You see how one is above and one is below? And then so it does this, right? You see the orientation? So the orientation, I say it's underneath the compensatory strategy because those are the forces that are driving this forward. And so the orientation that we would see associated with the pelvic position for a wide ISA is going to start there. As we start to push it forward, this segment goes, then this segment, then this segment, then this segment. The way you alleviate the compensatory strategies is reverse engineering the sequence in which they were layered upon. But if you're just talking orientation, it's going to be reverse engineered. So as I'm working on the pelvis, like my head is here thinking like, I got to reduce these strategies, okay? I'm reducing the orientation into reverse sequence.

Sorry, I don't mean to get so passionate about this, but this is a big deal. It's like people make up these generic rules of average. I don't work with anybody that's average.

Anyway, so the last couple of weeks we talked about opening to closed chain activities for realigning the hip, the femur and the tibia. I started thinking this week, you know, because we talk about the hip and the shoulder being the same thing.

Bookline and cross connects. I think we stick with a narrow situation. I was thinking about triangles versus rectangles. So in a narrow situation, sticking with a hook line cross-connect, thinking about the shapes. If I'm trying to have someone find their foot cues, let's say they can find their foot and all their stuff, they're good with that. I was thinking about the reach: they reach for the opposite knee. The question is: is it okay if they're bound down? I've always thought they need expansion. I know we're trying to bias expansion on the front of the right side. If they're reaching with the right to the left knee but are bound down and don't get much expansion, is that acceptable? I'm trying to think about the shape.

Yeah.

Well, I do. So yes.

Yes.

So with it being so long ago, what are your thoughts on your program that you wrote in here?

Is this something you could potentially draw or is that not?

Go ahead, Matt.

So the question for today is, I need you to untwist me, as you well know. It's funny because the more I'm getting deeper into the model now, the more the words he said to me four years ago keep coming back to mind. In the purple room, you looked at me and said, 'You're spinning.' So it's starting to make sense now why I'm spinning, but just in terms of narrow compression and training recommendations. I'm at a stage where I'm kind of done being very hard on my body, so I obviously need expansion. I'm still working my way through the type of exercises I should be incorporating. What are some of those recommendations for narrow compression? I know what's off the table: lateral pressing, overhead pressing, pull-downs, bench presses, and all that should be gone. But what else should I be incorporating to recapture some expansion?

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Yes. It has to. Like, you can't hold the congruence of the tibia and the femur and fully compress the knee without probably something bad happening.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

1,000%.

Perfect. Hey, Bill, I just wanted to talk about some instances where I think it's basically a straight plane solution to a rotational problem. But so sometimes when I see people lunge or they split with the front leg and the front leg collapses inward, one solution is to put a band around the knee to pull it out, pull it away.

Right. OK. So because of that pelvic orientation, you already get that posterior compression. And then so no matter what.

I'm looking at, I'm like, Does he just have like really big quads? No. Okay.

All right.

Nope.

Go ahead.

Yeah.

I think you can say that with a high level of confidence. Let's just think about this progressively. So the left side of the pelvis goes anteriorly, and external rotation starts to drop off. The center of gravity starts to go forward on the left. Internal rotation starts to drop off because of the anterior compression. But I hit the constraint, so the center of gravity can no longer go forward. I should have no internal rotation whatsoever. But I still have to push into the ground, so orientation starts to increase. The pelvis is already one piece and can no longer produce relative motions. So it starts to anteriorly orient more, which is going to turn the spine away. If it's a narrow ISA, where are they going to start turning?

Okay.

And you lean them against the wall.

Stick in the middle. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. It's like, that's why those attachments exist. That's why they evolved, I should say. Exercise involves, if you'll go, 'Oh, you're better at doing this.' It's like, they just didn't recognize the why. They just go, 'Oh, that looks better or that seems to be more effective or that feels better, right?' And then there's certain exercises that you do that just feel awkward as I'll get out. Yeah, horrible. You go, 'Yeah, I'm not doing that.' Your kettlebell swings are horrible.

It would be very hard to run and jump.

Right. And I would be going after the eversion of the calcaneus and I want to twist the midfoot in the opposite direction. Would that be right? If I invert the calcaneus, I have to invert the forefoot.