So where is the larger superimposition of ER coming from? Okay, so you've got to capture more internal rotation approximately, otherwise you can spend days trying to change things at the ground and it won't matter, right? Okay, well, let's just talk about the lower leg for a sec. All right, so if I fix your foot to the ground, so I'm gonna take my hand, and I'm going to fix your foot to the ground, but you're going to twist your tibia into ER. Do you know the muscles that are attached to the lower leg?

Okay, I gathered that based on your description, but my point is that certain movements and behaviors are associated with the inhale versus exhale representation. You try to associate those within the context of the exercise itself. It is dependent on the movement. For example, if I was doing a cable chop, when the arms are up here, I would cue inhalation, and as they chop into the end position, I would cue an exhalation because that's how you would move into that position naturally. It is still a force-producing position to move into that position. If I wanted to drive an inhale representation at the end of that position, then I would cue another breath to breathe in. So it could be inhale, exhale into position, inhale in the position, exhale on the return.

Okay. Conceptually, high force production is in the middle, it's middle propulsion, right? And max would be like the point where it's maximum force, right? And then velocity is demonstrated in the ER representation. Okay. Okay. So if you understand a little bit about walking, you will understand the punch. Okay. So a punch is delivered at about 1200 degrees per second. That's pretty fast. Okay. But it's not nearly as fast as like throwing a baseball or something like that. So baseball is 9,000 degrees per second.

That makes sense.

Yeah, I still have to delay the right side. It's still forward and that's why I've lost the IR.

Yes.

And if you understand this, yeah, I think I've seen in your simple solutions. Yeah. I think I've seen your simple solutions where I think you do like a bent over, like, I think it's a tricep extension or a curl. I can't remember which one, but you're basically your shoulder is internally rotated. And then I think you're curling with it, but you're getting expansion. But you were wearing a hoodie, so you couldn't see anything.

Yeah.

Okay, all of them the same No

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So if you're going to say flat, let's just say that we've got dorsal rostral compression. Is that fair? Okay. It doesn't matter which archetype you're talking about. The dorsal rostral compression occurs for the same reason because of these superficial strategies. So it is outside the direct representation of either archetype. Both have superficial musculature. Both will use it for the same reason. It just might happen at a different time because of the sequencing that is associated with the archetypes themselves. So they have very specific strategies that are associated with their structures. Because if we looked at the two extremes, like the extreme wide and the extreme narrow, they hold their position in space by two different strategies. So you've heard me probably, if you've seen my videos, you know that I talk about two strategies in one plane, right? So the strategy is expansion or compression. But for us to maintain our position, eventually everybody will move towards compressing to hold position in space, especially at the extremes, because what we're trying to do is we're trying to remain upright on two legs against gravity. And everybody thinks that's an easy thing because you've been walking around since you were one year old. But the reality is it's a continuous circus act. It is very, very difficult, so difficult that we are the only animals on Earth that do it to any reasonable degree of success. So again, it doesn't really matter which archetype you're talking about. What I would do is I would go back, there's a couple of videos where I talk about the progression of the superficial strategies. And so what you probably want to do there is just distinguish as to when that representation would be demonstrated based on the two archetypes.

All right, I'll see you on iFestU and then on the coffee call. Thank you. Good to see you. We have people that are great accountants and not great basketball players because they recognize very early on that they don't have these physical capabilities. It doesn't mean they can't enjoy playing sports; they're just not going to be in the NBA. Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. Today's Wednesday means tomorrow is Thursday, which means it's 6 a.m. tomorrow morning for the coffee and coaches conference call. Always a great group of people with great questions; we get more every week. Please take the opportunity to join us. I realize it's early, but sometimes you have to embrace the struggle. Today's Q&A comes from Hamish, who asked about how gradients apply to movement. We can do nothing without these gradients. We took this concept and applied it to the extremes of my two archetypes, the wide ISA and the narrow ISA archetypes, and related it to how this will influence performance-related outcomes. This will be a useful call for many who still have questions about this gradient concept. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to AskBillHartman@gmail.com. Put '15 minute consultation' in the subject line. We will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Don't forget that all videos get posted to the YouTube channel. If you're looking for something from the past, like the impingement or push-up videos, go to YouTube and subscribe to access them. Have a great Wednesday. I'll see you tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. for the Coffee and Coaches Conf. Let's go. We are recording. Timer has started. Hamish, what is your question?

