Getting the pelvis in the correct position and—how do you know it's in the correct position? Well, that would be a good question.

So that's normal. It's a normal circumstance, right? It's due to the limited adaptability that you do have. So the activities that you're going to want to choose are the ones that restore your ability to be more adaptable. So you're a big strong guy, which means that you've got a lot of concentric muscle activity. It means that you've got a lot of compressive capabilities. So you can pick up heavy things, right? But eventually you have to give something up in return to be able to do those things.

Anyway, go ahead. Okay, so last week I asked you about how to counteract this ghost that's just pushing me from left to right and keeping me stuck in these internal rotation foot representations. As I'm trying to ramp up my sprints for the vaulting, I can feel my Achilles starting to hurt again. As I'm moving my step back, I just feel like it's the same as yesterday when I went vaulting and didn't have such a great day because the sensitivity of my Achilles was keeping me apprehensive from being powerful through the takeoff. I followed your advice—I didn't keep pushing through. I stopped, started with my cross-connects, and felt like all week after last week's call I had some restored blood flow to the area, just like all kinds of good sensations from doing the cross-connects. But then I think yesterday I'm just not ready or I was trying to translate the sensations or whatever changes I made from the cross-connect to the more dynamic sprint down the runway to vault, and I think I was losing it because I would drop down to do a drill and just feel like my left hip was driving right. I also noticed the sensitivity in my Achilles changed from insertional to more mid-body, which I think means we're undoing a little bit of the twist, but there's still a serious twist going on. So what I was hoping you could do for me today is cue me through a right cross-connect, just to make sure it's not the cross-connect position, since I feel like I'm being successful with it. I just wanted to make sure.

If you can get her upright in a reduced gravity situation, you might have a shot. Well-supported suspension cables, like whatever it is, but you guys got to be thinking like an early representation because I don't think she has the capacity to absorb energy. Cause what think about, think about why she would have the symptoms. The symptoms are her attempting to compress more in a compressed state. So you got to start from the expanded representation. She just doesn't have capacity. Do you have a pool?

Put the right foot forward.

Okay, so that's going to happen most likely.

Yeah, yeah. So that becomes useful because what he's doing. And if anybody hasn't, it's if you look up vertical integration, you'll be able to find what we're talking about. He's exposing the athlete to all of these adaptations that need to be present. The question is, are you in a developmental stage of that? Or are you in a maintenance stage? Or, like I said, are you just trying to slow the decline of it so that there's enough of it present for performance level? And that's kind of what you got to figure out. And it's going to change depending on the level of your athlete. Right. And so this is where you run into that concurrent development versus concentrated loads. And the higher the level of development of your athlete, the more concentrated load needs to be because the windows of opportunity are smaller. Okay. From a structural standpoint, like you could do everything that we just talked about in a workout. But nothing would be in a concentrated manner. But for a less qualified athlete, because their level of development is not so high, that might be the perfect scenario for them where they get exposed to a lot of different things and they can promote a lot of different adaptations all at the same time. All right, but as they progress, that's where you start to see these big differentials where now I need to go through a block of training that might be on maximal strength development or another block of training where the greatest degree of emphasis is on restoring movement capability. And it doesn't mean you don't do the high-force stuff. It just means that, okay, where does the volume of that fall? Like, where is it at a maintenance level? How many exposures does an athlete need to maintain? How much volume does this athlete need to maintain? And that's where there's individualization that runs into a problem, especially when you work with big groups. But that's the reality. Right? So maybe you do a maximal strength exposure. Like, out of three days, you do two maximal strength workouts. And then for the next 10 days, the focus is elsewhere. And then you come back and re-expose them again. So you're preventing the decline of their force capability.

OK. You see it?

Yeah. So there you go. There's the sequel. It's the club head. Look at the club head as the club head turns face. You see it on the inside now, don't you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's, that's the dirty little secret. So don't tell anybody I'm trying to keep this.

