Yeah, like the hamstring curly things that we talked about.

Hang on. So you're throwing out some words here that we have to add meaning to. What is bound down?

After that point, Alex, I'm kind of lost. I don't really have any direction there. So, what do you think? What do you think the fibula does now?

I'm just asking what you mean by hamstring work.

In supination?

I don't know. I don't even remember what I wrote, so let me offer you this. So this is how programming works over time. Like if I write a program today, it's awesome. It's great. Does everything that I wanted to do. And then if I look back five or ten years, remember the scar I have on my forehead there. So because I'm at my desk, I have to bang it on the hardwood a little bit. And then after I stopped laughing at myself, you know, you sort of recognize the fact that, oh, I don't know what I was thinking there. Your thought process evolves, your programming evolves, right? I wouldn't say that it's a terrible representation of a program, but it's not my best work, because again, I've just evolved a lot since then. And again, this is me saying like, I don't even remember what I wrote. I can just tell you that it's probably not what I would write today.

You're really asking a lot from my artistic talents here. You have an ER to IR, ER to IR situation. That's what you got. So if you're looking like literally straight down through the hip socket, down through the femur, straight into the ground and into the foot from above, you've got a curve that goes like this and you got another curve that goes like that.

She's giving up her turn. Oh, man. What's the rule of the intensive? You can give up your turn one time, right?

Well, so under most circumstances, the superficial musculature is what creates the progressive increase of exhalation-based muscle activity, right? And so you have to recapture your ability to expand the ERs. So it's the reduction in concentric orientation. So activities that would do that. So this is one of the reasons why I like to get people down on the ground and roll them around so much is because it's like getting manual therapy done. So for you to roll effectively, you have to be able to reduce concentric orientation to do that. And so getting down on the ground, and we're talking about like any infinite number of ways to roll around. But this might be where you also need to get a little bit of help from a practitioner of sorts that can help you reduce that. And then it's a matter of follow-up with activities that promote the expansion. In most cases, because the compressions are anterior and posterior, this is why sideline short arc whirling and things like that is a great place to start for most people because it does allow them to conform to the ground. The internal forces are reduced because you're sideline. you're going to get anterior posterior expansion associated with the gut position as they're basically falling towards the ground as you're rolling around. So those are the beginner activities. If you got to do this on your own, it's like you got to get down on the ground. You got to start moving around. You got to you got to learn how to conform and relax into the ground versus thinking about force production and such.

So, one of the things I said when you spoke at the reckoning was, write out your model. No, seriously, write out your model. I took it very seriously and started the next week, which led me to creating pretty much everything that I do professionally now. It led me to write it out, which eventually turned into a book three years later. It turned into a seminar series that I teach. It was a hell of a process. The other thing is this concept of extrinsic knowledge becoming extrinsic and then returning to valuable intrinsic knowledge—that's how I see it. The other thing is this principle-based approach. I really wanted to hear more from you on your thoughts about creating a model or what models really represent to you. What is that?

So whenever I have somebody and they're gaining their knee flexion back and we're getting stuck say around 120-130ish, and I want to do something manual like tibial mobs anterior to posterior. Should I try to bias more towards the tibial ER in that case? Because we're moving to try to get healed.

Right?

So I would check her left foot's going to give you a little bit of a tell when she tries to turn to her left. Her left foot's going to give you some information as to how she's doing it.

Because they don't have the muscle activity to control, absorb.

So that it opens up and manually pull the knee into position.

Lamping it up.

These quads are that big.

But they initially might not be able to. When they do a step together, they'll step and then this foot will be slightly behind the other one.

Nope. Nope. Are they dry? Yes.

So you're going to have to pretend to be both. Okay. So we'll do one and then the other. Can you move back a little bit? Fair amount. Okay. Cool. It's just so we can see where your center of gravity goes here. So you're a narrow ISA. Congratulations.

OK. Rear leg, IR is going down. Yes. Because that's the more propulsive oriented leg. They're both propulsive. They're both propulsive. One is early, one is late, the distinguishing characteristic being the absorption of energy on one side, the production of energy on the other side. OK, just to be clear. So again, this is the connective tissue behavior in play, right? Because we've got ER representations on both sides. At the beginning, IR representation in the descent, if you will, if we're still talking about a split squat, just to be clear. OK. I'm saying this for everyone's benefit. Like, I know you know this. I'm just stating it out. OK. I took no offense. I didn't think you would. I was stating why I was stating it because I know some people go on. It's like, yeah, I know this. And it's like, oh, and there's some people going, oh, light bulb. Yeah. You never know. You just never know. OK.

You know, like what level?

Does that make sense?

Okay. How would you set that up with the feet?

And then I just thought like I doubted myself and I was like, let's go left to right. And then his hip pinched when he went left to right.

Right? Mine is actually pretty decent, but yeah, sure.

Well, I'm trying to think of a really good example. The first thing that popped into my head was the movie Awakenings when Robert De Niro was going through the loss of control of his body. And you see all these uncontrolled, sort of toxic movements. It's like it would be worse than that because you just wouldn't be able to consider all the motor units in a muscle in and of itself and then having them fire in this perfect sequence to create this perfect movement is just not possible. The connective tissues are behaving in an amazing fashion to allow us to produce what looks like coordinated movement.

The other way. All right. All right. Plus, I can drive some IR to.

Everybody goes, wow, let's do that. And it's like, no, you can't do that. You can't do that. You have to find your own path. And so again, it's like, I will happily tell you my story for entertainment purposes. I just don't think it's terribly meaningful.

To the sled drag?