Well, thank you. It's that boy. You're like way early, like a month, but this month.

Yes. If you're looking at a general population client and you're assessing whether or not there is some sort of compressive strategy at, I don't know, let's just say the posterior hip or something like that. Is it necessary to just look at the movements and have a degree of experience with seeing these things to identify that that's there, or are there things that are just visual? Are there things that are definitions where it's like, if this segment does this or if this toe does this, does that exist? Or is it just simply the trained eye?

Yeah, and that goes against the common paradigm of trying to strengthen your weaknesses and to bring up your... So people confuse undeveloped potential for strengthening weakness, okay?

And so I layer in the cable chops and the lateral lunges. And all of our planks are now offset, trying to increase the turn into the right side. And I was just wondering if I'm on the right thought process. And like the way I test retest things is with like a shoulder wall flexion test. And I've seen like marginal improvements, but I feel like the sprinting is interfering with the recapturing of range.

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Into the bench. What does that orientation create for me? This will create, if I tip you backwards, if I tip you backwards, okay. Let's just, have you ever measured extra orientation? Yes. Yes. So the orientation. So I took an orientation that was down into the ground and I took part of it and I tipped it backwards, right? And that creates an ER space for me to move into. It's not a very big one, but I don't need a big one. I just need enough to move the bar this far to finish my lift.

Okay. Yeah. Cool. What other questions do you have?

Nothing.

Okay, excellent. We'll see you there. Happy Thursday. I have neuro coffee in hand and It is perfect.

So the thing about it depends on what we're doing, right? Right. If you look, all you can do is go to Google Images and pull up a bunch of chest x-rays and you'll see an asymmetrical representation internally. Some of this is due to abdominal contents, and then it's about pressure management and position management. And so you'll see degrees of this asymmetrical representation, but you'll see some that actually look quite symmetrical as well. And so again it's going to depend on some of your structural elements and then also again movement behaviors because we have to push abdominal contents around and we have to control the position of them as they are creating all of these momentums and turns inside. And so again, I talk a lot about this non-uniform representation of the diaphragm under most circumstances because of the shape of the abdominal contents, the position of the abdominal contents and gravity. That's what's going to produce a lot of this asymmetrical representation. Both sides will go down, but you can find research on this. They actually studied the position of the diaphragm. And you'll see that under certain circumstances, you'll see a limited excursion on one side versus the other. So there's nothing unusual about it. But to get caught up in degrees of things, I don't think I'd worry too much about it. Just understand the general representations and as to how that might influence how we move the air volume around inside so we create these shapes and turns and such.

All right, man.

Got it. You got it.

Hey Grace, can I let you know a secret? I don't know what I'm doing either.

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It's not even like a gradient. It is a gradient. Absolutely a gradient. In fact, it's the only way that you can do it.

Okay, so right away I know I don't have the normal middle propulsive IR representation of the foot to push into the ground with. All right. So if I start from the ER representation, can I have an ER representation that has very little relative motion in it? Of course I can. That's a late foot. So let's take a lady art foot. We could use Ian's question as a little bit of a representation here. So you remember the spine that we were talking about? And it didn't have relative motion and it did it. And then if I wanted to push on the peak of the house on their back, would I be pushing into relative motion? No, absolutely not. So now I'm going to take this late representation of a foot. I'm going to distribute the load in front of the ankle so I can still create one point of contact in that foot. Because it has to move into a single point of contact for me to push into the ground effectively. Because if I'm pushing through distributed points of contact, I am uneven and very unstable. So now take the ER foot and get enough weight in front of the ankle through shifting the center of gravity and bend the foot into a position that creates one point of contact. That is your IR. That's your IR compensation.

You know, gain might be, you know, gain like either measures in that case.

Yes. Okay. My confusion is that as we're coming out of the split squat, we are enhancing their capability to create the overcoming action. That is correct. On one hand, it seems like it might be interference. On the other hand, although we are enhancing the capability to create the overcoming action, that left side is still less overcoming than the right because of the load, relatively speaking.