Yeah. So that's kind of like having an older brother. So you have to find a way to breathe through it. Right? So one of your final strategies, if not the final strategy, is to try to create a space to breathe in. And that space would be created by pulling your sternum down towards your pubis and bending your spine, which would create a little bit of space on the posterior aspect of the thorax. Okay? And this is what gets branded as the K word. Yeah? And so if you keep squeezing that space, it doesn't get better. All you keep doing is pushing yourself down, pushing yourself down, pushing yourself down. So this is the drawback of prescribing I's, T's, and Y's to the wrong person. It doesn't mean that they're not useful. It doesn't mean that they're not helpful. You just have to prescribe them at the right time. Right? And so if you expand that space, the rule is you will move in the direction of expansion. Okay, so we recreate the anterior-posterior expansion in the upper thorax and Terry goes up. And I actually have proof of this because Terry is very meticulous about his healthcare and he actually had a physical in the midst of the Terry project and he got taller because they were remarking on his physical at his age. I think he was 63 at the time. And they said, 'We've never had anybody get taller between their physicals. What have you been doing?' And Terry talks a little bit of a southern accent. He talks really fast like this. And he says, 'Well, you know, I've been doing these exercises, and I'm trying to improve my posture.' Right? And so, but that's the basic premise: the compression is going to push you down. That's what compression does, right? Think about it: increases your density, you're going down. If you expand it, you reduce density, that goes up. And so that's why we saw the turnaround in his outcome. He was just doing, he bought a generic program that promised something that it cannot promise because you don't know who's going to be doing the program. And that's why you have to be particular about structure and an understanding of how these strategies are applied and then what the resultant behaviors are going to be. Does that answer your question?

So, and again, this is if all you got to do is like take anybody into the gym and when you're trying to figure out like how high the box needs to be for them to push through the middle range of a squat without a delay. You can see them push through it. That's the same thing that we're talking about here. It's like, this is how you make sure that you have an outlet that's pushing up and not getting pushed down by the AP compression. Because like I said, you're going to squeeze. You have to compress to lift heavy thing. There's no other way around it. But you got to start with the gradient. OK.

You know what the sustentaculum tali is?

Maybe, maybe so. So with the orientation and such, that would be the thing that you would probably have to figure out. You would do your active intervention first, right? You give them an opportunity to make the changes that you want. If you don't get the relative motion back, then you might need some help. Because the orientation might be just that strong.

But I shouldn't treat you for it because it's an adaptation and that's going to take away your.

Well, they're gonna have more chance of getting better internal rotation going straight down.

So, late IR would be your arm down by your side. Early IR would be reaching forward.

A to P.

I don't remember. I'm really old. I think it was, if you get too much tibial femoral ER in late ER. You get a bunion. Like that's literally what a bunion is.

And I got off track with our humor.

So if there's a right, this is a right leg and she has no internal rotation on the left side. On the right side, she has no internal rotation.

Okay. What typically happens in regards to your ERs and IRs when we stop motion?

All right, cool. That helped.

Okay. So literally, they're already moving into that late representation because the forced demands are so great. So they reduce the relative motions almost immediately and they're lowering themselves into the push-up. And you've seen this, right? The people that do push-ups like that, right? So all they're doing is creating an anterior orientation and you see their chin, right? They use their chin to do push-ups. And then the booty, and then the booty sticking up in the air. Unless they, unless they, unless they grab the $100 bill with their behind, right? And squeeze that closed. I'm sorry, you're cutting out a little bit.

Okay. How much compressive force do I have against the sacrum in prone versus supine? When a moment of blood football. So when we're trying to capture an early representation, do we tend to put people in prone or do we put them in supine? So that means that the load that's distributed through the connective tissues would be distributed. And so if I'm trying to get a focal shape change, a very specific shape change. So I'm trying to emphasize the proximal femur shape. Literally, I'm trying to emphasize the proximal femur shape. And the pelvis orientation, but that comes second. So did you hear that?

They want you to get to a certain range of motion by a certain date.

But when you talk about the process of moving the center of gravity through space in regards to controlling forces, we know that we're going to see this oblique orientation. I know where the center of gravity is going to go. I know where they're going to end up, because I know that because there's only so many options that are available.

Yes. And then the ER is going to lift the foot up, but the metatarsal head stays down longer.

Yeah, you don't need to delay as much, exactly.

That would be you're trying to produce an internal rotation at the hip.

Germany. Okay. Do you have coins? Do you still have coins?