Okay.

To take the example, like the performance, you kind of talked about like a rehabby example versus a performance example where like rehab, it might be bring them all the way back, relative motions, and then layer on the compressive strategies as much as you can versus performance. You don't want to take it all away. So you're trying to bring them back slowly and figure out just how much can you take away.

Right?

Right?

Yeah. So, okay. But that's a better way for me to think about it. So that's cool.

Maybe so. Maybe so. But what you might end up with, and this would be potentially a little confusing, is you might go, but he's got a lot of hip flexion. Right? It seems like he might have more hip flexion than he should. Or he's got a little bit more straight leg raise than you thought he would have.

Yes.

Why weren't they the same?

I'm doing well. Up there you are. How you going? I'm great.

There we go. I tell you what, brother, we are out of time, unfortunately, okay?

So let's speak very simply first and foremost about the gradient concept, okay? In all of the universe, nothing can happen unless there's a gradient. So that's step one. That's the thing that I've got to have to grasp because literally if there's no differential, if there's no increasing element and ingredient, we can't do anything, okay? At one end of that spectrum, we've got this low pressure eccentric bias representation in the narrow archetype. And we have the opposing strategy of this higher pressure wide ISA bias. Okay. And so thank you for saying rise over run because I don't think I've heard that since freshman geometry. Because I don't know if anybody knows what you mean. We're looking at basically two hypotenuse when we're talking about the ISAs, right? And so your wide has a longer run than it does a rise and vice versa for the narrows. And so it stands to reason that because of those helical angles, they're going to behave differently. And so you're absolutely correct. And so when we're talking about activities, the greatest excursion and the greatest compression lies directly along that helical angle. And so we have to attend to those if that's the goal, if we want to stay on this maximal excursion. And so when we're talking about specific activities, if I was just to say simply, a wide ISA is going to be a better bench presser, and a narrow ISA is going to be a better overhead presser. And people will say, well, why is that? It's like because those two lifts approximate the orientation of the ISA much more effectively. The wider ISA individual has a lower potential for directly overhead reach. They have to create more compensatory activity, more strategy to get their arm into the same position overhead that somebody with a narrow ISA. So we always have to take that into consideration. I think in the email you were talking about a chopping activity or something.

It's actually in May.

Right.

Well, if you compare it enough, you don't like them.

It's like, so his toes, his toes do the, the, the, yeah.

After programming to see these outcomes, you say, oh man, it's like I gave somebody this one strategy to work on. It did great, and numbers went up, and everybody's all happy. And I tried to utilize the same strategy with somebody else, and it just didn't work—either not as well or it became interference.

Does that make sense? You see it? So my orientation, so basically you take the pelvis and you take the thorax and the abdomen and I lock it into one big piece and then I bend it and I create internal rotation and external rotation by bending it. I create enough space for me to move into. Because again, I don't need, I don't want anything that approximates full range of motion, because the more range of motion I have to control, the more energy I have to output to control the motion, the less energy I have to put into the bar to complete the lift. You see it? So like literally you're taking your ER field and you go, I'm gonna smash it as much as I can, but I still need enough motion. So I'm gonna bend you just enough. And I created just enough motion that I could probably take a breath. I could probably squeeze that. And then I got a socket that's oriented to such a degree that I captured just enough ER to finish the motion. You ever lift in a bench press shirt?

Oh, okay.

So then if it's ER, then is that what you would go after then is ER? If you were like, if you're training with a sprinter, it's like, if their ER field is bigger and that moment of ground contact is just that singular IR moment, do you start to then chase ER?

So again, you have to look at where it attaches. You have to look at the orientation of the muscle fibers themselves. And then, you have to also look at it in context. Okay. So if I fix the distal attachment, so VL comes down, it contributes to the quadriceps tendon, which attaches to the patella, the patella attaches to the tibial tuberosity, right? So if I fix the tibial tuberosity, right? So basically, it's basically putting your foot on the ground kind of thing. Put my foot on the ground. And I contract VL because of its orientation, because of its position. It's going to create an internal rotation force on the femur, but it doesn't cross the hip. Okay. So it's going to twist the femur inwards first. Then it's going to hit, I mean, eventually you run out of like bony capability, right? Like the bone can only twist so far. So the bone twists inward and then it's going to pull the hip with it eventually, right? unless you have another force that's acting on the other end, which is going to hold it into external rotation, which is really common. But that's basically what you're going to end up with. You do have a force that turns it into internal rotation. You also have the downward force into the ground that's going to contribute to that whole mechanism, too. But if we're just looking at VL and its behavior, it's going to provide you that type of a turn.

Right. So 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.

Thank you so much. So let's look at some exercise selection ideas for someone with a pelvis that's on a right oblique orientation. Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I have normal coffee in hand and It is perfect. Okay, it's Wednesday. That means that tomorrow's Thursday, which means that the Coffee and Coaches Conference call is back after a one-week hiatus. So I'm looking forward to getting back on those and seeing all those fine people at 6 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, 6 a.m. on Thursday. The link will be on my professional Facebook page if you're interested in joining us. I'm really digging the 15 minute consult videos that I'm doing. I'm having a great time meeting some really good people and it's much more fun to answer these questions in real time with them rather than going through email. So be prepared. I'm probably going to continue this for a while because like I said I'm having a great time. So today's Q&A is with Gerardo and I got to talk to Gerardo over the weekend. a coach in Miami and he had some some right-sided back issues that we were discussing and he does a really great job of describing. This is tremendous self-awareness in his part. He's doing a great job of describing what's going on and so it's very obvious that that he's on a right oblique orientation and so what I want to do is we'll cut away, we'll go through the call, it's very short. because he really got to the point and so we got some really good answers. But I'm going to expand on this. We're going to talk about a little bit more exercise selection for him. So, Gerardo, I hope you're watching because there's some other stuff that we didn't talk about on the call that I think is going to be useful for you. So, let's go to the call and then we'll come back and we'll talk about the exercises that you may want to continue with.

It's not helpful.

I don't know what I'm doing either.

Yeah it's supposed to come out in theaters I think in August.

Hey, hang on. I don't think it's diabolical. You don't. Hang on. It's there to help. If you don't have that, if Paul doesn't have this mystical dark force that lives inside of him, he can't stand up and he can't walk and breathe. It's not there to hurt you, it's there to help you, but you have to learn how to control it. This is a management and a strategy, right? Like we're taking advantage of these things. It's the people that lose their capacity to take advantage of it that have problems.

Of course I can. That's a late foot. Let's take a flat foot representation. 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. Now I'm going to take this flat 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.

It's going to be on your heel.

Given that the goal is to bring that side back, I guess it would be to go into the split squat holding the load and maybe releasing it to come up.

So I think you understand by your description, but the concept of time, absolutely.