Yeah, cool. And my last question is, what would be the conversion for that? So don't have a space in front of me. Okay, fine. I won't do a bear crawl. I'll go for an army crawl. Great. How do you make that happen with a lunge? Like a single leg activity?

Okay, what would be your indicator that that would be the first course of action?

Okay. Pick any element of energy systems that you are familiar with. And I'm familiar with.

Awesome.

Okay.

Okay. So you're seated? So take a little bit wider stance on the floor with your feet. Take your right or left foot, put it slightly in front of the other foot.

Yeah. She's trying to produce force in an ER representation. Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Yeah. A very busy Tuesday coming up. We're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Taya. Taya's a great foundational question. So a lot of stuff shows up in this. And it's a relatively short video, but we're covering a lot of ground here in regards to the two strategies, one plain concept. So ER and IR are always being present when we have compressive strategies. These are all exhalation based strategies. So we're going to lose ranges of motion associated with the compression. Where we lose it is dependent on where the compression strategy is. And so we go through an example of how we're going to progressively lose these expressions of movement options. And so, Taya, thank you so much for this question. You're going to help a lot of people because I think a lot of people get confused when we say that ER and IR are always present. How is that even possible? And so this answers that question to a degree. So again, thank you. If you'd like to participate in a 15 minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com, askbillhartman at gmail.com. Please put 15 minute consultation in the subject line so you don't delete it. And remember to include your question in your email. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday and I will see you tomorrow.

The representations become difficult sometimes because you can see part of it like it's really easy to see the neck representation when somebody's elevating their scapulae. It's very difficult to conceptualize the fact that the glenoid is changing its orientation. A lot of people wouldn't get that part.

I'm not sure about that part. What are you trying to recapture when you put the weight in the right hand? ER on the right, IR on the right. Yeah. So there you go. This is okay. Who are we talking about? Was it with the split squat? Was that Tana? Tana?

So does that mean that they're basically yielding too much?

The tick, tick, tick, I'll take that. I like that. Is that correct? I like it. That's good. Because I draw it that way sometimes. You draw the ticks? I do. Honestly, I don't make the sound. But I do draw it that way.

As I see it, I just have to get the ER of the femur so I could do it in early as well.

All right. I'll think on that. Thanks.

Okay. My mom has a lot of trouble with split squats. We've been just dealing with gravity. She's 88. Yeah, it's tough. Let's be honest, okay? She's more of a box squatter than a split squatter, but point being, point being is for her, her body mass is a significant challenge. Therefore, she would use less relative motion in that activity. I would expect it to be less and I would expect her perception of the activity to be more difficult. Right. As she becomes more skilled as her force production would increase the relative magnitude of that exercise is reduced. She should be able to access more relative motion now you know why you train athletes. I want ultimately, right? I want them to have more relative motion at higher percentages of effort, so they can distribute forces and loads as they need to, until they need peak forces, which I know right away they're going to lock everything together as they should, right? But I don't want them to walk around, you know, just walking around should not be, you know, a sufficient stimulus to restrict relative motions. But your recognition is on point. Absolutely. Absolutely. Let's just say that your PR back squat is 100 kilograms for those of you on the metric system, because I'm an American and we don't use the metric system, but we're going to talk in kilograms. Okay. So you do a hundred kilogram squat and you train and you train and in two years later, you do a 200 kilograms squat. And you put the hundred kilograms back on. Do you think you have more relative motion with the hundred kilograms than you used to? It's easier, right?

You get it?

She's creating a new one immediately, probably.

I'm struggling here.

Okay. Now take your left scapula and push your hand forward on the left. Is it early, middle, or late?

I'm going to speculate here because I know nothing about the position. My son played football until high school, but he was always defensive back or running back. He wasn't playing the line. But this position, I'm assuming what the offensive line is trying to do is what you just said: get up under the pads and lift that guy up so he's not applying force into the ground. Correct.

Yeah.

