So again, where you were applying pressure through the hip and the pelvis, literally changed the shape that reduces the need for the anterior orientation. So all of that concentric orientation that you had that was compressing the femur into IR, gone. Well, mostly gone.

Yeah. So how do they do it?

Coincides with normal tidal volume. Okay. Not forced inhales and exhales.

It depends on what you're chasing. So if I put something in their back and I pull on their leg, where is the movement going to take place?

Yes, we have.

It's not different. It's all the same thing. Technical aside, why do I always use the term propulsion instead of saying what about gait? I talk about propulsion because everything is the same. The rules are just a form of propulsion. Why? Because that's exactly the same strategy that I'm going to use when I get off the box and I'm pushing through the single leg. It's the same strategy that I'm going to use when I'm taking a step forward and pushing through the ground. It's all the same stuff. So the box squat that we just gave Alec is a form of propulsion. Walking is a form of propulsion. Rolling is a form of propulsion. They follow the exact same rules. What do you think a low oblique sit is? It is a shortened representation of a roll, which is a representation of a step forward, which is a representation of a step up. You see it? It's all the same. You only have so many options. My constraints are fixed. I only have so many ways that I can move through space. I'm going to use the exact same strategies under all circumstances. If I had full availability of all of my movement options, I'm going to use the same strategies. You just have to see it based on the orientation of the body relative to gravity as to where those show up.

Okay, you're gonna see the differential mechanics, okay? You're gonna see the IR, so if we're talking about a bunion, we're talking about the IR at the metatarsal and then the ER at the- I'm getting the other representation with the white, right?

Exactly, exactly. Yeah.

So if you're doing like a right leg board split squat, you see the knee move medially, which is associated with the orientation. But again, using the leading resistance strategy would require that you actually have access to hip internal rotation on that side for it to be effective. Otherwise, if you were to create that, you're going to increase the amount of anti-rotation because they don't have any internal rotation to play with, so they have to create more. You won't get that, you won't get the result that you want.

Okay. So as you sit down into the deepest portion of that squat, the band is not something to push out into. It's something to prevent you from bringing your knees together. It's to create a fixed femur representation so the pelvis can move. When you put something between somebody's knees, it's so they don't pull their knees apart and do what I just said. So they don't push your leg oriented. So they don't increase the concentric orientation. It's not about magnifying the muscle activity. It's about reducing the muscle activity.

No, not yet. One of the things you can do in an oblique sit. You ever do like a heels elevated squat? Do you know what that representation is in an oblique sit? Let me give you a hint. Greater trochanters to heel, lateral knee in contact with the surface is the first met head. If I was going to do heels elevated, what would it look like? You know, no obliques.

Okay. Which hand is holding the weight for that?

Here's the thing. Don't try to start this argument in school because you won't win. If you try to answer this correctly on the test at school, you'll get the answer wrong. Let them have their way. Understand their rules that they want you to learn and then learn reality. That makes you much stronger because now you can argue favorably for reality with a legitimate argument versus just going, oh, but it's not levers. And then they'll say, well, how can you say that? You go, well, because bones don't touch. And you say, well, where's your evidence for this? It goes, 1980, Japanese study, blah, blah, blah, but Bill said, don't use me as a reference. Please don't use me. I really don't want that phone call.

What you should feel is that you feel the weight on your left foot should go towards the metatarsal heads.

Yeah, okay. That's what I was curious about. So my question is a follow up from a discussion that you had with Dale last time about the sled drag. You realize we're talking about the position of the belt on the Ilium versus on the trochanter. And you're saying, you know, you're getting IR based on that placement, you're getting IR approximately if you have it on the Ilium and a little bit more distally if it's on the trochanter. And so then my question is, you know, based on you know from a powerlifting or weightlifting perspective, what's the, what's the difference slash utility slash scenario where we would want to differentiate between the two? Okay. You want to use those.

Everything.

Can I stop you? Because this is, that right there is a great question. That right there is a great question. Okay. So let's use that representation. So standing upright, left foot on a box. Okay. Right leg is representing middle propulsion on the ground. Right? Yes. Okay. What joint is being emphasized?

OK.

Okay. Because when we did the side one, it started impinging left to right, so I stopped them. Then we went right to left for a couple sets. He said he felt a lot better, but he accidentally did something, you know.

Yeah, yeah.

Gotcha.

Okay, all right. So they pounded you with energy systems, right?

Okay. Do they have like the hemigate where they, they lock the knee back as they walk?

So now I'm like, all right. I venture to say she's a wide, she does perfectly fine with deadlifting, but I'm just trying to figure out what are we trying to restore at the foot?

Leak axis. My stance is going to be a little bit wider and I'm going to stagger it just a little bit so I can internally rotate into inside of the base of support.

But the solution is she needs the IR representation. She needs to acquire the pelvic orientation and then the hip joint IR.

Protraction and retraction are the extremes of the upper thorax compressive strategies, right? Because the scapula is just going to—you're squeezing everything together and the scapula has to go up. Like again, it's just following the shape at that point.

Okay. Now the question is, why did she choose to do that? Where can she not produce internal rotation? Where can she not produce internal rotation into the ground? Yeah. You got a femur fracture and you said it was an ORIF. Yep. Okay. So they stuck a rod in her femur. So now you have to say, well, what's the orientation at the knee? How much relative motion do I have at the foot? How much relative motion do I have at the pelvis? Okay. It may be, is she, does she still have symptoms like she's still painful?

They would just fall down too quickly.

Yes. And then it reverses gears. So you're, again, this is pulling back the bow string, if you will, right? That's my yielding action. And I hit max P and then everything spins in the opposite direction towards the release of the energy. Right? And then that's my late representation that carries me through the remainder of that step.