If there's no gradient, there's no movement. But if the gradient's too big, bigger reduction in force output, you see it? So powerlifting is like, how small can I make this gradient? Still get enough movement, right? That I can still produce my maximum force. And then eventually at some point in time, there is a genetic limit. You're going to hit it. Right. Hopefully that ultimate, I mean, you know, you're not going to increase force production forever. Everybody's going to have some sort of limit. You're going to break or you're just going to top out. Yeah. Not everybody gets to squat a grand.

It is pushed forward, but again, you have to compare what you're measuring against. What's our point of reference? Is our point of reference the relative position to the bench tipped backwards? Or is it the relative position of the thorax to the spine to the pelvis tipped forwards?

So far away you start.

Yes.

So what it looks like is that.

Mm hmm.

Maybe it seems like you're adding some complexity that you may not need. Okay, so I'm just going to try to focus on breathing.

Gotcha. You know what's so funny is I noticed when I was getting my warmups done, I was doing some Pogo hops. Let me see if I can show you. It's very dark where you live, Paul. Oh, there you are. So I was doing like some pogo hops. And I noticed, I don't know, the sensation that felt best was like feeling my, the top side of my ankle, I guess that's my tibia would come forward just like compressing and the medial heel. And then I started doing like hops like this. And I was like, Oh, that was great. So I think you're right on the money of like the right.

Yeah. Does she have a pool?

Talk about the tibia, like it's got to go forward towards that first met head.

Well, if you're utilizing the ramp, is there no change? Because it's already initially late.

But it would be nothing would be like in a concentrated manner. But for a lower qualified athlete, because their level of development is not so high, that might be the perfect stretch for them where they get exposed to a lot of different things. 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 four stuff. It just means that, okay, where is the volume of that fall where it could be on maintenance level? Like 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 you have like out of three days, you do, you know, two maximal strength workouts. And then for the next 10 days, the focus is elsewhere. And then you come back and then you re-expose them again. So you're preventing the decline of their fourth capability.

I would agree that you probably got to yard the tibia because when you make an isolated adjustment at the knee, you can alleviate the symptom. Are you solving the problem? Are you solving the problem?

Okay. 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. So that's the dirty little secret. So don't tell anybody I'm trying to keep this.

I'm actually looking for a picture of Terry. I got some.

So, the people who have a hard time with this, would those be the people with what you're just talking about, pressurizing the outlet, uh, sequencing it properly? Yes, sir. Wouldn't those be the people who essentially like pick its way back in the squad?

So get a picture of the calcaneus.

Right. Because the orientation might be just that strong. And then you've got the same question that we were going through with Zach when we're talking about the insertional stuff. It's like, okay, is this a top down or bottom up? Good morning. Happy Monday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. That is really good. Happy Monday. Got a basic one coming up. But first, housekeeping item. Ifast University, we have a call at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today. If you are not a member of Ifast University, and you would like to join us for this call, go to ifastuniversity.com, ifastuniversity.com. Get yourself signed up and join us for that call today at 1 p.m. It's usually a great group of people. A lot of good questions that come up in regards to training issues. Digging into this Q&A, this was Zach, and the background of this question is in regards to Achilles tendonopathy, but it points us in a couple of directions that are useful and important. Distinguishing characteristics between, say, an insertional Achilles tendonopathy, so this would be where the Achilles attaches directly to the calcaneus versus something that would be in the mid-tendon. These are not necessarily the same result, if you will, because of its location. And so we have to consider, do we have a top down or bottom up scenario in these situations that we often will talk about. But we also have to consider that all of your 99% stuff is the same stuff. So it's going to behave the same way. But it's going to provide us information as to where the greatest tension and pressures are arising from. And therefore, we would have to consider that. So if you have an insertional problem in the calcaneus, we have to look at the bony adaptations as well. We can't just blame the Achilles tendon for the problem. And so again, thank you Zach. This is going to be a great question for those folks that are dealing with such an issue or treating such an issue. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and I'll see you tomorrow.

Okay, I see.

So the difficulty then becomes that, for instance, depending on the way in which they execute a squat, a narrow stance will obviously be biased toward achieving a more vertical squat position than a wide stance would be, because they're supposed to, right? But if we're looking from a strength development perspective or a muscular development perspective, as we start to get more in line with a straight down squat, we're probably going to end up with a more quad-based squat as opposed to one that emphasizes the posterior chain.

Okay. You see where we're going with this?

Can I interject something? So an idea of mine was to lay him on his side. He did say he's uncomfortable in that position. Can you modify that?

Okay. You get a bunion. Like that's literally what a bunion is.

Oh, you're just going to make up for lost time?

Okay. Is she over the right side? Is she down on the right side?

Okay. So that's actually a really good thing because it's a nice representation of what's actually happening during the activity. So as you initiate the activity. So let's just say that I'm chopping this away for the sake of argument. I've got my right foot forward lead or something like that. I'm chopping left to right with my right foot forward lead. As I initiate the chop, that would be the greatest moment of unweighting. Can you understand that?

I am through the lumbar spine as well as the mix.

When in 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?

I see, I see.

Cool. Thank you. I'm going to take 30 seconds to show you how universal this principle is. OK. Music. OK. That's my thing. I sing. And I wrote a song. And I can't play the music that underlies the song, but I can sing the melody. I gave the melody to my friend, who is an amazing musician. And he said, 'Oh, I got it.' He just heard the song and knew what to play underneath it. And I said, 'How did you know?' He said, 'There's only so many options that are available.' And he said, 'You just know what to play because I can't play outside of these options, right? Or it doesn't fit.' Same thing. You only have so many options available. And so you're going to use those options in combination with the context of the activity. It's the same. This is a universal principle. As long as you understand the constraints, there are only so many options available. You do not have unlimited constraints. The archetypes represent constraints. There's only so many behaviors that each archetype has available to them. They only have so many strategies available to them. That's the value. That's the value. Because if you see everybody as the same, or you don't see the similarities, then you get lost because you think that everybody's different to a certain degree. There's no question about that. Like we get this broad range, but if we can categorize them, then that becomes helpful because then we understand what the constraints mean and then we understand what the limited options are. And then that guides us in process. You'll still be wrong, but you'll be right more often. That's the goal, right? Okay. Do you have a light bulb moment there, Cameron?