So one of the things I've been kind of wrestling with lately at work is I'm on the neuro team. The majority of my caseload is neuro. So I've been trying to find a way to make the model more cohesive within my treating. So one of the things I noticed is that a lot of my caseload will be seated most of the time throughout the day, and they have a lot of what appears to be an eccentric orientation along, say from T7 down to the sacrum—it's very rounded. So if I look at their measures, they appear to have a lot of ER and very, very little IR is what it appears to be. So I'm thinking of incorporating back strengthening, like things that they could do at home, like prone positioning to try to improve their upright posture, understanding because they seem to be very rounded. And that's one of the things I've been wrestling with. Then finding ways to progress them against gravity, since they don't have that much time standing up against gravity. Do you do mat work with them? I do, yeah. I've done rolling with them. I try to have them do it at home, especially if they have a caregiver getting them up from the ground.

Yes.

So I have to create a turn, okay? So they're in an ER representation to initiate. Back foot moves through ER to IR to translate the weight forward. The lead foot has to create the high force into the ground. So right through middle, there is the compression where the highest force is initiated, so that's still going to be max P into the ground. Just like taking a step forward, max P, where everything stops, I have conservation of momentum that creates the turn. So I have to create the turn. There's still a turn that is created to allow the velocity to be demonstrated in the punch. So I have to create the delay strategy on the side opposite. So I'm moving from max IR towards ER, which means I will still demonstrate more internal rotation on that side, but I'm moving towards ER. This side is moving from max IR towards ER. Okay, but in the late strategy, which allows force production to be translated forward. So again, it's just like walking. Both sides are still moving forward just at different rates. And then this one demonstrates the higher velocity.

Yeah. So remember, delay is not, there is a delay in early, for sure, right? Because that's where you start to initiate slowing down that side with internal rotation. But if I'm still applying internal rotation into the ground, I'm certainly not moving at peak velocity now, am I? Right. Right. So that's, I'd still slowing down. So you can create the delay in all Grounded activities, right? Gotcha. Thank you. Outcomes are just outcomes. They're just telling you what happened under the circumstance. Good morning. Happy Friday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. We got it very busy Friday. We're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This was a discussion with Alex from yesterday's Coffee and Coaches Conference call. And we were talking about the delay strategy that's associated with early and what happens when you don't have access to that because you lack relative motion to pause. So real quick, let's just review this. So when we talk about the early representation, if I was to be stepping forward, say with my left leg as such, and the medial heel comes down, first minute tarsal comes down, and I have a sacrum that should be moving backwards, backwards on the ilium into counter-nutation, and that's an ER representation of the pelvis, that represents the fact that we do have relative motion available to us. But what if we have the superficial compressive strategies in play, we don't have that relative motion available to us. Man, we still have to create a delay strategy because I have to slow that side down. So as I make contact with the ground, that side of my body is going to have to slow down to allow the other side to advance as I'm stepping forward. So the question is, where is this going to show up? How is it going to measure? Are there any other ways that we can identify the compensatory strategy? And so yes, there is. And so this is where our complex movements really come into play and allows us to make comparisons and to identify where these compensatory strategies occur. I'll give you a hint. It's in a squat. But I'm going to let that show up in the discussion as we go through this. And if you'd like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com, askbillhartman at gmail.com. Put 15-minute consultation in the subject line. Please include your question in the email, and we will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding weekend. Podcasts will be up on Sunday. Don't forget to go to the YouTube channel and subscribe there. And I will see you next week.

Okay. Cool. We've actually talked about this. I think Manuel asked the question about variability, I think a while back. So do you understand what variability is first and foremost as far as is it being applied to the movement?

Okay. So let's start with a simple representation. I'm punching you repeatedly in the face and it hurts. And so your treatment strategy is I'm just going to punch you harder in the face and that will solve the problem. Okay, how's that working for you?

In regards to which, um, the hip, uh, which when you say greater, you were mentioning ranges of motion.

Okay. And a quick follow-up on that, because you mentioned Jen's call, as she's dealing with pictures, I've read another article about the torsion of the humorous in pictures in their dominant arm, which is significantly different. So what you stated, those people are taking a snapshot at one day, and they say that's how it is. If you're looking about a longer period of time, like say three or five years period of training, that's exactly where I could get those bigger or lasting changes in somebody who might have any limitations.

Right.

So given that we're just talking about the costal diaphragm, that scenario. Yes, there's a whole other part of the diaphragm that's more posterior. Yes, sir. And so those will respond relative to the position or in relation to the sacrum. So if the client has the nutated sacrum, right, they have the relatively ascended pelvic floor. Okay. And let's be really specific here.