less hip adduction on the right side. So the right side was actually felt stiffer being measured. Then, at 90 degrees, the right hip had a little more IR, about 15 degrees of IR. The left had less IR, about 10 or so. Then on the right side, it had about 45 degrees of ER, which was less than the 60 on the left. The left had more ER. And straight leg raise was on the right side about 60 degrees and on the left about 65. And so we worked on bringing her back first. We did some 90, 90 things. And then on the next session, we did some chopping.

So I am 30-plus years into this. Still trying to figure it out, still frustrated, still learning, right? It's just that I've made more mistakes, I've had more failures, therefore I've asked more questions. You can do the same thing, but you're going to build this—it's just going to take you some time.

That makes sense. Last piece that I thought of just going back to the four jump, from a ground contact time, if you get to the point of being so stiff that you've determined you're past your optimal from a performance and not being able to yield and get that elastic return anymore, I feel like I can make both cases in my head in terms of what's going to happen to ground contact time because I feel like it could get so stiff that it doesn't yield at all, just kind of like right back up, but not very high. So you get a shorter ground contact.

But again, they're going to be, as I said, they'll be accused of a lack of traditional hip extension more often than not.

So you're standing in front of me pulling from there. I'm going to get backwards.

Can you do that again? That was really special. Okay. Yeah.

Right.

Okay, so you've got some work here, young man. But the thing that I want you to understand is that you get her delay strategy. So this is an early representation solution everywhere, okay? So if you're going to teach her, if you're going to put her on her side, she's a wide ISA, put her on her side, start to teach her the early representations on her side, okay? You have to drive the early in the thorax, you have to drive the early in the cervical spine in the cranium, you have to drive the early in the foot. You cannot just look at this as a low back issue because chances are that's going to be the last place that you're going to get it because she's using a, she's literally created a bony position, right? That has less control over it because there's, there's no longer an intact constraint. So you have to get her from the top down. You have to get her from the bottom up. And then the last thing that's going to move back is going to be the spine.

Okay. So let's think about this now. So let's make this useful. If that's what you wanted to do, okay? So if you wanted to turn the chop into a representation of say like a middle propulsive representation, what would you, what would you want to do in regards to how much bend in your hip, how much bend in your knee and what foot representation would you want?

All right, all right. I should lead with the left hip.

Okay, but here's the difference. The first two elements are like a power lifter. So can you capture the position? Can you produce the force? Power lifters don't really have a time constraint. So if I do an 800 pound squat and it takes me 10 seconds to perform it, it still counts. I'm an offensive lineman. I don't have that kind of time.

You see it? Absolutely. Yeah.

Okay, so all of your options that you're using right now are viable. Assuming that you understand how you're positioning people, especially when you're trying to reduce the concentric orientation in the posterior lower, okay? So all of those are all viable. The asymmetrical hook line would be like in its simplest representation. If you started with both legs even in hook line and you bring one knee up to your chest, that's asymmetrical. So like if you were doing like a hook line cross connect, that would be the position that you would be in, would be the asymmetrical hook line.

I would question whether they actually have anterior posterior expansion versus are they just shoving the spine forward into IR. So just because you see what appears to be an expansion in the chest, if the spine is pushing forward, that's just the internal rotation representation. And then I just have to move the rib cage forward in response to that.