Probably not. In terms of just like conceptualizing within the model, the difference between like insertional pain versus like mid portion within the Achilles. I'm thinking back to school and like we were never really provided with a reason is like why one pain might show up in one location versus the other is kind of just like a couple of considerations from a treatment standpoint. But like if I'm just even trying to like make assumptions about this presentation before like seeing this person, they're at the point where they're getting insertional pain. Would that be indicative that the bend has made it all the way down to the calcaneus as opposed to the twist just through the soft tissue?

And from like, what's the functional gain or like, what's the, it's a replacement of the ability to capture.

But if you want to keep them healthy, yes. If you want to move well and be comfortable and be happy and all that kind of stuff, yeah. But see, this is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the body building side of training is that the exposure that the muscle experiences during the activities has a very low degree of relative motion available because the excursion has to take place within the muscle tissue itself, otherwise it doesn't get exposed to the tension. So remember, relative motion feels good. There's no tension in it, right? And tension is one of the primary signaling elements of hypertrophy.

Yeah, kind of.

So what are you asking him to do when you lay him on his side? Shape change. Okay. So where are you putting him? Where does he have to be able to go to lay directly on his side? Let me help you here. Ever had those patients that come in and they go, I sleep on my side and I put a pillow between my knees?

Good morning. Happy Thursday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect.

So, you said that the prone hamstring curls or the prone activities can affect the descent, right? And yeah, and you also need an earlier pelvis. So if you're in prone and you're getting the late representation at the pelvis, it's going to affect the depth.

Are you talking to that one really quickly?

It's getting closer and closer together until they become one. There's the superposition or the superposition, right? So I have an ER representation to initiate the movement, but because I'm actually producing more force as I'm pulling, I am pulling it into a position where I'm going to superpose and then movement's going to stop.

And so they have to create a bunch of orientations. And so ER orientation out and up, IR orientation down towards the ground, right? It's not a lot of relative motion going on there.

Got it. That makes sense, okay.

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I'm glad I'm in a similar company.

Yeah.

Good morning. Happy Thursday. I have narrow coffee in hand.

With the collapsing.

I think that explanation was so good, it broke his computer. It got ejected.

So if his knees aren't approximating, then you can't get a pressure shift associated with gaining anything. So I mean, whatever you want.

I have to hold on to delay on the left as I do it, right?

For me, what I've always thought is that, and I've always said, is that if someone's never spotted before within three to 500 reps, I can have them spotted pretty well. If someone comes to me with really bad technique or bad movement patterns, it's going to take me five to seven thousand reps to correct it, maybe. Providing there's not a lot of interference. I mean, realize it's always variable, but just in general, right? So I've taken the approach for the last year. I've spent, I still spend two to three hours every day in the gym, but very, very little heavy loaded movement. Most of it's, you know, like I'll spend three hours today out there pulling light sleds, doing basically mobility and rehab work. That's because I got the time and why not? Right? And I can see where I've definitely made lots of strides, right? And I guess I just want to make sure that I'm thinking along the same lines. It's going to take me, I know how many years I developed devoted to heavy lifting is going to take me that long. I just, Yeah.

Yeah.

There you go. Yeah. All right. Like a subtle difference. But again, it could be that different.

No, but it's like, that's what I want you to see. It's like all of these things, all of the descriptions of the spinal mechanics that have shown up in literature are, it's okay, but they're trying to fit it into a planar model, which again, just creates a mass amount of confusion. If you just look at this thing as helical angles, it's like, boom, it becomes like crazy easy. You just go, oh, this one's going down and in this way. Guess what? If I turn it up and out this way, that moves them in this direction. And that's all you're doing. Right? So what you could actually do here, Zach, like just the quickest thought possible, a right to left, a cable lift. You see it?

Yup.

Well, it's helpful because it's like you're helping me connect some application to the principles. Like I didn't even think of doing a lean on the wall, or even on a high box—it's just, you have, you know, your arsenal of exercises that you try to break out.

That's a big fat maybe. But again, since you brought up sled drags, let's make that the solution for our discussion. It doesn't mean that that's what you would necessarily have to use. But if you want to use that, that's what I would do.

And you're going to start with a bilateral symmetrical stance. So the kettlebell is in your left hand. You're doing the kettlebell swing with your left hand in a bilateral symmetrical stance. Then I say, as you're doing this, 'Alec, take a baby step forward with your right foot.' Then take another baby step forward with your right foot and then another baby step forward with your right foot. Eventually you have to start bringing your feet in because the stance gets too wide. You can't keep stepping out sideways—you can only go so far. You go like this, and then you go like this, and then you go like this, and then you go like this. Eventually you're in line. So you think about the same thing with chops: how many angles can you do a chop? Do you realize that a chop is essentially a lunge?

And is that because they're compressed in the posterior, okay.

She says narrow is a rip.

No question.