Well, for me, a lot of it is RDLs.

Yes.

I mean, it was the ultimate fat loss workout.

Yes.

Looking at some deviations I'm seeing in people executing push-ups. They're running out of room and coming up with some pretty standard internal rotation strategies to get through it. I have a little bit of confusion when the arm is in a position behind the body. So let's say they're getting to the end of the push-up. Are we looking for anterior expansion there in order to complete that range of motion? Because trying to think of it as an early, middle, late representation in normal shoulder flexion, I get that. But once it is in a position behind the body, is that considered to be late as well? And if so, are we looking for an anterior expansion in order to get through that position?

Yeah.

In its simplest level, it is a representation that you have about how things behave and then how you interact with that. And it's the reason that we have to use something like this because we can't understand. There are too many influences. I mean, if we just talk about, let's just say that we're movement guys. Let's just say that everything we're aware of is about them. It's like, we don't understand it. We just don't. There's just too many things. There are some principles upon which we can rely because they are universal principles. Like everything has to follow physical principles. And so the more we understand those, the more we can try to understand how we demonstrate those principles. But again, we have to use a model because of the level of complexity, at least for me. It's beyond my understanding. There's going to be things that other people and they will understand other elements of this. But for me, it's virtually impossible. You just think about all the possible interactions. You've been in the purple room, and it's just like, even the color of the wall makes a difference. Sure. How much? I don't know. I try to create the home field advantage. But again, you just think about all the possible inputs, like air temperature, color, what their mood is, what they have for breakfast. All of these things are actually factors in creating an end result. We just don't know how much of an interaction they are. And so we have to have a principle-based understanding of what is possible. And then we apply that, we intervene, we observe, and we say, okay, based on my understanding of the principles, here's what just happened. Here's how I can influence this. And then it continues on and on and on. Everybody becomes their own N equals one experiment under those circumstances. And again, so a model is just a way that you represent the world and your understanding that allows you to interact effectively. We're going to be wrong. Right, because we know and you know, is this the point where I get to quote George box is that you have to summon him. I think that he's talking about models you gotta quote George box is like all models are wrong some are useful. And the idea is is is is the your model has to continue to evolve in its representation to allow you to be closer and closer to whatever the truth may be. And the way you identify that is like, so every time I enter being and I shift the probabilities in my favor, I'm getting closer and closer to what is the truth or whatever reality that we can actually see. And so again, the model is just a representation and some models are very, very extensive and some are less or so, yet many people can be effective with different representations.

But in most cases, you shouldn't have to worry too much about the ER element.

Yeah.

In terms of the whole thing, I'll probably just check it with you.

Exactly. So how do you produce a downforce when you can't produce a downforce? I create this really fast delay. My center of gravity goes over my foot, and then literally the mass of my body will push down into the ground. But I have to create the delay behind my center of gravity for me to be able to push down into the ground. Otherwise I would collapse.

Yeah. So you take a band and put it on a rack, squat rack or whatever, wrap it on with you.

Yeah. And so OK. That makes sense.

He's a big dude.

All right, because they're just oriented to the right still.

Yes.

Fair amount.

So if I was really trying to work on magnifying the ability to yield posteriorly on the lead leg, right? And I wouldn't want to advance the sacrum towards middle, right? That's when I would use my shorter amplitude stuff.

Yes, sir.

That's good. Yeah.

You move the feet away from the wall and you lean against the wall. I mean that would be this like so if you're standing upright and you put your elbow on the wall just move the feet away and you have now put them on an incline. So again, that's a gradual load instead of taking somebody and trying to do it on the floor for the first time. It's like you want to gradually introduce the amount of load. Right? So you just lean them against the wall or you lean them on your box like you can teach people how to do the side positions leaning on something versus being fully loaded on the ground. Right. All of those are lightened methods. You're just reducing the full load of gravity. That's all.

So let's think this through a little bit. He's sumoing and he's got a negative internal rotation representation on the right side. Squish front to back, hips are pointing out towards the sides and up. So you gotta bring him down and back on the right side first. If you were going to do this with a sled track, have you ever been in a wedding? Yes. Do you know how, like when they walk down the aisle and they go one step, step, and then one step, step, kind of like that? So here's what you do. You do the wedding march backwards with the sled, stepping back with the right leg only. So you go step back on the right, left leg comes to even, step back on the right, left leg comes to even, step back on the right, left leg comes to even. The way that you know that you're going to be successful is you're going to pick up internal rotation on the right side.

I can see. But you do like a one arm kettlebell swing and that probably feels really good, right? Yeah, because you got a little bit more turn to you. You're on a little bit more vertical, helical axis than like, if you and Dale, I'm picking on you Dale, I see it. I see it buddy. No, it's like, it's like, if you and Dale were both doing kettlebell swings, I'm watching Dale, I'm watching Dale all day, every day. You know, he's a kettlebell swinger guy because he's built better for it.

And so that leads me to a kind of a follow-up question I expected. The answer you gave is what I expected, so that's great. In respect to one of those videos, I think I was looking at you were talking about how a muscle can be lengthened at one end and sort of concentrically oriented at the closing end. I'm just trying to get my head around. Does that mean that, like, how is that, if you've got a muscle innervated, does that sort of determine how many innervation points are in a particular muscle? Does that determine how it might behave as far as whether it's sort of eccentrically oriented at one end or concentrically oriented if you want to call it that way or be it? Yeah, so how does that work?

But this is for. All right. So my, see where my thumb is? Thumb is there. So that's going to push the talus towards. You see it? Grab the calcaneus. I twist it this way. I'm pushing with my thumb. You see it? So I create them. I create a midtarsal representation with one hand.

Yep.

Yeah, sled drag. Say the implement is at the hip. Are you still getting that rotation? You're still getting that through the thorax as well, right?

Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Today is Wednesday. Tomorrow is Thursday. That means tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. we have the Coffee and Coaches Conference call. We'll have great questions and great people. Please join us. In a bit of a hurry today, we're very short on time, so we're going to dig straight into today's Q&A with Alec. Alec brought to us a case study. This is a great case study for a lot of reasons. It's one of those situations where we have a little bit of an older client with adaptations that are going to create some interference. So we have to create adaptations for them to overcome those limitations. And then we have to teach somebody to actually reduce the effects of gravity. We have somebody that's living at maximal effort—they're producing a lot of force into the ground. This is not someone that's going to benefit from the superficial loading that we would typically see with quote unquote training. And so this is a great situation for a lot of people that work with older clientele, which everybody will eventually work with because the older population is getting bigger and bigger as we speak. So Alec, thank you for bringing this case study. It's a really, really good one. It's going to help a lot of people. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman@gmail.com. Remember to put '15-minute consultation' in the subject line so I don't delete it. Please include your question in the email. Everybody have an outstanding Wednesday. I will see you tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. for the Coffee and Coaches Conference call.

Okay. And so hang on. So now think about how much space he has to turn. Okay. Not a lot, right? But there is some. So now you got to start thinking angles. And so you got to think about stance. All right. So I know where I can access some space. I could probably do a really short stagger with a wider stance. And now I can start to create a chop that's going to be a little bit more, almost in plane with the body, right? Because he doesn't have a big space out here, but I can create an angle that's going to start to promote some of the internal rotation that I'm going to need.

Once or twice.